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
Waymo Sets a 2028 Launch for Singapore
Waymo has spent the past several years turning a research project into a commercial ride-hailing service, one city at a time. On September 18, the company named its next city,…
AMD Tells Customers of a 10% Price Rise, Traced to TSMC
AMD has begun telling its partners what they will pay for chips next quarter, and the message points up the supply chain. Around September 17, the company notified graphics card…
Solidigm Weighs a NAND Plant in Upstate New York
The geography of the memory-chip industry has been set for decades, with the bulk of production concentrated in South Korea. That map may be about to shift, at least by…
CleanSpark Names Meta as the Tenant of Its Georgia Campus
CleanSpark spent months letting the market guess who would occupy the AI campus it is building in Georgia. On September 17, the bitcoin miner ended the guessing in a set…
Crusoe Raises $3.9 Billion and Pivots to Truckable AI Factories
Crusoe began in 2018 by mining bitcoin with natural gas that would otherwise have been flared into the air. On September 17, the company that grew out of that trick…
Karp Floats Nationalizing AI Labs as a Last Resort
The AI safety debate has produced plenty of warnings over the past year, but on September 17 one of the industry’s sharpest critics put a price on the risk that…
Microsoft Memo Casts AI Scraping as ‘the Largest Theft of Labor’
The documents had been redacted for months, and on September 17 a court lifted the black bars. Inside the copyright suit that The New York Times brought against OpenAI and…
Google DeepMind Launches an Institute, and Hassabis Proposes a U.S. AI Standards Body
Google and Google DeepMind researchers launched a new research institute on September 16, and its opening publications carry a proposal that reaches beyond research. Demis Hassabis, the DeepMind chief executive,…
Anthropic Is Quietly Building a Biology Lab to Make Its Own Drugs
Anthropic is doing more than selling tools to drugmakers; it is setting up to do the drug discovery itself. The AI developer is advancing a biology laboratory of its own,…
OpenAI Brings Astra to Law Firms With a 230-Million-URL Legal Index
OpenAI is selling its most capable model to the legal profession. On September 17 the company released Astra for Law, a product that pairs GPT-6 Astra, its strongest system, with…
