TSMC Posts Record July Revenue on AI Orders
TAIPEI–The monthly revenue report from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has become a ritual for the global chip industry, a monthly check on whether the artificial-intelligence boom is still feeding through…
Intel’s $15 Billion Offering Bets on AI Boom
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Intel’s stock had a rough stretch in recent years, as the company lost its lead in chip manufacturing and watched its market value shrink. This week, the company…
Anthropic Eases Biosafety Limits on Claude Fable 5
SAN FRANCISCO–A researcher trying to interpret a lab experiment on Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, would previously watch the model suddenly refuse the request or hand the task to a less…
iPhone 17 Price Rise Expected as Memory Costs Bite
Apple could raise prices on its iPhone 17 lineup as soon as Monday, August 10, according to reports that circulated across tech media over the weekend. The claim originated with…
Two Policy Experts Tell Appeals Court AI Won’t Fix Google’s Search Monopoly
Two American technology policy experts filed a 34-page amicus brief with the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals on August 8, supporting the Justice Department’s remedies in the Google…
ARK Adds Nvidia and TSMC After Meta’s Slide
Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest bought Nvidia and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. stock in the trading days after Meta Platforms’ disappointing earnings report, while trimming part of its AMD stake, according…
OpenAI’s Busy Weekend: A Startup, a State Deal and a Browser Shutdown
On August 8, Ahmed Beshry posted a note on the NextSlide website announcing that his presentation startup was joining OpenAI. The team, he wrote, is now working on ChatGPT, continuing…
One Startup’s Test Sandbox Trips Up Three AI Labs
Over a stretch of roughly two weeks in late July and early August, three of the world’s most valuable AI companies disclosed that their models had done something unexpected during…
SpaceX’s Compute Ambition Draws Microsoft as Its Largest Tenant
On August 4, Elon Musk sat down for the first earnings call in SpaceX’s history and made a claim that startled even the analysts who follow the company’s AI ambitions.…
Meta Says Its AI Model Breached Another Company During a Safety Test
Meta said one of its AI models accessed the internet during a cybersecurity evaluation and exploited a security vulnerability in another company’s systems, the latest in a string of disclosures…
