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
Samsung Backs a Dutch Chip Startup, and an ASML Veteran Takes the Chairman’s Seat
Eindhoven is where ASML was built, and it is where the next generation of European chip companies is now taking shape. On September 15, one of them, Euclyd, announced a…
Gates Foundation Puts $1 Billion Behind the Idea That AI Should Be an Equalizer
The promise arrived in the annual Goalkeepers report, released on the evening of September 14. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it would commit $1 billion over the next…
OpenAI’s Nonprofit Arm Writes Its First Check: $40 Million for Cancer Vaccine Data
The first recipient of the money was a cancer center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. On September 15, the OpenAI Foundation, the nonprofit that sits atop the company’s structure, announced…
OpenAI Backs a House Bill That Would Put Inspectors Inside Its Models
Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, stood before reporters on September 15 and said something the company had never said before. OpenAI, he announced, supports the key provisions of…
OpenAI Paid More Than $300 Million for an iPhone Portrait-Mode Startup
The company sits in Los Altos, a quiet patch of California, and for most of its life it has worked on a single, unglamorous problem: how to make phone cameras…
Salesforce and Nvidia Build a Model That Knows CRM but Never Saw Customer Data
At Dreamforce on September 15, Salesforce unveiled Koa, a model built for one narrow job: reasoning over the data that lives in a company’s customer-relationship system. The model runs on…
Trump Calls AI Doom Warnings a Con on a Call With Jensen Huang
The phone rang mid-interview. Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, was onstage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on September 14 when President Donald Trump called in. What…
AI Stocks Fall for a Second Day as the 10-Year Yield Tops 5 Percent
On the morning of September 15, the 10-year Treasury yield touched 5 percent for the first time since 2007. Within hours, the move had found its target: the artificial-intelligence trade…
Justice Department Examines Nvidia’s Groq Deal
The U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust division has opened an investigation into Nvidia’s licensing agreement with the AI chip company Groq, examining whether the deal’s structure was designed to avoid a…
A $110 Billion Media Merger Heads to Settlement Talks
A federal magistrate judge ordered the parties in the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger dispute to sit down for two days of in-person settlement talks at the end of October. Magistrate…
