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
Nscale’s $103 Billion Order Book Backs Its $35 Billion Valuation
The centerpiece of Nscale’s pitch to public investors is a number the company says it has already locked in: $103.4 billion of contracted AI-computing revenue. The London-based cloud provider filed…
SoftBank’s $11 Billion Bond Sale Buys Time on Its OpenAI Payment
SoftBank Group has a payment of $10 billion coming due to OpenAI on October 1, and it is turning to the bond market to write the check. The Japanese conglomerate…
Nvidia-Backed British Cloud Firm Files for New York Listing
The company that Britain’s technology press has taken to calling the “British Oracle” is taking its listing to New York. Nscale, a London-based provider of AI cloud computing backed by…
SoftBank Plans Record Junk-Bond Sale to Fund OpenAI Investment
Bankers working for SoftBank Group spent the weekend putting the finishing touches on one of the largest high-yield bond offerings a single company has ever brought to market. By Monday,…
Tim Cook Meets Australian PM, Calls Social Media Rules ‘World-Leading’
Tim Cook, the executive chairman of Apple, met with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Apple Park on September 19, and came away having told the prime minister that Australia’s…
Massachusetts and California Tighten AI Rules in Tandem
Two governors moved on the same day to impose new controls on artificial intelligence, a coordinated-looking push from states that have decided Washington will not act for them. On September…
Virginia Governor Signs Order Curbing Data Center Secrecy
Governor Abigail Spanberger of Virginia signed an executive order on September 18 that bars state agencies from signing confidentiality agreements on data center projects and tightens the approval process for…
Microsoft Fixes a Perfect-Scored Flaw in Azure AI Foundry
Microsoft patched a vulnerability in Azure AI Foundry on September 18 that carried the highest possible severity score, a CVSS rating of 10.0, after determining that a critical function in…
Microsoft’s Suleyman Says Controlling AI Will Be a ‘Genuinely Huge Challenge’
Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft’s AI business, said in an interview on September 18 that controlling advanced artificial intelligence will be a “really, really big challenge” for the…
a16z Leads a $40 Million Round in AI Evaluation Startup Vals
Vals, a startup that sells private tests for measuring the abilities of artificial-intelligence models, has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the company…
