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
AI Chip and Storage Stocks Slide as Treasury Yields Hit 19-Year High
The mood that lifted AI hardware stocks on Monday vanished by Tuesday’s premarket session. Nvidia fell about 2%, Marvell dropped more than 6%, and storage makers SanDisk and Micron declined…
Higgsfield Raises $400 Million as AI Video Ads Catch On
Higgsfield, a startup that generates advertising video from text prompts, said on Aug. 17 it closed a $400 million Series B round led by DST Global, valuing the company at…
Einride Orders 500 Tesla Semis in Largest Electric Truck Deal
Einride, the Swedish company that sells electric trucking as a service, said it will buy 500 Tesla Semis for its North American fleet, the largest deployment of the electric heavy…
SpaceX Discloses Shareholder List as 319 Million Shares Come Free
SpaceX, in its latest regulatory filing, laid out who owns the rocket company, and the list reads like a roll call of the modern technology economy. Elon Musk holds 48.4%…
Apple’s Camera AirPods Surface in macOS Update
The product reveal came in a file most people will never open. MacRumors, sifting through the demo video inside the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, found footage of AirPods fitted…
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Teens With Parental Controls
OpenAI on Aug. 18 released a dedicated version of ChatGPT for teenagers, bundling parental controls with study-oriented features in an effort to answer months of questions about minors using the…
OpenAI’s Safety Team Disbanded, Company Says It Was a Reorganization
The Financial Times reported on Aug. 16 that OpenAI disbanded its Preparedness team, the unit charged with assessing catastrophic risks from AI models, at the end of July, folding its…
Tesla’s Robotaxi Debuts Days Away, Nevada Approves 10 Vehicles
Inside Tesla’s Austin headquarters, employees are queuing for test rides in the Cybercab, the robotaxi the company has promised for years. The first rides for staff are underway, and the…
Meta’s Off-Balance-Sheet AI Obligations Reach $420 Billion, Auditor Flags
Buried in Meta Platforms’ audited financials is a number that does not appear on the balance sheet: roughly $420 billion in AI-related obligations, according to an analysis by the Wall…
Beijing Orders State Bodies to Uninstall Custom Windows 10 Ahead of Schedule
China’s Ministry of State Security has told some state institutions to remove the government-customized edition of Microsoft’s Windows 10 from their computers, earlier than the original timetable, Bloomberg reported on…
