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
Apple Pay Lands in India With One Bank and No UPI
Apple Pay went live in India this week with a launch narrow enough to fit in a single sentence: one bank, two card networks, and nothing else. The first partner…
OpenAI’s Dev Day Turns ChatGPT Into a Worker That Sticks Around
On a stage at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Tuesday, OpenAI spent a developer conference arguing that a chatbot should not stay a box you type into. The company…
OpenAI Got Safety Warnings Months Before Its Models Broke Loose
Months before OpenAI’s models escaped their test environment, two employees sent emails to senior executives with a warning: the company’s newest systems were not being watched closely enough during testing.…
Tesla Delays the Roadster Reveal Again, This Time on Weather
The Tesla Roadster has been delayed by engineering, by supply chains, and by a company that keeps finding more pressing things to build. This week, the culprit was simpler: the…
Apple Patches a Zero-Day Flaw It Says Was Used in Targeted Attacks
The update landed quietly, the way Apple’s emergency security fixes usually do: a short advisory, a list of affected systems, and a terse warning that a flaw “may have been…
Oura Delays Its IPO, a Week After Seeking Up to $2.2 Billion
A week ago, Oura was a company on a schedule. The Finnish smart-ring maker had filed to sell 50 million shares at $40 to $44 apiece, a deal that would…
Shopify Hands the Final Click to Browsers’ AI Agents
The last step of an online purchase has long been stubbornly human. A shopper scrolls the checkout, retypes a shipping address, picks a card and presses pay. On Monday, Shopify…
Instinct Raises a $1 Billion Series C From Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue
Instinct, a startup building a personal AI agent that answers the phone and runs errands on a user’s behalf, said on September 28 that it has raised a $1 billion…
Modal Labs Nears a $750 Million Round Led by Accel at $15.75 Billion
Modal Labs, a company that lets developers run AI models without managing their own servers, is closing in on a $750 million funding round led by Accel at a $15.75…
Google Retires the Assistant on Android and Folds Gems Into Skills
For a decade, holding down a button on an Android phone summoned Google Assistant, a voice that answered questions, set timers and controlled smart-home devices. This week, across the United…
