OpenAI Buys Its Way Into the Trial Calendar
A single failed manufacturing batch can push back the start of a clinical trial by months. The delay then ripples through enrollment targets, site contracts, regulatory filings and the cash…
Meta’s Muse Passes 10 Million U.S. Downloads, With Retention as the Open Question
Meta Platforms spent the past month marketing an AI companion app the way a consumer goods company markets a new detergent. In October it put 39 percent of its advertising…
SpaceX’s AI Business Is Now Bigger Than Its Rockets
For most of its twenty-four years, SpaceX sold one thing: the ability to put mass in orbit more cheaply than anyone else. On Tuesday evening, Elon Musk spent the opening…
Google Puts a More Personal Gemini Behind the Wheel
Ask the assistant in a new Volvo or Honda where your flight leaves from, and it may answer without being told which flight. Google said Tuesday that Gemini in its…
Pichai Leaves the Door Open on Apple
The question was narrow. Sundar Pichai was asked whether the arrangement under which Google supplies the model behind Apple’s Siri is expanding, contracting or holding steady. His answer, on Alex…
Nvidia Puts the Data Center in a Shipping Container
Jensen Huang walked onto the stage at the Tempodrom in Berlin on Wednesday in the middle of a selloff. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index was extending its longest losing streak since…
Supermicro Lifts Sales Forecast by $4 Billion as AI Server Demand Outruns Its Own Guidance
Super Micro Computer told investors on Tuesday that it expects revenue of $18.5 billion to $19.5 billion for the quarter ended September 30, up from the $14.5 billion to $15.5…
The Buildout Larry Fink Says Cannot Wait
For two years the argument about artificial intelligence has been about whether too much money is being spent on it. Larry Fink used a stage in Berlin on Wednesday to…
A Judge Lets the NAACP’s Case Against xAI Continue
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — The turbines stand in a field a few miles south of the Tennessee line: 27 of them, running on methane gas, supplying power to a data center…
Yelp Sends an Agent to Make the Call
The button sits on a restaurant’s page inside the Yelp app and is labeled “Check for Me.” A user enters a party size and a phone number, closes the app,…
