• August 23, 2026
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Meta Quietly Becomes One of Microsoft’s Largest AI Customers

Meta Platforms Inc. has become one of Microsoft Corp.’s biggest AI customers, spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to access artificial-intelligence models through Microsoft’s Azure cloud, according to…

  • August 23, 2026
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Google Loses Four More Top AI Researchers, Shedding $186 Billion in Market Value

The departures came in quick succession last week: four of Google’s most senior AI researchers handed in notice within days of one another, according to people familiar with the matter.…

  • August 23, 2026
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D.E. Shaw Opens $912 Million SpaceX Position, Cuts Broadcom Stake 58%

In a single quarterly filing, D.E. Shaw & Co. disclosed a brand-new position in SpaceX worth $912.4 million and a 58% reduction in its stake in Broadcom Inc., two moves…

  • August 23, 2026
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OpenAI Backs California AI Safety Bill, Cuts Model Prices, Takes Ads to Europe

In the space of 48 hours last week, OpenAI did three things that, taken together, sketch the strategy of a company preparing to go public. It endorsed a California bill…

  • August 23, 2026
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Anthropic Hires Google Chip Veteran Amir Salek to Build Its Own Silicon

Amir Salek spent eight years at Nvidia designing system-on-a-chip products before Google recruited him in 2013 to start its custom silicon effort from scratch. He ran the program for nearly…

  • August 23, 2026
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Tesla Recalls Nearly 3 Million Cars in China; Robotaxi Event Set for Sept. 3

On a collision, the low-voltage electrical system that powers the door buttons dies. The occupants reach for handles that look like part of the trim and are hard to find…

  • August 23, 2026
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Nvidia Tells Big Customers AI Server Prices Will Rise More Than 15%

The notice arrived over the past week, and it carried a message that procurement teams at the world’s largest cloud providers had been dreading: Nvidia Corp. is raising prices on…

  • August 21, 2026
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MacKenzie Scott’s New Novel Skips Publishers for a Free Substack Serial

The first installment of MacKenzie Scott’s third novel landed not in a bookstore or on a publisher’s spring list but on her personal Substack page, where subscribers found it waiting…

  • August 21, 2026
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SpaceX Shares Slide as Second Lockup Release Adds to Selling Pressure

SpaceX’s stock fell 5.6 percent on Wednesday as the company’s second lockup period expired, freeing about 319 million shares for trading, according to data compiled by this publication. The decline…

  • August 21, 2026
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Qualcomm Taps a Motorola Veteran to Steady Its Mobile Business

Qualcomm has named Sergio Buniac to run its mobile business, putting a veteran of Motorola in charge of the division that supplies processors to the world’s largest phone makers. The…