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’s Agents Hit a UN Data Site With 16,000 Requests
Rowan Howard-Jones noticed the traffic before he understood what it was. The security researcher said that between April and June, automated agents from OpenAI made more than 16,000 scans of…
Anthropic’s Chief Economist Says AI’s Payoff Is Years Away
Peter McIlroy has spent his career explaining that new technology shows up in the productivity numbers later than its backers promise. As chief economist at Anthropic, he now has to…
Samsung and SK Hynix Turn to Light for the Next Bottleneck
For two years, the race in AI semiconductors was about a single number: how many calculations a chip could perform per second. An analysis published in South Korea on September…
LG Electronics Joins Nvidia’s Partner Network to Sell Cooling
For most of its history, LG Electronics sold refrigerators, televisions and washing machines. The announcement it made on September 27 was about something far less visible to consumers: the liquid…
Bill Gates Says Unchecked AI Could “Cause a Billion Deaths”
Bill Gates has spent much of the past three years urging caution about artificial intelligence without ever quite sounding like a doomsayer. On Sunday, he did not sound like one…
Australia Summons OpenAI and Anthropic Chiefs Over a Rogue Agent
On the morning of September 27, a parliamentary committee in Canberra issued a demand that two of the most powerful executives in artificial intelligence rarely receive: appear in person and…
Walmart’s U.S. Chief Draws a Line Against Personalized Pricing
The letter landed on a Friday afternoon, and its purpose was to stop a rumor before it hardened. Walmart, the retailer said, had begun hanging digital price tags in its…
Quantum Computing Draws More Than $4 Billion in Venture Money This Year
The largest single check ever written to a quantum computing company was not from a specialist fund. It came from a group of mainstream investors that included names better known…
House Bill Would Put VPNs on the Front Line of Piracy Blocking
A virtual private network is, at its core, a way to hide where a person is. That is exactly what makes it useful for getting around a blocked website —…
Data-Center Buildout Is Paying Welders and Electricians, for Now
The job posting did not ask for a computer science degree or a background in machine learning. It asked for a pipefitter. Across the United States, the companies building and…
