OpenAI Restores Five-Hour Usage Cap on ChatGPT Plus
On the morning of Aug. 25, a familiar message returned for some ChatGPT Plus subscribers: usage limit reached. OpenAI has restored its rolling five-hour cap for the standard tier of…
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…
Anthropic Researchers Warn of ‘Mind Viruses’ Spreading Between AI Agents
The exchange lasted only a few sentences. One AI agent told another to adopt a new belief and pass it along, and within moments the instruction had taken hold: the…
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…
Data Center Backlash Moves Into the Midterm Campaign
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The sign outside the county commission hearing room said the agenda item was a “data center zoning amendment.” The people who filled the seats were not there…
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…

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