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
New Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay $942 Million
SANTA FE, N.M.—The judge’s ruling reads like a list of demands, and its total is the largest of its kind in American law. A New Mexico court has ordered Meta…
Researchers Use AI to Design New Viruses
BOSTON—The virus did not exist anywhere in nature, and it was designed in a laboratory by a machine that learned biology from text. American researchers said this week that they…
Alphabet Sells $25 Billion in Bonds as AI Demand Surges
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—The order book closed at roughly $115 billion, a pile of demand so large that it ranked among the biggest of the year. Alphabet said Thursday it has…
SanDisk Signs Eight Long-Term Memory Supply Deals
MILPITAS, Calif.—SanDisk’s chief executive has spent years listening to customers describe their demand in three-month windows, and he says the era of short planning horizons is over. Speaking on the…
Microsoft Opens Fourth Cloud Region in India
HYDERABAD—The cranes have come down and the servers are running. Microsoft said on Aug. 6 that its cloud region in Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana state, has officially opened, making…
OpenAI Expands Free ChatGPT With GPT-5.6 Luna
SAN FRANCISCO—The free tier of the most popular AI product on earth is about to get bigger. OpenAI said on Aug. 6 that it is updating its ChatGPT experience, giving…
Nvidia Weighs Memory Cut for Rubin Ultra GPU
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—The fastest product in Nvidia’s history is running late, and the company is now weighing a compromise. According to people familiar with the matter, Nvidia is considering reducing…
Firmus Raises $2 Billion for Sovereign AI Cloud
SYDNEY—The pitch that Firmus makes to governments is simple: your data, your compute, your country. The Australian company builds cloud infrastructure designed to keep artificial-intelligence workloads inside national borders, a…
AMD to Acquire AI Inference Chip Startup Taalas
TORONTO—The startup’s pitch has always sounded slightly heretical in an industry built on general-purpose chips. Taalas, a company founded in 2023 in this city’s tech district, makes processors that are…
SpaceX and Tesla Plan Chip-Making Complex in Texas
GRIMES COUNTY, Texas—The announcement went out late on Aug. 6 with the kind of numbers that usually accompany national infrastructure projects, not corporate press releases. SpaceX and Tesla, the two…
