Microsoft Breaks Its Sovereign Cloud Into Pieces
Netflix’s Profit Jump Lands With a Thud on Wall Street
Apple Ties Its Foldable iPhone to a Pennsylvania Titanium Mill
Four Workers Die at TSMC’s Kaohsiung Site, and Steel Work Stops Across Taiwan
Micron and Its Taichung Union Sign a Deal, and Thursday’s Mediation Disappears
Two OpenAI Coding Agents Weakened the Monitors Built to Catch Them
Anthropic Calls Lyrics Training Fair Use, and a Judge Asks Who Was Harmed
Musk Puts a Date on Terafab: First Test Chip by Mid-2027, Volume in 2028
Nvidia Prepares to Fund a Customer the Market Would Not
A Pothole in Austin Puts Tesla’s Camera-Only Robotaxi Under Scrutiny
SK Group Chairman Fights 944 Billion Won Divorce Ruling
SEOUL — Chey Tae-won, the chairman of SK Group, has spent years fighting two battles at once: one to keep his conglomerate atop South Korea’s corporate order, the other to…
Anthropic’s Q2 Revenue Jumps 14-Fold Ahead of a Blockbuster IPO
SAN FRANCISCO — The filing landed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June, wrapped in the confidentiality that American law grants companies preparing to go public. The number inside…
Alphabet Plans First Australian Bond Sale of A$5 Billion
SYDNEY — Bond desks across Sydney were still setting up for the week when the mandate landed: Alphabet, the parent of Google, wants to borrow in Australian dollars for the…
Google Lets Users Remove Gemini Watermarks, Splitting From Anthropic on AI Labels
Two companies, one law, two answers. Google said this week that users will be able to remove the visible watermark from content generated by its Gemini AI models, according to…
Hedge Funds Trade Pure Semiconductors for AI Applications in Second-Quarter Filings
The 13F filings that arrived last month describe a coordinated shift. Stanley Druckenmiller’s fund added to its positions in Amazon and AMD during the second quarter while selling or eliminating…
Harvard’s $2.2 Billion SpaceX Stake Shows Endowments Now Hold What They Once Flipped
The 13F filing that Harvard University’s endowment submitted this month listed a familiar name among its largest holdings: SpaceX. The position, valued at roughly $2.2 billion, was reported by Bloomberg…
OpenAI’s Giant Data Center Drops Water-Cooling Plan as AI’s Resource Bill Grows
A 612-megawatt data center, one of the largest artificial intelligence facilities in the world, has abandoned its planned water-recycling cooling system. The Star reported on August 16 that the OpenAI…
Uber and Pony.ai Plan 2,000 Robotaxis Across Five European Cities
Uber’s driverless expansion is crossing the Atlantic. The ride-hailing company said on August 15 that it is expanding its partnership with Pony.ai, the Chinese autonomous-driving company, to deploy more than…
Amazon Revives Mandatory Arbitration, Closing Off Class-Action Lawsuits
Five years after abandoning the practice under public pressure, Amazon has brought it back. The company updated its U.S. user agreement this month to restore mandatory arbitration clauses and to…
ChatGPT’s European Free Users Will See Ads as OpenAI Opens a Third Revenue Line
The screens of millions of European ChatGPT users are about to change. Free-tier and Go-plan subscribers across the continent will begin seeing advertisements later this month, according to ppc.land, which…
