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
OpenAI Unveils GPT-6 Astra, and a $1 Billion Plan to Protect Critical Infrastructure
Greg Brockman has a habit of making bold claims about the state of artificial intelligence, and he made another one on the call announcing OpenAI’s newest model. Asked whether the…
Crusoe Raises $3 Billion and Books a $13 Billion Cloud Deal With Jane Street
The trading firm Jane Street built its name on speed, moving in and out of markets faster than anyone else. Now it is signing up for computing capacity on a…
Anthropic Nears a $15 Billion Credit Line Ahead of Its Expected IPO
The banks that will take Anthropic public appear to be the same banks that are lending it money first. Anthropic is close to finalizing an expansion of its revolving credit…
The Same-Day Outage at Three of AI’s Best-Known Services
On the same afternoon, three of the most widely used AI services in the world stopped working. ChatGPT, operated by OpenAI, Claude, operated by Anthropic, and Grok, operated by xAI,…
Thinking Machines Seeks More Than $1 Billion at a $40 Billion Valuation
A year ago, Thinking Machines was a seed-stage startup with a famous founder and no product to speak of. Now it is raising money at a valuation among the most…
A BASF Unit Sues Apple Over Face ID Patents in Texas
The technology that lets an iPhone owner unlock the device by looking at it is now the subject of a patent fight in a Texas federal court. trinamiX, a subsidiary…
Hugging Face’s Chief Defends the Nvidia Deal to the Community
The day Nvidia announced it would buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, the loudest questions came not from Wall Street but from the platform’s own users, the millions of developers…
Adobe Names Anil Chakravarthy Its Next Chief Executive
Shantanu Narayen has run Adobe for nearly two decades, through the company’s transformation from packaged software to subscriptions and its re-invention around generative AI. On December 1, he will hand…
OpenAI Sets a Higher API Price for GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI’s newest flagship model does more than its predecessor. It also costs more. The company said it is pricing GPT-6 Astra’s application-programming interface at $10 per million input tokens and…
Saudi AI Firm Humain Seeks a $2.5 Billion Fund for Data Centers
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has spent years buying artificial-intelligence capacity from abroad. Now one of its own companies wants to build the financing machinery to create it at home.…
