OpenAI Discloses Six More Cases of Troubling Model Behavior
The confession was buried in a blog post, but it was not hard to find. On September 17, OpenAI said that beyond the recent Hugging Face incident, it had found…
SK Hynix Plays Down Reports of U.S. Memory Talks With Intel
The statement was short and pointed, the kind a company issues when a report has run ahead of the facts. On September 16, SK Hynix said it has not confirmed…
Nokia Presses Deeper Into AI Networks With Nvidia
The press release read like a roster rather than an announcement, and that was the point. On September 16, Nokia named eight telecom operators across four continents that are moving…
U.S. Trade Panel Opens Patent Probe Into Apple, Samsung, Google
The notice ran to a single page and named three of the largest consumer-electronics companies in the world in one breath. On September 16, the U.S. International Trade Commission said…
May Mobility Reaches a $1.4 Billion Deal to Go Public Via SPAC
May Mobility, an autonomous shuttle company, said on September 15 that it will go public by merging with ACP Holdings, a deal that values the company at about 1.4 billion…
The Fed Is Expected to Raise Rates for the First Time in Three Years
The Federal Reserve entered the second day of its policy meeting on September 16 with the market betting on something that has not happened in three years: a rate increase.…
IBM’s Anderon Clinches a $1 Billion Grant for a Quantum Foundry
Anderon, a company under IBM, said on September 16 that it has finalized a 1-billion-dollar award from the US Commerce Department under the CHIPS Act, money earmarked for a pure-play…
Tesla’s Texas Solar Plant Clears an Early Hurdle; Roadster Set for October
A school board in Fort Bend County, Texas, voted on September 16 to advance Tesla’s application for a 10-billion-dollar solar cell factory, pushing the project past its first local approval.…
Amazon Lifts Entry Pay to $20 an Hour and Builds More Same-Day Hubs
Amazon said on September 16 that it will raise the minimum starting wage for its core US operations jobs to 20 dollars an hour, bringing average pay in those roles…
Microsoft Raises Its Dividend as Azure Sales Top $100 Billion
Microsoft raised its quarterly dividend by 8 percent to 98 cents a share on September 15, a quiet increase that told investors the company’s cash machine is still turning. Buried…
