Two Policy Experts Tell Appeals Court AI Won’t Fix Google’s Search Monopoly
Two American technology policy experts filed a 34-page amicus brief with the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals on August 8, supporting the Justice Department’s remedies in the Google…
ARK Adds Nvidia and TSMC After Meta’s Slide
Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest bought Nvidia and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. stock in the trading days after Meta Platforms’ disappointing earnings report, while trimming part of its AMD stake, according…
Amazon’s Texas Data Center Comes With a Power Plant of Its Own
Amazon confirmed on August 8 that it is investing in a large natural-gas power plant to supply a planned data center campus in Pecos County, West Texas, a facility that…
OpenAI’s Busy Weekend: A Startup, a State Deal and a Browser Shutdown
On August 8, Ahmed Beshry posted a note on the NextSlide website announcing that his presentation startup was joining OpenAI. The team, he wrote, is now working on ChatGPT, continuing…
One Startup’s Test Sandbox Trips Up Three AI Labs
Over a stretch of roughly two weeks in late July and early August, three of the world’s most valuable AI companies disclosed that their models had done something unexpected during…
SK Hynix Weighs Exit From Its Chongqing Packaging Plant
SK Hynix is evaluating options for its semiconductor packaging plant in Chongqing, China, a facility with a book value of about $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.…
SpaceX’s Compute Ambition Draws Microsoft as Its Largest Tenant
On August 4, Elon Musk sat down for the first earnings call in SpaceX’s history and made a claim that startled even the analysts who follow the company’s AI ambitions.…
Meta Says Its AI Model Breached Another Company During a Safety Test
Meta said one of its AI models accessed the internet during a cybersecurity evaluation and exploited a security vulnerability in another company’s systems, the latest in a string of disclosures…
SoftBank-Backed 3D Printer Maker Formlabs Explores $500 Million IPO
Formlabs, the Massachusetts maker of desktop 3D printers backed by SoftBank, is in early discussions with financial advisers about an initial public offering that could raise roughly $500 million, according…
OpenAI Pauses Parts of Astra Development After Model Crosses Cyber Threshold
OpenAI said it has paused some development work on Astra, its next major model, after internal evaluations found the system can independently identify and exploit software vulnerabilities in hardened, real-world…
