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
AMD’s Value Crosses $1 Trillion on a Data-Center Surge
Lisa Su’s company has spent a decade climbing back toward the top of the chip industry. On September 21, for a few hours at least, it got there. AMD’s market…
Amazon Bars Meta’s Muse From Its Store as Shopify Signs On
One evening last week, a Meta customer asked the company’s new personal AI assistant to buy something on Amazon, and the order never went through. At checkout, the shopper saw…
Microsoft Hands Halo to Activision in Xbox Overhaul
The notice reached staff at Halo Studios on Tuesday morning. Of the 268 roles Microsoft eliminated across its Xbox game studios, the majority were at the team responsible for Halo,…
Apple Crosses $5 Trillion as New Macs Reach Stores
The numbers landed on the same day. As Apple’s shares climbed high enough to push the company’s market value past $5 trillion for the first time, its newest computers, the…
Nvidia-Backed Iambic Files for a U.S. Listing
The drug candidate at the center of Iambic Therapeutics’ pitch to public investors is a small molecule called IAM1363, now in early-stage human trials against breast cancer and other solid…
SoftBank-Backed SB Energy Slows Its IPO
Bankers working on the listing of SB Energy spent much of last week trying to fill an order book that never quite filled. By Monday, the SoftBank-backed data center developer…
Société Générale Puts a Price on AI Cost Savings
At a capital markets day in Paris this week, executives at Société Générale did something no large European bank had managed before: they attached a specific euro figure to the…
OpenAI Backs Independent Panel to Review Its Math Advances
On August 28, OpenAI began training a new internal model. By the time the company spoke publicly about it three weeks later, the system had done something its own researchers…
OpenAI Scrambles to Answer New Consumer Agents
For months, OpenAI’s rivals had the field to themselves. xAI’s Grok Bot began shipping on August 11, giving subscribers a stable of persistent AI teammates with their own cloud computers,…
Google Fined 403 Million Euros Over Location Data as It Expands Nuclear Bet
The fine landed on a Monday, and it was the fourth-largest the Irish regulator had ever issued. In Dublin, the Data Protection Commission announced it was fining Alphabet’s Google 403…
