Google Opens Gemini 4 Argon to All Developers and Cuts the Price
Google opened its flagship model Gemini 4 Argon to every developer and enterprise customer on October 13, ending a limited release that had kept the model behind a security program…
Intel Names Its Inference Card and Starts Shipping Samples
Intel gave its data-center inference accelerator a product name and a customer sampling program on October 12, a small step in a long campaign to sell into a market its…
Meta Puts a Meter on Its Best Model
Meta Platforms released its first frontier-class artificial intelligence model on October 12 and put a price on it, ending the company’s run as the industry’s most generous donor of free…
Microsoft Puts Its Own Silicon at the Center of Azure
For four years Microsoft has run the largest rental business in computing on accelerators designed by Nvidia. On Monday it told customers and rivals where it intends to stand in…
Ledger Suspects Its Supply Chain After $86 Million Vanishes From Wallets
Ledger, the French maker of hardware wallets for crypto, said on October 9 that it is investigating the theft of roughly $86 million in digital assets from user wallets, and…
A Nvidia-Backed Startup Wants Rival AI Chips to Talk
The largest AI data centers are built around one supplier’s chips and one supplier’s way of wiring them together. A Santa Clara startup carrying Nvidia’s money is betting that arrangement…
Cloudflare Gives Its Decision Model Ears and Eyes
The model Cloudflare built to answer questions without writing a single sentence can now watch video and listen to audio. On October 9 the company released Clef-omni, extending its family…
USA Today Sues OpenAI and Demands Its Models Be Destroyed
The publisher behind USA Today sued OpenAI on October 8 and asked a court to do what no major copyright plaintiff has yet achieved: order the models themselves destroyed. The…
A Startup Worth $200 Million Three Weeks Ago Just Raised at $7.5 Billion
On September 15, a San Francisco company called TypeSafe AI emerged from stealth with a 40-million-dollar seed round led by DCVC and a valuation of roughly 200 million dollars. Twenty-four…
A Dark Web Bazaar Ends in a 40-Year Sentence
Raheim Hamilton was 30 years old when a federal judge in Chicago handed down the sentence on Monday: 40 years in prison, a $5 million fine, and the loss of…
