Meta’s Muse Chat Draws Fire from Adult Creators
Amodei Says Culture Takes Up to 40% of His Time as IPO Talk Grows
A Small Protest Meets London’s Robotaxi Trials
Intel Pushes Its AI Inference Software onto Xeon Servers
Tenstorrent Hires Bankers as the Chip Startup Weighs Its Options
Michigan Township Approves Google Data Center Site Plan Despite Residents’ Objections
Apple Pushes iPhone Duo Buyers Online as Stores Turn Away Walk-Ins
Qualcomm Disputes Korean Test Results That Its New Snapdragon Runs Hot
Samsung Adds $22.8 Million for Texas Workers and Schools
Anthropic’s Internal Report Finds Junior Engineers at 14% of Technical Staff
OpenAI Turns a Fast Decision Into an API
Diogo Almeida spent September shipping Jev, a model that answers by picking from a list of options instead of composing long passages. Then OpenAI shipped something that looks a lot…
Meta Says Muse Can’t Read Messages Without Consent
Jason Aten had turned the setting off. The Inc. columnist had installed Meta’s AI agent Muse on an iPhone and a Mac mini to test it, and he had left…
DoorDash Air’s Drone Starts on the Ground
Harrison Shih runs a drone program at DoorDash where the aircraft came last. The head of the company’s new air-delivery service spent the early work on packaging, loading systems and…
FedEx Bets $300 Million on an Electric-Truck Startup’s Single Model
FedEx has spent years buying electric delivery vehicles one pilot order at a time. On Sept. 30 it committed to a single supplier in a single stroke: 2,000 medium-duty electric…
Pentagon Personnel Agency Says a File-Sharing Flaw Exposed Troop Data for Months
The letter arrived without a number. It told recipients that “a small number of unauthorized users” had reached a file-sharing system run by the Defense Manpower Data Center, the Pentagon’s…
Pentagon Hands Its Look at Future War to Three Outsiders
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood before officers and enlisted troops at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept. 30 and said the department that runs the largest military on earth cannot…
Reddit Kills RSS and Its Public API to Shut Out AI Scrapers
Reddit handed its moderators and developers a timetable this week that reads like a farewell to the open web. RSS support ends on November 13. The public API closes in…
More Than 44,000 Britons Formally Object to Palantir’s NHS Data Platform
More than 44,000 people have filed legal objections asking NHS England to stop Palantir from sharing, storing or using their health records. It is one of the largest single waves…
ElevenLabs Doubles Its Valuation to $22 Billion in a $300 Million Employee Tender
Eight months ago, ElevenLabs was worth $11 billion. This week the voice-AI startup told its employees they could sell vested shares at a price that values the company at $22…
SoftBank Closes Its $3.1 Billion Takeover of DigitalBridge
SoftBank Group finished the deal it announced a year ago, closing its acquisition of DigitalBridge, the digital infrastructure investment manager, on Sept. 30. The purchase valued the company’s common stock…
