• August 17, 2026
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A 25-Year-Old Dropout Becomes Europe’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaire

LONDON — James Dacombe left school at 16, started his first company while his classmates were sitting exams, and now, at 25, he has a net worth that would make…

  • August 17, 2026
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TSMC Builds a Transistor Layer Four-Tenths of a Nanometer Thick

HSINCHU, Taiwan — Silicon has a physical limit, and the world’s largest chipmaker is trying to see past it. TSMC, working with researchers from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University,…

  • August 17, 2026
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Brockman Dismisses OpenAI Exodus: ‘I Don’t Think It’s Really That Abnormal’

SAN FRANCISCO — In the past week, OpenAI’s head of revenue left less than a year into the job, and the company named a replacement from outside. The departures have…

  • August 17, 2026
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Claude Outage Hits Anthropic for 36 Minutes in IPO Run-Up

SAN FRANCISCO — For about half an hour on Sunday, one of the most valuable private companies in technology could not get its own product to work. Anthropic’s Claude service…

  • August 17, 2026
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Samsung Weighs Moving Memory Packaging to Vietnam to Make Room for HBM

SEOUL — Samsung Electronics is evaluating a shift that would redraw its memory manufacturing map: moving DRAM and NAND packaging lines from its Cheonan and Onyang plants in South Korea…

  • August 17, 2026
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SanDisk’s 80 Percent Margin Target Puts Memory Peers in the Spotlight

NEW YORK — SanDisk’s chief executive stood before analysts on Aug. 13 and laid out a future most memory makers would have considered fantasy two years ago: adjusted gross margins…

  • August 17, 2026
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Uber Bets on Zipline Drones to Redraw the Last Mile

SAN FRANCISCO — Dara Khosrowshahi has spent a decade arguing that Uber is a logistics company, not a car company. On Monday he put that argument in the air: Uber…

  • August 17, 2026
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Nvidia Backs OpenAI’s Ohio Campus With $105 Billion Guarantee

PIKE COUNTY, Ohio — The site sits on the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, a Cold War relic whose enrichment buildings have stood empty for decades. By the end of…

  • August 17, 2026
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OpenRouter’s Fivefold Jump Shows What AI Traffic Is Worth

NEW YORK — A little more than three months ago, OpenRouter raised money at a valuation of about $1.3 billion, with GV, Alphabet’s venture arm, leading the round. On Sunday,…

  • August 17, 2026
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Meta Faces Trial as 29 States Press Youth Addiction Claims

OAKLAND, Calif. — The courtroom on the seventh floor of the federal courthouse here has been prepared for a trial that could run six weeks, with jury selection beginning this…