Google Gives Publishers a New Tool to Steer AI Search Their Way
Google on Wednesday released Preferred Sources, a tool that lets publishers designate the sources they want featured in AI-generated search answers, an attempt to give news organizations more control over…
British Cinemas Move to Keep Meta’s AI Glasses Out of Their Screens
Cinemas across Britain have begun restricting Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses, worried that the devices’ cameras can be used to record new films, according to Reuters, which reported the restrictions on…
MacKenzie Scott’s New Novel Skips Publishers for a Free Substack Serial
The first installment of MacKenzie Scott’s third novel landed not in a bookstore or on a publisher’s spring list but on her personal Substack page, where subscribers found it waiting…
Amex GBT Agrees to $6.3 Billion Take-Private by Long Lake
Four years after riding a blank-check boom onto the New York Stock Exchange, the world’s largest corporate travel company is heading back into private hands. Long Lake Management agreed to…
Etched Raises $700 Million at $21 Billion Valuation
The first rack of Etched computers sits in a Jane Street data center, running inference workloads for the trading firm that just led the AI chip startup’s latest funding round.…
Marvell and Google Expand Custom-Chip Pact
The warrant is dated Aug. 18: Google may buy up to 58.97 million shares of Marvell Technology at $206.58 each, a document that ties the chip maker’s stock to the…
Nebius Plans $4.5 Billion Convertible Bond Sale
Nebius, the AI cloud company led by Yandex co-founder Arkady Volozh, is borrowing against its own stock to build data centers it says it cannot build fast enough. The company…
Nvidia in Talks to Back AI Data Supplier Mercor
The training data that powers Nvidia’s open-source model ambitions may soon have a new financial backer: Nvidia itself. The chip maker is in talks to invest in Mercor, an AI…
OpenAI Works to Restore ChatGPT Signup and Login
For several hours on Aug. 20, the front door to the world’s most popular AI chatbot was locked. Users began reporting problems with ChatGPT’s registration and login systems in the…
AI Chip Startup Fractile in Talks at $6.5 Billion Valuation
Anthropic wants to buy about $250 million of chips from a London startup most people have never heard of. That order is now at the center of one of the…
