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
Qualcomm’s New Chip Aims at Camera-Equipped Earbuds
The next wave of earbuds may come with cameras, not to take pictures but to see what the wearer is doing. Qualcomm built a chip for exactly that. On Sept.…
Amazon to Build $100 Million Robotics Plant in Indiana
The building sits at 1175 Collins Road in Greenwood, Indiana, just across the street from an Amazon fulfillment center off Interstate 65. Amazon bought it to make the machines that…
Databricks Buys Spreadsheet Startup Row Zero
The deal started the way a lot of software acquisitions do: with a customer who could not stop using the product. Inside Databricks, the finance team had begun running its…
Microsoft Retires the Copilot+ PC Name and Hands Brad Smith the Message
The “Copilot+ PC” badge is coming off the box. Microsoft confirmed on Sept. 24 that it is retiring the brand it stamped on AI-capable Windows laptops, and the label has…
Google Readies an AI Satellite, a New Model and a Driving Record
Google spent Sept. 24 making three announcements at once, and each one pointed in a different direction. The company confirmed that its first artificial-intelligence satellite would launch on Oct. 1,…
Pentagon Gives SpaceX a Private Channel to Secret Space Data
SpaceX has gained exclusive access to classified space-tracking data from the U.S. Department of Defense, a channel that until now had been reserved for a small number of government agencies,…
Tesla Semi Finally Reaches High-Volume Production in Nevada
The trucks sat in a row on the Nevada desert, their doors already bearing the names of customers. On Sept. 24, Elon Musk stood before them at a factory east…
Musk Plans to Nearly Double Nvidia Chips at Memphis Supercomputer
Elon Musk laid out the next act of his computing buildup in a few spare sentences on X this week: the Colossus 2 data center outside Memphis, already the largest…
Oracle’s Force Majeure Notice Ripples Through AI Debt Markets
The notice Oracle sent on Wednesday was, on its face, a routine legal step. By Thursday, it had reached into the credit markets, dragged down a Japanese conglomerate’s shares, and…
OpenAI Readies a Security-Focused Model and a $500 Tier
OpenAI’s next model is not aimed at the mass market. It is aimed at the people paid to defend computer networks, and for the first time the company is building…
