Amazon Raises Hardware Prices by Up to 60% as Memory Costs Bite
The price tags changed across Amazon’s hardware lineup on Aug. 21, and the increases were not subtle. Echo speakers, Fire TV devices, Kindle readers, and eero routers all cost more,…
SpaceX Plans $100 Billion Space Supercomputer With NVIDIA Vera Chips
The idea of putting a supercomputer in orbit has been discussed in engineering circles for decades, usually as a thought experiment about solar power and cooling. On Aug. 25, it…
Apple Unveils M6 Mac Mini and M5 Ultra Mac Studio Ahead of CEO Handoff
The timing was the surprise. On the morning of Aug. 25, Apple announced new versions of the Mac mini and Mac Studio with no event, no keynote, and a press…
SK Hynix Union Rejects Preliminary Wage Deal
The vote was close enough to hurt. By a margin of 50.08% to 49.92%, with turnout of 93.81%, the union at SK Hynix, the world’s second-largest memory-chip maker, has rejected…
Bill Gates Warns AI Has Passed Danger Points Society Isn’t Discussing
Bill Gates has spent years as the world’s most prominent optimist about technology, a man who predicted personal computers, the internet, and smartphones before most people saw them coming. In…
Wall Street Turns Bullish on Celestica as AI Build-Out Accelerates
The math is unusual for a company that makes boxes: 23 analysts cover Celestica, the Toronto-based maker of computing hardware for data centers, and 20 of them say buy. One…
Former Google Researchers Raise $6.5 Million to Build an AI ‘Judge’
Rishub Jain, a former Google researcher, spent years watching AI models grow more capable and less predictable. Now he is betting that the answer is a referee: a human-machine system…
OpenAI Infrastructure Executive Chris Malone Departs
Chris Malone, the executive who oversaw construction of OpenAI’s data centers, has left the company, according to people familiar with the matter. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed that Malone is no…
OpenAI Restores Five-Hour Usage Cap on ChatGPT Plus
On the morning of Aug. 25, a familiar message returned for some ChatGPT Plus subscribers: usage limit reached. OpenAI has restored its rolling five-hour cap for the standard tier of…
Anthropic Pitches Investors on $30 Trillion Market Ahead of Planned IPO
The pitch begins with a number that dwarfs the global economy: more than $30 trillion. Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, plans to tell prospective investors that its…
