SK Hynix Union Rejects Preliminary Wage Deal
The vote was close enough to hurt. By a margin of 50.08% to 49.92%, with turnout of 93.81%, the union at SK Hynix, the world’s second-largest memory-chip maker, has rejected…
Former Google Researchers Raise $6.5 Million to Build an AI ‘Judge’
Rishub Jain, a former Google researcher, spent years watching AI models grow more capable and less predictable. Now he is betting that the answer is a referee: a human-machine system…
OpenAI Infrastructure Executive Chris Malone Departs
Chris Malone, the executive who oversaw construction of OpenAI’s data centers, has left the company, according to people familiar with the matter. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed that Malone is no…
Anthropic Pitches Investors on $30 Trillion Market Ahead of Planned IPO
The pitch begins with a number that dwarfs the global economy: more than $30 trillion. Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, plans to tell prospective investors that its…
Emerald AI Raises $150 Million to Turn Data Centers Into Flexible Power Users
On hot afternoons in California, when grid operators plead for every megawatt, a data center running Emerald AI’s software does the opposite of what its tenants expect: it throttles back.…
SoftBank Explores Up to $20 Billion Bond Sale to Refinance OpenAI Stake
SoftBank Group executives have begun talks with investment banks about a bond offering that could raise between $10 billion and $20 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, part…
Micron Falls 6.9% as China Memory IPO and Patent Fight Weigh on the Stock
BOISE, Idaho — Micron Technology’s shares fell about 6.9 percent on Monday, sliding below $910, as investors weighed two pressures at once: a coming Chinese memory-chip initial public offering that…
Streamers Sue Twitch and Amazon Over AI Training on Livestreams
SAN FRANCISCO — A group of American online streamers filed a class-action lawsuit against Twitch and its parent company Amazon on Aug. 21, accusing the companies of using livestream content…
Walmart Ends Its Apple Pay Holdout, Accepting Tap-to-Pay at the Register
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — For the better part of a decade, Walmart was the most prominent holdout in American payments, refusing to accept Apple Pay and Google Pay at its registers…
Cook to Step Down as Apple CEO, Ternus Takes the Helm
CUPERTINO, Calif. — In one week, Tim Cook will do what no Apple chief executive has done since the company’s founding era: hand the job to a successor while staying…
