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
TSMC’s U.S. Wager Grows as Taiwan Clears $44 Billion and 2nm Targets Rise
The approvals keep coming in bigger than the ones before. Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs said on September 28 that it has cleared $44 billion in Taiwanese investment into the…
OpenAI Points Most of Its Research at GPT-7 and Beyond
The remark was a matter-of-fact accounting of where the money and the minds are going. Boris Power, the head of applied research at OpenAI, said on September 27 that 80%…
Anthropic’s Amodei Joins Trump for a Private Dinner Ahead of an IPO
Dario Amodei arrived at the White House on the evening of September 27 for a dinner with no other guests at the table. The co-founder and chief executive of Anthropic…
SpaceX Aims to Put Starship in Orbit for the First Time
For more than three years, SpaceX has launched Starship, the largest rocket ever built, thirteen times from its Texas coast launch site, and every one of those flights ended short…
Nvidia’s Answer to Rogue AI Agents: a Sandbox and a Watchdog
Nvidia’s pitch for the new wave of AI agents is not another model. It is a pair of machines meant to stand between an agent and the damage it can…
Three AI Rivals Agree on a Name for a Safety Standards Body
Google, OpenAI and Anthropic compete for the same engineers, the same data centers, and the same customers. On the question of how their frontier models should be policed, the three…
A Researcher Turned Meta’s Muse Into a Backdoor
In the weeks since Meta released Muse, its new personal AI assistant for the Mac, the company has sold the product on the strength of its access. Muse can read…
Infineon’s $1.44 Billion Thai Chip Plant Opens This Week
The concrete is poured and the cleanrooms are sealed. On Thursday, the German chipmaker Infineon Technologies will switch on a new semiconductor plant in Thailand, a factory it has spent…
Goldman Sees a Market That Has Stopped Pricing Fear
Brian Garrett spends his days watching what traders are willing to pay to protect themselves, and last week the answer was almost nothing. The Goldman Sachs derivatives trading chief says…
The Discount Silicon Valley’s Founders Fight to Accept
In a normal market, the logic of selling equity is simple: the highest valuation wins. Raise the same money at a richer price and you give up less of the…
