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
SpaceX’s Starship Is Set to Carry Its First Commercial Payload
The world’s largest rocket has flown thirteen times, and every one of those flights carried test hardware or nothing at all. The fourteenth, according to a Federal Aviation Administration airspace…
Revolut Hands Over Customer Data in a Phishing That Passed Every Check
A fraudster who wanted the personal records of Revolut customers did not hack a server or crack a password. They sent a request that looked like it came from a…
Nscale Adds a Former OpenAI Deputy to Its Board Ahead of a U.S. Listing
Fidji Simo spent three years running the business side of OpenAI as chief executive of its AGI deployment arm, the second-in-command behind Sam Altman. Before that she led Instacart through…
Cohere in Talks to Raise Up to $3 Billion at a $20 Billion Valuation
A Toronto-based AI company that has spent three years positioning itself as the non-American alternative to OpenAI is now in talks to raise money on a scale no Canadian private…
Nvidia’s CEO Brushes Off the ‘Circular Financing’ Question
On a stage at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia+ technology conference on September 10, Jensen Huang was asked about the charge that has trailed Nvidia for more than a year: that the…
Microsoft Adds xAI’s Grok to Copilot’s Word, Excel and PowerPoint
A worker drafting a quarterly report in Word can now call on a model built by Elon Musk’s xAI without leaving the document. On September 12, Microsoft began rolling out…
Meta Faces a Privacy Suit Over Face Data Drawn From User Photos
A father in Illinois and his teenage son use Facebook and Instagram the way tens of millions of people do, posting photos without thinking about what happens to the faces…
Broadcom’s VMware Licensing Overhaul Draws Another Round of EU Questions
A European cloud provider renewed its VMware contract this year and opened a bill that was roughly eight times what it had paid the year before. Some customers report increases…
Ellison Cancels a $7.5 Billion Oracle Stock Sale
Larry Ellison set up the plan on June 22, and it was not public until September 11. The Oracle executive chairman had arranged, through a 10b5-1 trading plan, to sell…
Mullenweg Reclaims Automattic CEO Seat After Board Revolt
The board voted, and Matt Mullenweg refused to leave. The Automattic founder, who built the company behind WordPress, was placed on forced paid leave by his own directors last week,…
