IBM’s Quantum Claims and the Problem of Proof
For most of the past decade, a claim of quantum advantage came with an escape hatch. The machine had solved something a classical computer could not, and the only way…
Nvidia Opens the Speech Stack
An hour-long recording, up to eight voices, 40 languages, and a download link that anyone can use. Nvidia published Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe on Wednesday with its weights free on Hugging…
ServiceNow’s Solid Quarter Meets a Skeptical Market
ServiceNow Inc. beat its own forecasts for the third quarter and raised its revenue outlook for the year. By Thursday morning its shares were down 19% in premarket trading, on…
The 290 Megahertz the Carriers Want Back
The petition runs ten pages and makes one request: take 290 megahertz out of the 482 that the Federal Communications Commission intends to open for satellite-to-phone service. It was signed…
A Defense Laptop’s Processor Will Be Built in the Arizona Desert
The laptop is designed for people who take it into places without reliable power or a network: Army officers, federal investigators, police departments, firefighters. The processor inside it will come…
Amazon Cuts Software Jobs in the Unit That Builds Alexa
The notices went out by text message and email early on Wednesday morning, according to a person familiar with the matter. By the time the Seattle campus had settled into…
Apple Puts a Touchscreen on the MacBook Pro, and a Price to Match
The feature Apple spent a decade telling customers a laptop did not need now costs $400. The company announced a touchscreen MacBook Pro on Wednesday, with the 14-inch model starting…
Samsung’s Record Quarter and the Stock That Fell
Samsung Electronics reported the largest quarterly operating profit any technology company has ever posted, and its shares closed down 4.13% on the day. The numbers, released on October 29 for…
Alphabet’s Cloud Surge and the Cash It Consumed
By the time the market opened on October 29, Alphabet shares were down 13% at $283, and about $500 billion of market value had come off the company in a…
Microsoft’s Azure Beat, and the Capex That Did Not Arrive
Amy Hood had a sentence ready for the question every analyst asks now. “We still have demand that exceeds supply,” Microsoft’s finance chief said on the call, after a quarter…
