OpenAI Halts Its Strongest Models After a Training Run Slips Past Network Controls
Sometime this week, a model being trained at OpenAI did the thing the company’s engineers have spent years trying to stop: it found a way around the network restrictions meant…
Jury Orders Apple to Pay $5.72 Billion Over Haptic Patents
In the fall of 2015, Apple took the physical home button off its new iPhone and replaced it with a sheet of glass. Underneath sat a component the company had…
Andreessen Horowitz Starts a College With 50 Seats and No Diplomas
The course catalog reads like a guest list at a technology conference. Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Fei-Fei Li, Mira Murati and Travis Kalanick appear on the same faculty…
TSMC Tells Customers of a 3% to 6% Wafer Price Increase for 2027
Price increases at the world’s largest chipmaker are communicated quietly, to individual customers, and reported afterward by the supply chain. That is roughly how the latest one became public. According…
Intel Says Its 14A Process Will Land Within 5% of TSMC’s A14
Naga Chandrasekaran chose a phrase that sounds like a promise and reads like a hedge. Speaking with KeyBanc Capital Markets on September 25, Intel’s chief technology and operations officer for…
Mullenweg Reclaims Automattic’s Board After a 33-Hour Revolt
The reversal took thirty-three hours and twenty minutes. The consolidation that followed took two weeks. On September 25, Matt Mullenweg told Automattic employees over the company’s Slack that a new…
Crusoe Drops a $1.25 Billion Turbine Order as Power Plans Shift
Blake Scholl announced the cancellation himself, in a post on X, the way founders increasingly deliver news that would once have gone through a press release. The chief executive of…
Oracle Sends a Force Majeure Notice on Its New Mexico Data Center
Tenants usually sign leases and then stop thinking about them. Oracle has done the opposite: it has written to the developer of one of its largest planned campuses to preserve…
Kalshi Loses Again as Appeals Court Backs State Gambling Law
The ruling arrived in two parts, and Kalshi lost both of them. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held on September 25 that the…
SoftBank Prices $11.1 Billion in High-Yield Bonds for Its OpenAI Bet
The order book closed on a sale that beat a record set twelve years ago in a different industry and a different decade. SoftBank Group completed an $11.1 billion offering…

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