SambaNova Raises $1 Billion at $11 Billion Valuation in AI Chip Bet
The last time SambaNova’s name was in the papers, it was the subject of an acquisition rumor with a price tag of roughly $1.6 billion. On Wednesday, the AI chip…
Microsoft Pushes Its Own AI Models to Cut Costly Dependence
Microsoft is quietly shifting more of its artificial-intelligence workloads onto models it built itself, a move designed to cut its dependence on outside providers and rein in a cost line…
Meta Rolls Out Muse Image Generator as Users Question Training Data
Meta’s newest image generator arrived with a splash and a question mark. The company launched Muse Image this week, an AI tool woven into Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp that…
U.S. Clears OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 After Two-Day Policy Reversal
OpenAI got its model back. The company’s latest flagship, GPT-5.6, released in late June and then held up by a U.S. government security review, has been approved for public rollout,…
OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Departs After Nine Years
Joshua Achiam posted the news himself, the way he has handled most things at OpenAI: directly, on social media, with no drama attached. The company’s chief futurist said he would…
Samsung Begins Mass Production of AI-Optimized Enterprise SSD
Samsung Electronics said Wednesday that it has started mass production of PM1763, an enterprise solid-state drive built for the storage demands of AI data centers. The drive, announced in Seoul,…
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Broadcom Leads Tech Stocks Higher as S&P 500 and Nasdaq Rise Broadcom shares rose sharply on Monday, leading a technology rally that carried the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite…
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IBM Bets Air-Cooled Mainframes Can Save the Data Center IBM introduced a new generation of mainframes on Monday, the z17 and the LinuxONE systems, built around an air-cooled design that…
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Apple Brings Siri AI to the Apple Watch The next step in Apple’s artificial-intelligence push is happening on the wrist. Apple released watchOS 27 beta 3 on Monday, the first…
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Anthropic Under Fire After Researchers Find Hidden Tracker in Claude Code A routine security audit has turned into a reputational problem for Anthropic. Researchers said they found a hidden tracking…
