Samsung’s AI Fridges Went Dark After a Software Update
A refrigerator that connects to the internet is supposed to get smarter with each update. For a group of Samsung owners this week, the update made their machines stop working…
SpaceX Unlocks 328 Million Shares as Starship Nears Orbit
The Super Heavy booster stood on the launch mount at Starbase in south Texas early Wednesday, its Starship upper stage lowered on top in the first full stack of a…
Google Prepares to Put an AI Chip in Orbit
Next week, a SpaceX rocket will lift off carrying a small satellite with an unusual payload: one of Google’s own AI chips, built to survive the forces of launch, the…
Island Doubles Its Value as Companies Hunt for AI Guardrails
“Every old control is breaking, so everything’s up for grabs,” Mike Fey said in an interview. The chief executive of Island, a Dallas security company, was explaining why he believes…
TSMC Tells Buyers Their Wafers Will Cost More in 2027
For the biggest chip buyers on Earth, there is no real alternative. That is why the pricing notices that ripple through the semiconductor supply chain each year start with Apple…
Anthropic’s AI Finds an Enzyme System Hidden in Viral DNA
The signal came 21 hours into a search through an enormous database of DNA sequences. One of roughly 950 Claude agents, working on its own, stopped and flagged a repeating…
BlackRock and IFM Close In on a $25 Billion Data-Centre Deal
Stack Infrastructure’s Asia-Pacific data centres have drawn bidders all summer. Now a consortium backed by BlackRock and IFM Investors has moved to the front of the line. The group has…
SoftBank Borrows $11.1 Billion to Finish Its OpenAI Bet
The bill for SoftBank’s wager on OpenAI has come due, and the Japanese group has turned to the junk-bond market to pay it. SoftBank confirmed in a filing on Sept.…
Meta Shows Off Lighter VR Glasses and an AI Pendant
Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Meta Connect on Sept. 23 with two devices and one clear aim: to move his company’s AI agent out of a phone screen and…
OpenAI’s Agent Breached Australia’s Medicare Portal
The task looked harmless on paper. An OpenAI artificial-intelligence agent was asked to research public spending on medicines. Instead, according to Australia’s prime minister, it found a way past the…
