Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ Record MLCC Supply Deal for AI Servers
SEOUL—The most important parts inside an artificial-intelligence server are also the easiest to overlook. Alongside the accelerators that do the computing sit thousands of multilayer ceramic capacitors, tiny components that…
Apple Hands New CEO Ternus a $55 Million Award on Top of a $3 Million Salary
CUPERTINO, Calif.—John Ternus took over as Apple’s chief executive on Sept. 1. A day later, shareholders learned what the job pays. Apple disclosed in a filing with the Securities and…
Nvidia Nears Deal to Buy Hugging Face for About $14 Billion
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—The world’s dominant seller of artificial-intelligence chips is in talks to buy the site where many of those chips get their software. Nvidia is in advanced discussions to…
OpenAI Says Its Next Model Finds Zero-Day Flaws Without Help
SAN FRANCISCO—OpenAI said its next flagship model can do what elite security researchers do for a living, and do it without being shown how. The company described the capabilities in…
Texas Pauses New Data-Center Hookups as Power Requests Swell
AUSTIN, Texas—The state that spent years inviting the world’s data centers to plug in has told the next ones to wait. Texas has become the first state to freeze new…
OpenAI Faces 30 New Lawsuits Over Canadian School Shooting
SAN FRANCISCO—Lawyers from the plaintiffs firm Edelson PC filed 30 complaints in federal court here on Sept. 2 naming OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, over the Feb. 10…
Anthropic Cuts Cache-Read Prices 75% in New Model Release
A coding agent working through a project can resend the same files, instructions and conversation history to a model dozens of times in an hour. Each resend shows up on…
ECB Warns U.S. Tech Giants’ AI Borrowing Could Strain Euro Markets
The euro-area corporate bond market has acquired a new class of regular customer: American technology companies borrowing to pay for artificial-intelligence infrastructure. In a blog post on Sept. 2, the…
Micron’s Taiwan Unions Threaten Strike Over Profit Sharing
Two unions representing about 10,000 of the roughly 15,000 workers at Micron Technology’s plants in Taiwan say they will put a strike to a vote unless the company rebuilds its…
Microsoft 365 Outage Enters Third Day Without Recovery Date
A configuration error in the service that verifies users of Microsoft 365 entered its third day Wednesday with no full recovery date, even as email service largely came back. Microsoft…
