Anthropic Prepares to File Its IPO Prospectus as Soon as Friday
Volkswagen Puts Microsoft Copilot in Front of 330,000 Employees
Moody’s Raises TSMC to Aa2, Citing AI Demand and Advanced-Node Lead
Blacksmith Reaches $1 Billion Valuation as AI Code Chokes Build Pipelines
EBay Cuts 9% of Its Staff and Says the Strategy Is Working
Automattic Cuts Staff While Its Boardroom Is Still Emptying
Bose Buys a Younger Audience and Leaves the Nameplate Alone
Walmart Opens the Door to Shopping Agents, Then Hands Them a Rulebook
A Billion Dollars for a Kernel
Legora’s $8.8 Billion Bet on Fewer Billable Hours
Novo Nordisk and AWS Open AI Drug Discovery Hub in London
LONDON–The most expensive part of drug development is the beginning: screening millions of compounds, predicting how they will behave, and deciding which few deserve the decade and billions of dollars…
Meta Releases Muse Glimmer, Its Most Capable Open Model
MENLO PARK, Calif.–Mark Zuckerberg has a habit of using product launches to make political points, and the release of Meta’s newest AI model was no exception. The company unveiled Muse…
Anthropic Turns On Claude Code Auto Mode by Default
SAN FRANCISCO–For developers using Claude Code, Anthropic’s programming assistant, the workflow has been a partnership: the AI suggests code, and the human approves it. On Aug. 9, the company changed…
Hedge Fund Pours $400 Million Into Chip Startup
SAN FRANCISCO–The hedge fund Situational Awareness has made a career of unconventional bets, from trading strategies that shocked markets to positions that other funds avoided. On Aug. 9, it placed…
SK Hynix Ex-Employee Gets 18 Months for Chip Leak
SEOUL–The trial lasted more than a year, and the technology at issue was worth more than most criminal cases in South Korea: manufacturing know-how for semiconductor memory, the industry that…
Google Play Adds Venmo, Opening App Store Payments
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–For a decade, buying apps on Google Play meant paying with a Google account: credit cards, carrier billing, and Google Pay were the options, and developers grumbled about…
SpaceX Retail Investors Turn Sellers After IPO Run
NEW YORK–The first few months of SpaceX’s life as a public company had a familiar shape: individual investors piled into the stock, buying shares of the rocket maker on every…
Microsoft to Launch Maia 300 AI Chip Next Month
REDMOND, Wash.–For years, Microsoft’s AI infrastructure strategy had a simple shape: buy almost everything from Nvidia. The company’s Azure cloud grew into one of the world’s largest consumers of Nvidia…
Sony and TSMC Plan $6.3 Billion Image Sensor Plant in Japan
TOKYO–Kumamoto prefecture, on the southern island of Kyushu, has become the most crowded patch of semiconductor real estate in Japan. TSMC’s first Japanese fab opened there, its second is under…
TSMC Posts Record July Revenue on AI Orders
TAIPEI–The monthly revenue report from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has become a ritual for the global chip industry, a monthly check on whether the artificial-intelligence boom is still feeding through…
