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
AI Coding Startup Cognition in Talks at $40 Billion Valuation
Cognition, the startup behind the AI coding agent Devin, is in talks with investors about a new funding round at a valuation of about $40 billion, according to people familiar…
Tesla Files for $10.1 Billion Solar Factory in Texas
In a tax-incentive application posted by the Texas Comptroller, Tesla has laid out plans for the largest manufacturing investment it has ever put on paper: a $10.1 billion solar factory…
Twitch Will Use Streamers’ Videos to Train Amazon’s AI Models
Mike Minton, the chief product officer of Twitch, was live on the platform when he addressed the policy that had streamers angry all week. The company had announced that it…
IBM Brings OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 to Its Enterprise Customers
IBM said on Aug. 13 that it had reached an enterprise AI agreement with OpenAI, giving its corporate customers access to GPT-5.6 inside IBM’s own platform. The deal pairs the…
Microsoft Trims China Consumer Business, Keeps AI Door Open
Microsoft is scaling back its consumer business in China but keeping a window open for AI, Reuters reported on Aug. 13, citing people familiar with the company’s plans. The move…
Apple in Talks to License News Content for AI-Powered Siri
Late on Aug. 12, The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple is negotiating paid licenses for news content, with the goal of improving how its AI-enhanced Siri answers questions about…
Meta Faces First State Trial Over Teen Social Media Harms
In a federal courtroom in Oakland, prospective jurors were asked on Wednesday about their own scrolling habits, their children’s use of social media, and whether they could set aside strong…
SpaceX Weathers First Lockup Test as Starlink Reaches Vietnam
On Aug. 6, more than 911 million SpaceX shares came out of their first lockup, roughly doubling the number of shares available to trade in a single session. By every…
Anthropic Prepares for October IPO as Investors Float $2 Trillion Value
In the past week, Anthropic’s investors have been making their case to anyone who will listen: the maker of the Claude AI models is worth $2 trillion. The Financial Times…
Cerebras Hardware Sales Slide as Cloud Revenue Soars
Cerebras Systems, the chip company that has spent years positioning itself as the challenger to Nvidia, reported quarterly results on Wednesday evening that showed its business moving in two directions…
