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
Oracle’s Debt Load Passes $169 Billion as It Chases More AI Chips
The number is now large enough that it is hard to ignore. Oracle, the cloud company that has transformed itself into a landlord for artificial-intelligence computing, has interest-bearing debt above…
Tesla Drops ‘Full Self-Driving’ Name in Europe, Where It Was Never True
The badge on Tesla’s European website changed this week, and the change was not cosmetic. Where customers had seen “Full Self-Driving (Supervised),” the company now writes “Tesla Assisted Driving.” The…
Apple Splits Its Fall Into Two October Events, Ending With an OLED MacBook
Apple sent out one invitation on October 8 with two words — “Welcome home” — and a date of October 13. By the end of the week, the company had…
Amazon Retires the $155 Fire Tablet and Sells Alexa at iPad Prices
For more than a decade, Amazon’s Fire tablet was the default answer to one question: what is the cheapest tablet that still works? The Fire HD 10, at $155, was…
Eleven Companies Pledge $2.4 Billion in Computing to a U.S. Science Push
The pledges came one after another at a White House summit, each a round number attached to a familiar name. By the end of October 8, eleven technology companies had…
Samsung Locks Up Nearly 80% of Next Year’s Memory Supply
The memory-chip business used to run on quarterly haggling, with buyers and sellers meeting to settle prices every few months and leaving the rest to the spot market. That model…
ASML’s Next Lithography Leap May Be a Decade Away
The machine that prints the world’s most advanced chips is nearing the edge of what its optics can do, and the company that builds it has now put a number…
GlobalFoundries to Build a Key Chip-Packaging Part for TSMC in New York
The part is small, flat and unglamorous, a thin slice of silicon that no consumer ever sees. It is also one of the reasons the world’s AI accelerators cannot be…
U.S. Suspends Microsoft and Adobe From Green-Card Labor Program
The notice arrived without fanfare, and it landed on two of the most valuable companies in America. On October 8, the U.S. Department of Labor suspended Microsoft and Adobe from…
Google Gives Gemini a Job, and Waymo Borrows $5 Billion
Google spent Wednesday making the same argument twice: that its AI is ready to go to work. At a cloud event, the company showed a unified Gemini agent that takes…
