Anthropic Launches Claude Science, a Workbench for Researchers
The frustration is familiar in any lab: a researcher has a stack of papers, a pile of experimental data and a question that spans both. General-purpose chatbots can summarize the…
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.6 Sol Preview Ahead of Regulatory Review
The name is a sun reference, and the timing is pointed. OpenAI has released a preview version of its next flagship model under the name GPT-5.6 Sol, giving customers an…
Blackstone’s Retail Fund Posts Best Month on Anthropic Stake
A letter that went out to investors in Blackstone’s flagship retail fund this month carried a figure the firm had never printed for the vehicle before. Class I shares of…
Microsoft Prepares to Fold Consumer and Business Copilot Into One App
An internal memo circulating at Microsoft this week lays out a plan that would erase one of the company’s most visible product boundaries. The software maker intends to merge the…
Zuckerberg Tells Employees AI Agent Work Isn’t Moving Fast Enough
Mark Zuckerberg’s message to employees this week cut against the tone of Meta Platforms’ public AI push. In an internal meeting, the chief executive said the company’s AI agent development…
Seoul Weighs 5 Trillion Won Windfall to Fund Homegrown AI Models
South Korea’s finance ministry is tallying an unexpected windfall from the semiconductor boom, and a growing faction of officials wants to spend part of it on artificial intelligence. The government…
SoftBank Revives $10 Billion Loan Backed by OpenAI Stake
The loan talks fell apart this spring, and the reasons were familiar to anyone who has tried to borrow money against a private company. Banks could not agree on what…
Jensen Huang’s Leather Jacket Goes to Auction at Sotheby’s
The black leather jacket is not a piece of clothing so much as a corporate symbol, the one garment the most valuable chip company’s chief executive has worn through two…
Goldman Says Investors Are Shedding Big Tech for Semiconductors
The trade is showing up in options prices before it shows up in most portfolios. The cost of hedging a decline in the Invesco QQQ ETF, the exchange-traded fund that…
Korea Unveils 312 Trillion Won Plan to Keep Advanced Industry in the Southeast
The announcement came with a number that dwarfed every industrial plan Seoul has offered in years. South Korea’s deputy prime minister and minister of economy and finance, Koo Yoon-cheol, said…
