Meta’s Muse Chat Draws Fire from Adult Creators
Amodei Says Culture Takes Up to 40% of His Time as IPO Talk Grows
A Small Protest Meets London’s Robotaxi Trials
Intel Pushes Its AI Inference Software onto Xeon Servers
Tenstorrent Hires Bankers as the Chip Startup Weighs Its Options
Michigan Township Approves Google Data Center Site Plan Despite Residents’ Objections
Apple Pushes iPhone Duo Buyers Online as Stores Turn Away Walk-Ins
Qualcomm Disputes Korean Test Results That Its New Snapdragon Runs Hot
Samsung Adds $22.8 Million for Texas Workers and Schools
Anthropic’s Internal Report Finds Junior Engineers at 14% of Technical Staff
Boring Company Lands $3 Billion Round Led by UAE Money
The round valued a tunnel business at more than four times what it was worth four years ago, and the lead check came from the desert. The Boring Company, the…
SK Hynix Workers Reopen Pay Deal Over Bonus Split
The emergency assembly came together on short notice. SK Hynix’s labor union called a special meeting of its representatives on September 10 to explain a revised compensation proposal to its…
Instacart Adds an AI Shopping Assistant Named Clementine
Grocery delivery is a business of pennies. The margin on a basket of groceries is thin, and every customer service call, every abandoned search and every order that could have…
Suno Rebuilds Its Music AI on Licensed Songs as the Lawsuits Pile Up
The dispute between AI music generators and the record industry has been fought mostly in courtrooms, over whether training a model on copyrighted songs is fair use or theft. On…
A European Space Startup Raises $450 Million to Build a Backup to SpaceX
For Europe’s space agencies and companies, getting anything into orbit has increasingly meant one phone call: to SpaceX. The European Space Agency, commercial satellite operators and even national governments have…
Washington Puts $1.9 Billion Behind a Restart of Iowa’s Only Nuclear Plant
Duane Arnold was supposed to be done. The 615-megawatt nuclear plant on the Cedar River in Iowa was shut down in 2020 after a powerful windstorm known as a derecho…
Uber Opens the Euro Bond Market for the First Time With a €4 Billion Deal
Uber has spent a decade borrowing almost entirely in dollars, funding its expansion the way it ran its business: fast and American. On Tuesday, the company did something it has…
Amazon Steps Into the Sterling Bond Market With a £4.25 Billion Debut
For years, Amazon financed its global build-out almost entirely in dollars. That changed on Tuesday, when the company tapped the London market for its first-ever sterling bond, joining a rush…
SoftBank Will Repay the Rest of Its $40 Billion OpenAI Bridge Loan Early
SoftBank Group has spent the year levering up one of the largest bets in its history, and on September 9 it laid out the next step in that chain: repaying…
Meta Asks Users to Hand Email, Calendar and Bank Cards to a New AI Agent
Vishal Shah had a deadline he did not want to miss again. Meta’s product executive had originally planned to launch the company’s personal AI agent in April, then pushed it…
