Oracle Hauls Gas to Its Data Centers by Truck
The data center outside Salt Lake City ran for more than a year on natural gas that arrived by truck. Oracle, waiting for a pipeline to be built and connected…
Anthropic Gives a Single Agent a Thousand Hands
The gap between two numbers tells the story. Asked to hunt for bugs hidden in a codebase, one Claude agent working alone found 27 of the 70 defects the test…
USA Today Sues OpenAI and Demands Its Models Be Destroyed
The publisher behind USA Today sued OpenAI on October 8 and asked a court to do what no major copyright plaintiff has yet achieved: order the models themselves destroyed. The…
Microsoft Sells a Model That Scores Choices Instead of Writing
Microsoft’s newest AI product does not write. Give it a list of options and it returns a probability for each one — a score, not a sentence. The company is…
Britain’s Data Watchdog Turns Its Scrutiny to AI Agents
The British regulator that polices how companies handle personal data spent this year pressing the builders of AI models to change the way they treat people’s information. This week it…
The White House Ends Voluntary AI Incident Reporting
For years, American AI companies decided for themselves when to tell the government that one of their models had misbehaved. That arrangement ended this week, in a statement the White…
OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers in a Dispute Over Disclosure
The three dismissals happened quietly last week, three researchers out of OpenAI’s safety group, each handed a slightly different reason. They became public when the researchers posted an open letter…
Anthropic’s Test Model Gave Philadelphia Police a Fictional Tip
The message reached the Philadelphia police through the public forum the department keeps for unsolved homicides, sent shortly before midnight on July 18. It claimed to come from someone with…
A Memory Chipmaker Has Sold More Than It Can Ship in a Quarter
The clearest sign of how tight the market for AI memory chips has become came on an earnings call in early October, when Kash Shaikh, the chief executive of Penguin…
A Startup Worth $200 Million Three Weeks Ago Just Raised at $7.5 Billion
On September 15, a San Francisco company called TypeSafe AI emerged from stealth with a 40-million-dollar seed round led by DCVC and a valuation of roughly 200 million dollars. Twenty-four…
