Positron AI Raises $875 Million With a Bet Against Scarce Memory
The chip startup is gambling that the most expensive part of an AI server can be designed around. Positron, an AI inference chip company, said on Friday it raised $875…
Texas Judge Rules TikTok Misled Users on Content Filtering
The ruling came from a state court in Texas, and it turned on a narrow question of what TikTok told its users. A judge found on Thursday that TikTok violated…
California Signs Laws Limiting Teen Social Media and AI Chatbots
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a package of bills on Thursday that reaches into two of the state’s most visible technology markets, restricting addictive social media features for users under…
Universal Music Licenses Its Catalog to ElevenLabs
The record industry spent two years suing the companies that let people make music with AI. On Thursday, the world’s largest label chose a different route for itself. Universal Music…
Samsung Mocks Apple’s Foldable as the Rivalry Moves to Social Media
Apple had barely finished talking about the iPhone 18 Pro when Samsung’s US arm posted on X: “So far, so same,” with a hashtag telling people it was time to…
Apple Splits Its iPhone Launch Into Two Seasons
The detail that analysts kept returning to on Wednesday was the phone that did not appear. Apple’s September 9 event introduced the iPhone 18 Pro, the Pro Max, and the…
Memory Prices Reach Consumers as Micron Hands Out Record Bonuses
The bonus is the size of a career. Micron has told employees in Taiwan they will receive payments of up to 68 months of salary, according to a CNBC report…
Saudi Fund Weighs Folding EA Into Its Games Unit
The Saudi sovereign fund bought Electronic Arts outright last month. Now it is weighing whether to fold the publisher into the games company it already owns. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment…
Nasdaq Takes $100 Million Stake in Kraken’s Parent
The stock exchange and the crypto exchange are no longer just neighbors in the same sentence. Nasdaq said on Thursday that its venture arm will invest $100 million in Payward,…

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