Dropbox’s Drew Houston Hands Over the CEO Role
In 2007, Drew Houston forgot a USB drive on a bus from Boston to New York, and the annoyance became a company. The frustration of carrying files on physical media…
Anthropic Nears a $900 Billion Valuation, Topping OpenAI
Dario Amodei has spent five years telling investors that Anthropic would eventually be worth more than the company he left. This month, that claim is on the verge of coming…
AMD Starts Making Its First 2-Nanometer Server Chip
The wafers are moving through the fab now, and each one represents a bet that AMD’s engineers have been working toward for years. Advanced Micro Devices said this week that…
OpenClaw Builders Warn AI Code Is Quietly Rotting the Software Stack
The warning comes from an unlikely source: two engineers who helped build one of the most popular AI coding tools in the world. In interviews published this week, they said…
GPT-5’s Wider Net: OpenAI Opens Flagship Model to Free Users
The shift arrived over the weekend without a banner. Users of ChatGPT’s free tier opened the app and found a model they had never been given before: GPT-5, OpenAI’s flagship…
xAI’s $6 Billion Raise: Musk’s AI Lab Valued at $40 Billion
Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence company has a new price tag. xAI said it closed a $6 billion Series C round that values the firm at $40 billion, with Fidelity and Valor…
Starship’s Fuel Handoff: SpaceX Masters In-Orbit Propellant Transfer
Two Starship vehicles met in orbit this week and did something no pair of spacecraft had done before at this scale: one passed roughly 100 metric tons of supercooled liquid…
Anthropic Nears a $30 Billion Raise, Closing In on OpenAI’s Valuation
For the first time, corporate spending on Claude has edged past spending on ChatGPT, according to data that investors have been passing around this month. Ramp’s April AI Index, a…
Meta’s Forum App Takes On Reddit, Quietly
There was no press release and no keynote. One morning last week, an app called Forum appeared on Apple’s App Store, and by Friday it had a name in Silicon…
TSMC’s Bonus Math: Record Profit, Restless Workers
The complaints spilled across employee forums this week in a tone TSMC rarely hears from its own people: anger. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract chipmaker, posted record…
