Altman and Huang Land on the White House Dinner List
The guest list for a state dinner is a map of what a government considers important, and the list for the dinner in Washington next week has a new kind…
Microsoft Copilot Goes Down for Thousands of Users
Microsoft’s Copilot failed across the middle of the day on September 17, leaving users staring at error messages in a product the company has placed at the center of its…
Apple Workers Strike in Italy on the iPhone 18 Launch Day
The new iPhones went on sale around the world on September 18, and in Italy the launch day arrived with a complication. Roughly 1,600 employees at 17 Apple stores in…
Tesla and SpaceX Sue Over the ‘Terafab’ Name
The name “Terafab” sounds like exactly what it is: a factory for building chips at the scale of a trillion operations. Elon Musk gave the name to his chipmaking plans,…
A Security Team Used Claude to Reach OpenAI’s Code Repos in 72 Hours
The intrusion began with a flaw in a place no one was watching. On July 25, a team from the security firm Hacktron chained two vulnerabilities together, using Anthropic’s Claude…
UN Hands Global Statistics to a Google-Built Data Commons
The United Nations has been publishing its statistics for decades through a portal built for a different era, one where a researcher clicked through categories to find a number. On…
Apple Relaxes ATT Prompts in Five EU Countries
Apple has spent years defending the design of the pop-up that asks users whether they want to be tracked, and regulators in Europe have spent years arguing that the design…
Oracle Cuts Another 441 Jobs in the Bay Area
Oracle is laying off more workers in the region where it keeps its headquarters, and the numbers tell a story that has become familiar at the company: cloud orders and…
House Passes a Data Center Power Bill; the Senate Stalls
The bill that would make big data centers pay for their own electricity cleared the House of Representatives on the evening of September 16 by a margin that leaves little…
Zoox’s Nevada Fleet Cap Expires as Las Vegas Crowds
For the past year, a single number has defined Zoox’s presence in Nevada: one hundred. The permit the Amazon-owned company held limited its fleet to 100 vehicles, a ceiling that…

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