OpenAI’s First Gadget Is a $230 Keyboard Built for AI Agents
The device looks like a prop from a science fiction film set. Codex Micro, OpenAI’s first consumer hardware product, is a compact desktop keyboard with a row of programmable keys,…
Meta Faces Class Action Over AI Screening That Targeted Workers on Leave
The spreadsheet made it to court. Meta is facing a class-action lawsuit, first reported by the Los Angeles Times, alleging that the company used an AI system to analyze employee…
ASML Lifts Outlook on AI Chip Demand, Faces New Export Scrutiny
The order book told the story before the executives did. ASML, the Dutch company that makes the lithography machines used to print the world’s most advanced chips, reported second-quarter results…
AMD Keeps Falling Even as Wall Street Raises Its Targets
The upgrades kept coming, and the stock kept falling. Advanced Micro Devices shares slid again on Thursday, extending a run of losses, even as UBS and Bank of America raised…
EU Opens Three-Year Antitrust Case Against Broadcom
The pressure has been building for months, and on Thursday it became official. The European Commission has opened a three-year antitrust case against Broadcom, according to people familiar with the…
Apple Courts Chip Startups as AI Server Plans Slip
The call came in quietly. Over the past weeks, executives from Apple’s silicon group have reached out to a handful of semiconductor startups to sound out interest in an acquisition,…
Samsung Weighs Outsourcing Google TPU Design Work to Korean Houses
Inside Samsung Electronics’ chip design offices, the workload keeps growing. The company’s foundry division has been winning more orders as customers race to secure manufacturing capacity for AI chips, and…
Anthropic Steps Up IPO Prep With Investor Meetings
The meetings are starting to appear on calendars. Anthropic executives have begun sitting down with prospective investors, according to a person familiar with the plans, as the artificial intelligence company…
Microsoft Reshapes Security Unit Around AI, Cutting Hundreds of Jobs
The memo was blunt. “The entire industry is getting reimagined from the ground up,” Hayete Gallot told Microsoft’s security staff in an internal message reported this week. “A few months…
OpenAI Asks Court to Dismiss xAI Suit and Collect Legal Fees
The filing arrived Monday morning with a blunt demand: OpenAI asked a federal judge to declare that xAI’s trade-secret lawsuit “should never have been brought,” and to order Elon Musk’s…
