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
Britain Presses Google to Open the Door to Rival Search Engines
For more than nine in ten internet searches in Britain, there is only one door. On September 23, the country’s competition regulator took another step toward forcing Google to install…
Sanders and Trump Split Over What to Do About Superintelligence
On September 23, Washington offered two answers to the same question, whether and how to rein in artificial intelligence, and they pointed in opposite directions. In the Senate, Bernie Sanders…
Microsoft Puts Quantum Hardware Within Washington’s Reach
Microsoft’s quantum ambitions have been described in decades, not quarters. On September 23, the company gave them a street address, opening a quantum research center in Maryland, minutes from Washington,…
Micron’s Taoyuan Workers Move Toward a Strike Vote
For months, the people who run some of the world’s most valuable memory-chip plants have watched their company post record margins. On September 23, the union at Micron’s Taoyuan plant…
Burry Adds to His Bet That the Memory Boom Is Over
Michael Burry built his reputation by standing against the last great financial mania. Two decades on, he is standing against a new one: the memory-chip rally that has made Micron…
Palantir’s Karp Says OpenAI May Never Reach the Public Market
Alex Karp has spent two decades selling software to governments that guard their secrets. On September 17 he told CNBC that the frontier AI labs may be carrying too much…
Oracle Cuts Jobs at the Texas Site It Shows Off as Its AI Future
Abilene, Texas, is where Oracle points when investors ask whether its partnership with OpenAI is real. Last week it was also where Oracle cut jobs. The company’s latest round of…
ASML Sells Nothing in Europe, and It Wants That Fixed
The most valuable company in Europe makes the machines the world’s chip factories cannot do without. In the second quarter, it sold none of them in Europe. ASML’s executive vice…
Nvidia Plants a Medical-Research Outpost in Israel
Nvidia’s chips run the data centers that train the world’s largest models. On September 23 the company said it wants those same systems to help discover drugs. The chipmaker announced…
Apple Tests a Screenless Fitness Band to Take On Whoop
Apple built the device that put a screen on tens of millions of wrists. Now it is weighing whether a growing set of customers would rather have no screen at…
