Amazon’s Bee Adds Two Personal AI Devices Starting at $75
Brussels Prepares Fast Approval for a European Satellite Venture
Disney Will Pay $60 Million a Year for 66 Character.AI Employees
CERN and Mistral Will Train a Physics Model on Collision Data
Salesforce Wins a Tax Authority Contract Worth Up to 2 Billion Pounds
Netflix Replaces Its Content Chief and Cuts Nearly a Thousand Jobs
Apple’s First Foldable Sold Out Its First Run in About 30 Minutes
Waymo Picks Toronto as Its Fourth Market Outside the United States
Google and Brussels Discuss Remedies for a 890 Million Euro Antitrust Bill
Google Adds CNN to Its News Licensing Deals and Passes 400 Partners
A Five-Year-Old Intel Socket Readies Itself for New Chips
For PC builders, the most consequential Intel news of the week did not come from Intel. It came from Gigabyte, the Taiwanese motherboard maker, which posted a BIOS update on…
Amazon Brings Its Satellite Internet to Market, Under Starlink’s Shadow
The satellite that came off the line this week carried no special marking, but it was the thousandth Amazon had built. Sometime in the next few weeks, the company plans…
Micron Readies a $35 Billion Buyback as Its Taiwan Workers Prepare to Walk Out
The two numbers arrived within days of each other and told opposite stories. Micron’s board authorized a share repurchase program of up to $35.16 billion, effective December 9. In Taiwan,…
Apple Quietly Hires the Team Behind a Defunct Audio App
The app had a short, bright life and a quiet end. Huxe, a startup that turned a person’s email and calendar into a personalized audio briefing, shut down its service…
Apple Pares iPhone 18 Pro Orders as the Price Rises
For years, the Pro iPhone was the one product Apple could raise prices on and still watch demand hold steady. This autumn, that assumption wobbled. Apple has told some suppliers…
Batteries Undercut the Gas Turbines Data Centers Count On
The gas turbine has been the default answer to the data center industry’s power problem. On October 9, a report from the consultancy Wood Mackenzie, covered by TechCrunch, made the…
Oracle Hauls Gas to Its Data Centers by Truck
The data center outside Salt Lake City ran for more than a year on natural gas that arrived by truck. Oracle, waiting for a pipeline to be built and connected…
Anthropic Gives a Single Agent a Thousand Hands
The gap between two numbers tells the story. Asked to hunt for bugs hidden in a codebase, one Claude agent working alone found 27 of the 70 defects the test…
Cloudflare Gives Its Decision Model Ears and Eyes
The model Cloudflare built to answer questions without writing a single sentence can now watch video and listen to audio. On October 9 the company released Clef-omni, extending its family…
USA Today Sues OpenAI and Demands Its Models Be Destroyed
The publisher behind USA Today sued OpenAI on October 8 and asked a court to do what no major copyright plaintiff has yet achieved: order the models themselves destroyed. The…
