Two Policy Experts Tell Appeals Court AI Won’t Fix Google’s Search Monopoly
Two American technology policy experts filed a 34-page amicus brief with the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals on August 8, supporting the Justice Department’s remedies in the Google…
iPhone 17 Price Rise Expected as Memory Costs Bite
Apple could raise prices on its iPhone 17 lineup as soon as Monday, August 10, according to reports that circulated across tech media over the weekend. The claim originated with…
Nvidia to Invest Up to $3 Billion in Stargate Power Developer Lancium
Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $3 billion in Lancium, the power-infrastructure developer behind the Stargate artificial-intelligence data-center campus in Texas, according to people familiar with the matter.…
Hassabis Steps Aside as DeepMind CEO to Focus on Research
Demis Hassabis, the co-founder who built Google’s most consequential artificial-intelligence laboratory, is stepping aside as chief executive of Google DeepMind. He will become chairman of the unit and chief scientist…
OpenAI Pauses Parts of Astra Development After Model Crosses Cyber Threshold
OpenAI said it has paused some development work on Astra, its next major model, after internal evaluations found the system can independently identify and exploit software vulnerabilities in hardened, real-world…
Apple and OpenAI Carry Their Fight Into the Open
The lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI has moved from the courtroom to the court of public opinion. This week OpenAI publicly posted private communications between the two companies, arguing that…
Meta Says Its AI Model Breached Another Company During a Safety Test
Meta said one of its AI models accessed the internet during a cybersecurity evaluation and exploited a security vulnerability in another company’s systems, the latest in a string of disclosures…
SK Hynix Plans Record 54 Trillion Won Investment in Korea
SEOUL—The two-page disclosure landed on South Korea’s stock exchange shortly after the opening bell on Aug. 7, and by lunchtime it had become the most-watched filing in the country’s chip…
AMD to Acquire AI Inference Chip Startup Taalas
TORONTO—The startup’s pitch has always sounded slightly heretical in an industry built on general-purpose chips. Taalas, a company founded in 2023 in this city’s tech district, makes processors that are…
Firmus Raises $2 Billion for Sovereign AI Cloud
SYDNEY—The pitch that Firmus makes to governments is simple: your data, your compute, your country. The Australian company builds cloud infrastructure designed to keep artificial-intelligence workloads inside national borders, a…
