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
Starship Makes Its Orbital Debut, Deploying 26 Starlink Satellites
The rocket cleared the pad at Starbase on the Texas coast on the morning of September 28 and kept climbing until, for the first time in the program’s history, it…
TSMC Is Said to Study a Second U.S. Base, With Dallas on the List
Taiwan Economic Daily reported on September 29, citing supply chain sources, that TSMC is evaluating a second U.S. manufacturing base that could hold as many as six advanced fabs, with…
Meta Hires a Database Chief to Run Its Push Into Business Software
When Meta went looking for someone to run its new enterprise AI business, it did not pick a research scientist. It picked Chirantan “CJ” Desai, the chief executive of the…
Tech Chiefs Dine at the White House as Washington Reopens the AI Question
The guest list was the headline. On September 29, Donald Trump sat down at the White House with Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Sundar Pichai of Google,…
At DevDay, OpenAI Wagers Its Roadmap on Agents
Sam Altman will walk onto a stage at Fort Mason in San Francisco on September 29 with an audience the company has primed to expect something it has refused to…
Nvidia Adds $150 Billion to Its Buyback Authorization
The number needs a frame to be understood. Nvidia’s board, on September 28, added $150 billion to the company’s share-repurchase authorization — a sum larger than the entire market value…
AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs in an $8.2 Billion Bet on Physical AI
The woman who built the dataset that helped ignite modern AI spent this year telling audiences she wanted to be closer to the hardware. On September 28, she got her…
Faraday Future Folds Its Robotics Unit Into a Nasdaq Listing
On September 30, a ticker on the Nasdaq will change. The listed company known as AIxC becomes FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem Inc., trading under the symbol FFR. Two days earlier,…
OpenAI Scraps a Model It Had Called Its Strongest
The superlatives were already on record. When OpenAI’s Astra family debuted this month, the company described it as the strongest model it had ever built. Now the next model in…
Anthropic Puts Top-Tier Guardrails on a Cheaper Sonnet
Anthropic’s announcement for Sonnet 5.5, posted on September 28, opened with a price list rather than a benchmark chart: $2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens, and…
