Microsoft Turns Its Sales Force Against OpenAI, Google and Anthropic
The training sessions have a new script. Microsoft is instructing its global sales teams to push the company’s own Copilot AI models over products from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, according…
EU Orders Google to Open Android and Search Data to AI Rivals
Brussels acted on Thursday, and the order was sweeping. The European Commission issued two legally binding specification measures against Google under the Digital Markets Act, forcing the company to give…
Apple’s AI Finally Clears China’s Regulators, With Help From Alibaba and Baidu
The wait lasted two years. Apple Intelligence, the iPhone maker’s suite of generative AI features, has been approved by China’s Cyberspace Administration for launch in the country, according to people…
NVIDIA’s Japan Deal Builds a National AI Factory on Rubin Chips
The stage was set in Tokyo, and the setting was unusual even for NVIDIA. Chief executive Jensen Huang appeared on July 16 alongside Japan’s trade minister, Ryosei Akazawa, to announce…
Anthropic Lines Up Credit, Blackstone Venture Ahead of IPO
The paperwork is piling up in the banks’ deal rooms. Anthropic is in talks with lenders about a multi-billion-dollar credit facility, according to people familiar with the matter, the kind…
TSMC Posts Record Quarter, Adds $100 Billion to Arizona Bet
The numbers came out of the earnings call in Taipei first. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported net income of 706.6 billion New Taiwan dollars, about $21.9 billion, for the second…
Anthropic Tailors Claude Prices for India, Its Largest Market Outside the U.S.
Anthropic introduced India-specific pricing for its Claude models this week, tailoring rates to a market that has become its largest outside the United States, according to TechCrunch. The Times of…
OpenAI Ships GPT-5.6 With Three Price Tiers Named Sol, Terra, and Luna
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 to the public this week, with the model split into three pricing tiers named after the sun, the earth, and the moon: Sol for flagship work, Terra…
General Fusion’s Nasdaq Debut Makes It the First Listed Fusion Company
A Vancouver company that has never delivered a watt of electricity to a grid began trading on the Nasdaq this week, and investors bid its shares up sharply on the…
SK Hynix’s U.S. Rally Collides With a Capacity-Reality Check
Since listing American depositary receipts in New York, SK Hynix’s shares have climbed sharply, with Barron’s describing American money as the Korean memory maker’s new growth engine. This week came…
