NASA Keeps Boeing’s Starliner in the Fleet, but Not for Astronauts
The announcement was tucked inside the kind of statement NASA issues when it wants a hard decision to read as routine. On September 28, the agency said it would keep…
OpenAI Leads $153 Million Round for a Startup That Revives Failed Drugs
The pharmaceutical industry discards most of what it makes. By the time a drug candidate reaches the late stages of clinical testing and fails, its owner has usually spent hundreds…
European Unions and Activists Call for an End to Palantir’s Public Contracts
Palantir Technologies has spent two years turning European governments into some of its fastest-growing customers, selling the same data-analysis software it built for U.S. intelligence agencies to police forces, health…
SoftBank Memory Unit and Shinko Sign Deal on Z-Angle Memory
SoftBank’s young memory venture has found a Japanese packaging partner for its attempt to break into a market ruled by three Korean and American giants. Saimemory, the memory subsidiary SoftBank…
ASML Chief Says Only One Company Can Build the Machines Chips Depend On
Every leading-edge chip factory in the world depends on a single company for its most important piece of equipment, and that company’s chief executive says the situation is not about…
Tesla Raises Berlin Pay as Europe Delays a Full Self-Driving Vote
On the same morning that Tesla told workers at its Berlin factory their pay would rise, European regulators quietly pushed back the one decision the company has been waiting for…
Oracle Founder Adds $9.2 Billion in Stock as Loan Collateral
Larry Ellison has spent most of the past two decades paying for his life the way other billionaires do: by borrowing against the stock, not by selling it. A filing…
TSMC’s U.S. Wager Grows as Taiwan Clears $44 Billion and 2nm Targets Rise
The approvals keep coming in bigger than the ones before. Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs said on September 28 that it has cleared $44 billion in Taiwanese investment into the…
OpenAI Points Most of Its Research at GPT-7 and Beyond
The remark was a matter-of-fact accounting of where the money and the minds are going. Boris Power, the head of applied research at OpenAI, said on September 27 that 80%…
Anthropic’s Amodei Joins Trump for a Private Dinner Ahead of an IPO
Dario Amodei arrived at the White House on the evening of September 27 for a dinner with no other guests at the table. The co-founder and chief executive of Anthropic…
