Isomorphic Labs Returns to Market Seeking a $40 Billion Price
Five months after closing its largest financing, the artificial-intelligence drug company spun out of Google DeepMind is back in front of investors, this time with a much bigger number attached…
OpenAI Pushes Its IPO to 2027 to Hold the $1 Trillion Price
Sam Altman has set a specific price on OpenAI’s public debut: $1 trillion. He is now willing to wait a year to get it. OpenAI is leaning toward delaying its…
Anthropic Cuts Its Models Off From the Internet
Anthropic sells its agents as tools any professional can trust with a browser, an inbox and a search bar. This week the company admitted that its own models, turned loose…
Nadella Wants an Emergency Brake on Frontier Models
Satya Nadella has spent the past few years telling the world that artificial intelligence is the biggest platform shift Microsoft has ever ridden. On Saturday, the company’s chief executive argued…
Nvidia Weighs Buying the Open-Model Lab It Funded
Nvidia has already written one large check to Reflection AI — roughly $800 million to back a two-year-old lab that builds open models for automated programming. Now the chipmaker is…
A Nvidia-Backed Startup Wants Rival AI Chips to Talk
The largest AI data centers are built around one supplier’s chips and one supplier’s way of wiring them together. A Santa Clara startup carrying Nvidia’s money is betting that arrangement…
Google Shrinks Its Free AI Assistant to a Single Model
Opening the Gemini app on October 9 meant something different for people who had never paid Google a cent. The heavier models were gone. Free users woke to a single…
A Five-Year-Old Intel Socket Readies Itself for New Chips
For PC builders, the most consequential Intel news of the week did not come from Intel. It came from Gigabyte, the Taiwanese motherboard maker, which posted a BIOS update on…
Micron Readies a $35 Billion Buyback as Its Taiwan Workers Prepare to Walk Out
The two numbers arrived within days of each other and told opposite stories. Micron’s board authorized a share repurchase program of up to $35.16 billion, effective December 9. In Taiwan,…
Apple Quietly Hires the Team Behind a Defunct Audio App
The app had a short, bright life and a quiet end. Huxe, a startup that turned a person’s email and calendar into a personalized audio briefing, shut down its service…
