Synopsys and OpenAI Build a Model That Runs Chip-Design Tools
For years, the hardest job in the chip industry has been invisible from the outside: taking a circuit described in a code-like language and deciding how to lay out billions…
Apple Says OpenAI Is Adding Arguments Mid-Trade-Secrets Case
The fight over who owns Apple’s hardware secrets has turned into a fight over how the lawsuit itself may be argued. Apple told a federal court this week that OpenAI…
OpenAI Is Sued Over the Astra Name
The name “Astra” has been attached to a small California company’s software since 2021, long before the world’s most valuable AI lab decided it liked the word. TradeSun Inc. sells…
Samsung Electro-Mechanics Adds $1.85 Billion in Vietnam
The factory sits in an industrial park in Thai Nguyen province, a two-hour drive north of Hanoi, where Samsung has been making electronics for more than a decade. The plant,…
SoftBank-Backed DayOne Files for a Nasdaq Listing
The asset that will decide whether DayOne becomes one of the year’s biggest listings is not a single building. It is a map. The Singapore-headquartered company runs data centers across…
Micron Pays $600 Million to End Netlist Patent Fight
For years, Netlist has been the small company that would not go away. The Irvine, California firm owns a portfolio of patents covering the memory modules and high-bandwidth memory that…
Claude’s Biggest Customers Start to Pull Back
Anthropic has spent the past two years signing up the companies that once looked like its most natural rivals. Microsoft invested billions. Meta’s engineers adopted Claude Code by the tens…
The Pentagon’s Long Exit From Anthropic’s Claude
The confirmation came in a sentence delivered to the BBC on Sunday. “The Pentagon has ceased the use of Anthropic products,” a Defense Department official said, closing a six-month phase-out…
Wikipedia’s Operator Points at OpenAI’s Agents
The blog post landed on Monday with a headline that read like a warning from one of the internet’s oldest institutions to one of its newest. The Wikimedia Foundation, the…
Nvidia’s $279 Billion Claim on AI Memory
The number that moved through Morgan Stanley’s latest note was not a revenue forecast or a margin target. It was a line on Nvidia’s balance sheet: $279 billion, the sum…
