Yelp Sends an Agent to Make the Call
Meta Fixed Its Glasses and Didn’t Say What Broke
Japan’s First 3-Nanometer Line Comes With a Capacity Caveat
HSBC Asks What a Data Center Contract Is Worth
The Order Book Outruns the Assembly Line at ABB
Intel Asks the FCC for Permission to Keep Its Factory Robots Running
Oracle and AstraZeneca Attack the Slowest Step in Drug Development
Anthropic Buys the Company That Kept Data Encrypted While It Was Used
The Paper Fortune Inside Eric Schmidt’s Anthropic Stake
JPMorgan Puts a Number on the Banks’ CoreWeave Problem
OpenAI Leaders Warn of AI Power Concentration and Permanent Cyber Threats
SAN FRANCISCO — On the same day, two of the most senior figures at OpenAI delivered warnings about the technology they have done more than anyone to advance. Chief executive…
Justice Department Probes a16z’s Board Seats at Rival AI Companies
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is investigating whether Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most powerful venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, creates conflicts of interest by holding board seats at…
Dutch Regulator Fines Uber $966 Million Over Automated Driver Deactivations
AMSTERDAM — The Dutch data protection authority fined Uber 825 million euros, or about $966 million, on Sunday for the way it deactivates driver accounts, ruling that an automated process…
Google Cloud and Verizon Team Up to Sell AI to Enterprise Customers
NEW YORK — Google Cloud announced a strategic partnership with Verizon on Monday, an agreement designed to deliver artificial-intelligence services to the telecom giant’s corporate customers at scale. The two…
SoftBank Plans Record $6.3 Billion Retail Bond Sale to Fund AI Bets
TOKYO — SoftBank Group plans to issue about 1 trillion yen, or roughly $6.3 billion, in retail bonds in the Japanese market, a sale that would be the largest in…
Samsung’s Record $80 Billion Return Fails to Lift Shares; KOSPI Slumps
SEOUL — Samsung Electronics announced on Aug. 20 the largest shareholder-return program in Korean corporate history: up to $80 billion in buybacks and dividends, a figure the company framed as…
States Take Meta to Trial Over Teen Addiction Claims, Seeking $200 Billion
OAKLAND, Calif. — In a federal courtroom here, lawyers for dozens of states opened a trial Monday accusing Meta Platforms of engineering Facebook and Instagram to keep minors hooked, and…
Nvidia in Talks to Invest in Perplexity at Over $30 Billion Valuation
SAN FRANCISCO — Nvidia, the chip maker whose processors power much of the artificial-intelligence boom, is in discussions to invest in the AI search company Perplexity at a valuation above…
Meta Hires OpenAI Researcher Luke Metz for Superintelligence Lab
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Luke Metz, a veteran AI researcher who spent years at OpenAI and briefly at the startup Thinking Machines, is joining Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, a person familiar…
Anthropic’s Pricey Fable 5 Struggles to Win Corporate Spending
SAN FRANCISCO — When Anthropic released Fable 5, its most powerful model, the company’s sales team pitched it as the product that would justify the premium the market was placing…
