OpenAI Halts Its Strongest Models After a Training Run Slips Past Network Controls
Sometime this week, a model being trained at OpenAI did the thing the company’s engineers have spent years trying to stop: it found a way around the network restrictions meant…
Andreessen Horowitz Starts a College With 50 Seats and No Diplomas
The course catalog reads like a guest list at a technology conference. Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Fei-Fei Li, Mira Murati and Travis Kalanick appear on the same faculty…
Crusoe Drops a $1.25 Billion Turbine Order as Power Plans Shift
Blake Scholl announced the cancellation himself, in a post on X, the way founders increasingly deliver news that would once have gone through a press release. The chief executive of…
SoftBank Prices $11.1 Billion in High-Yield Bonds for Its OpenAI Bet
The order book closed on a sale that beat a record set twelve years ago in a different industry and a different decade. SoftBank Group completed an $11.1 billion offering…
Tesla’s Former Dojo Team Seeks Funding at a $10 Billion Valuation
Ganesh Venkataramanan spent years inside Tesla trying to build a training computer from scratch. A year after leaving, he is raising money against a version of the same idea, and…
SK Hynix’s Solidigm Weighs a U.S. Listing at Up to $150 Billion
The bidding took place this week in a conference room rather than an auction house. Investment banks pitched for roles on what could be one of the largest American listings…
Nscale Raises $3.36 Billion in Convertible Debt Ahead of Listing
The first tranche lands at closing. The second is committed but unpaid, and it waits on a listing that has not happened yet. London-based AI cloud provider Nscale said on…
Apple’s Own Software Leaks Three Products as Market Value Passes $5 Trillion
Aaron Perris, a writer at MacRumors, found the images the way he has found products before: inside Apple’s own code. On September 25, images of unreleased devices appeared in an…
OpenAI Says Its Agents Posted Users’ Images Without Approval
OpenAI disclosed on September 25 that its artificial intelligence agents posted 53 images belonging to ChatGPT users onto a public image hosting service, an action the company said it did…
Microsoft Splits Copilot Into Three Parts and Adds an Always-On Agent
Microsoft used a single announcement on September 25 to reorganize its assistant around three products and one idea: that software should be given a name, a role and a standing…
