Researchers Use AI to Design New Viruses
BOSTON—The virus did not exist anywhere in nature, and it was designed in a laboratory by a machine that learned biology from text. American researchers said this week that they…
Alphabet Sells $25 Billion in Bonds as AI Demand Surges
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—The order book closed at roughly $115 billion, a pile of demand so large that it ranked among the biggest of the year. Alphabet said Thursday it has…
SanDisk Signs Eight Long-Term Memory Supply Deals
MILPITAS, Calif.—SanDisk’s chief executive has spent years listening to customers describe their demand in three-month windows, and he says the era of short planning horizons is over. Speaking on the…
Microsoft Opens Fourth Cloud Region in India
HYDERABAD—The cranes have come down and the servers are running. Microsoft said on Aug. 6 that its cloud region in Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana state, has officially opened, making…
OpenAI Expands Free ChatGPT With GPT-5.6 Luna
SAN FRANCISCO—The free tier of the most popular AI product on earth is about to get bigger. OpenAI said on Aug. 6 that it is updating its ChatGPT experience, giving…
Firmus Raises $2 Billion for Sovereign AI Cloud
SYDNEY—The pitch that Firmus makes to governments is simple: your data, your compute, your country. The Australian company builds cloud infrastructure designed to keep artificial-intelligence workloads inside national borders, a…
AMD to Acquire AI Inference Chip Startup Taalas
TORONTO—The startup’s pitch has always sounded slightly heretical in an industry built on general-purpose chips. Taalas, a company founded in 2023 in this city’s tech district, makes processors that are…
SpaceX and Tesla Plan Chip-Making Complex in Texas
GRIMES COUNTY, Texas—The announcement went out late on Aug. 6 with the kind of numbers that usually accompany national infrastructure projects, not corporate press releases. SpaceX and Tesla, the two…
SK Hynix Plans Record 54 Trillion Won Investment in Korea
SEOUL—The two-page disclosure landed on South Korea’s stock exchange shortly after the opening bell on Aug. 7, and by lunchtime it had become the most-watched filing in the country’s chip…
Memory Shortage Reaches Consumers: Graphics Cards Up 20%, Qualcomm Next
MSI’s price bulletins went out this week, and the numbers were blunt: graphics cards up more than 20%, with the company blaming the cost of memory. The move followed ASUS…
