Australian Takeovers Arrive in Threes, and the Buyers Are Foreign
By the time the Australian market closed on Monday, three of its listed companies had agreed to be bought. Cleanaway Waste Management rose 20.2 percent after accepting a A$9.3 billion…
Three Interns From One Winter, and What They Built
The caption was seven words: “got the HRT gang back together!” Alexandr Wang, Meta’s chief artificial intelligence officer, posted the selfie on X on October 19. Two faces filled the…
A SpaceX Share for Every Child, and No Instructions
The post ran to two sentences. Next year, Elon Musk said on X on Monday, he will give one of his SpaceX shares to every kid in America. “This will…
Amodei Says Culture Takes Up to 40% of His Time as IPO Talk Grows
Dario Amodei says the most important part of his working day is the part that does not appear on any product roadmap. In an interview published by Fortune on October…
A Small Protest Meets London’s Robotaxi Trials
About fifteen people gathered outside the London office of Wayve on October 17, holding signs and asking for a stop to road testing of driverless taxis. The group cited safety,…
Tenstorrent Hires Bankers as the Chip Startup Weighs Its Options
For five years Tenstorrent has sold itself as the chip company that would rather license its designs than become another capital-hungry manufacturer of accelerators. On October 17 the company hired…
Apple Pushes iPhone Duo Buyers Online as Stores Turn Away Walk-Ins
On the morning the iPhone Duo went on sale, the line outside Apple’s stores formed the way it has for a decade: folding chairs, coffee, a few people who had…
Qualcomm Disputes Korean Test Results That Its New Snapdragon Runs Hot
The report reached Seoul’s technology press on Oct. 17: under sustained load, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 ran hot enough to raise questions about whether Samsung would use…
Samsung Adds $22.8 Million for Texas Workers and Schools
The road into Taylor, Texas, runs past a school district, a row of grain silos and, since 2022, a construction site large enough to see from the county highway. On…
OpenAI Dismisses an Engineer Accused of Bugging an Executive Meeting Room
OpenAI confirmed on October 18 that it had dismissed an employee accused of placing a recording device in an executive meeting room at its San Francisco office, a case that…
