Tenstorrent Hires Bankers as the Chip Startup Weighs Its Options
For five years Tenstorrent has sold itself as the chip company that would rather license its designs than become another capital-hungry manufacturer of accelerators. On October 17 the company hired…
Apple Pushes iPhone Duo Buyers Online as Stores Turn Away Walk-Ins
On the morning the iPhone Duo went on sale, the line outside Apple’s stores formed the way it has for a decade: folding chairs, coffee, a few people who had…
Qualcomm Disputes Korean Test Results That Its New Snapdragon Runs Hot
The report reached Seoul’s technology press on Oct. 17: under sustained load, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 ran hot enough to raise questions about whether Samsung would use…
Samsung Adds $22.8 Million for Texas Workers and Schools
The road into Taylor, Texas, runs past a school district, a row of grain silos and, since 2022, a construction site large enough to see from the county highway. On…
OpenAI Dismisses an Engineer Accused of Bugging an Executive Meeting Room
OpenAI confirmed on October 18 that it had dismissed an employee accused of placing a recording device in an executive meeting room at its San Francisco office, a case that…
Replit Makes OpenAI Its Default Model, Ending Its Anthropic Arrangement
Amjad Masad was on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 17 when the question of which models sit behind Replit’s coding agent came up, and his answer reversed what the…
The AI Credit Market Puts a Price on Doubt
The bond pays 9.75 percent and matures in 2031, and this week it was quoted at a yield to maturity of 15.78 percent, a level that in most of the…
Meta Deletes a Clause About Web Scraping and Leaves the Rest of the Terms Standing
For a few hours this week, the contract that governs how millions of businesses use Meta’s advertising and commerce tools contained a sentence that the lawyers who read it found…
Microsoft Exits a UK Data Center Deal as the Grid Sets the Timetable
The site is in Loughton, in Essex, a short drive northeast of London, on land that has been cleared for a data hall and prepared for equipment that has not…
Toyota Plans to Put Its Software Platform in Every Car by 2030
At an investor technology briefing in Japan earlier this month, Toyota Motor put a number on a slide that its engineers had been circling for five years. By 2030, roughly…
