SoftBank, Grab and Petros Explore a Borneo AI Corridor
SoftBank, Grab and Petros, Malaysia’s state oil company, have signed an agreement to explore building artificial-intelligence infrastructure in Sarawak, the Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. The three parties…
Samsung Puts a Dollar-Coin Wallet on 82 Million Phones
Samsung said it would fold U.S. dollar-coin transfers into its mobile wallet, a step that puts a form of crypto-based money in front of tens of millions of Americans who…
Intel and Applied Materials Team Up on the Next Chip Process
Intel and Applied Materials said they would expand a research partnership to jointly develop the process technology and materials behind the next generation of AI chips. The announcement, made on…
IBM Advances in a Pentagon Race to Build a Reliable Quantum Computer
The Pentagon has a simple question about quantum computers, and it has been asking it of the companies that build them: can you prove the machine actually works? IBM cleared…
Biohub Recruits Google, Meta and Washington for a $1.8 Billion Cell Atlas
The plan sounds like science fiction until you see the budget. A research institute backed by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, is spending $1.8 billion to build a…
Google Opens Its AI Watermark Detector to Everyone
For three years, Google has been stamping an invisible mark on the images, video and audio produced by its AI systems. Now it is letting anyone check for that mark.…
Amazon Cuts Corporate Jobs Again, a Narrow Round in Retail
When Amazon trims corporate staff, the company usually names a big number. This time the number was small, and the company appeared to want it that way. The e-commerce giant…
SK Hynix’s Solidigm Taps Goldman and Morgan Stanley for a 2027 Listing
The investment bankers who spent late September pitching for a piece of Solidigm’s initial public offering got their answer this week. SK Hynix’s NAND-memory subsidiary has chosen Goldman Sachs and…
Anthropic Cuts Prices With Haiku 5.5 as It Nears an IPO
The model arrived on October 7 with a price tag attached to the announcement, which is not how Anthropic usually introduces its products. Claude Haiku 5.5, the third model in…
Anthropic’s IPO Pitch Meets a Wall of Skepticism
Michael Burry, the investor who bet against the housing market before the 2008 crash, has a new target. A research firm has pegged Anthropic’s value at $150 billion, about 92%…
