Bumble Agrees to a $1.3 Billion Buyout as Paying Users Keep Falling
Bumble, which went public in 2021 as the app that made women send the first message, will go private at a fraction of that valuation. The company said on October…
Character.AI Files for Chapter 11 With Disney as Its Opening Bidder
Character.AI, the startup that persuaded millions of people to spend their evenings talking with invented characters, asked a Delaware court for bankruptcy protection on October 12, and the sale that…
Nvidia Puts $2 Billion Into Europe, Starting With a Doctor’s Appointment
Jensen Huang said this week that Nvidia will commit roughly $2 billion to European artificial intelligence companies within days, on top of $8 billion the chipmaker has deployed in the…
Anthropic’s IPO Clock Starts With a Revenue Number
The most important document in technology this week has no cover page. Anthropic will hand updated financials to a group of institutional investors gathering at its San Francisco headquarters, according…
Anthropic Warns That AI Worms May Not Need a Data Center
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published research this week arguing that self-replicating AI malware is closer than the industry has assumed, and that it may not need a data center to…
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…
Chip Chiefs Warn That AI’s Next Shortage Is Credit
The two executives who sell deepest into the artificial intelligence build-out said on October 12 that its next constraint is neither silicon nor electricity but the willingness of other people’s…
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…
Kakao Moves Its AI Assistant Inside the Chat Window
The demonstration began with a gesture rather than an app. Swipe down anywhere with two fingers inside KakaoTalk and an assistant opens on top of the conversation. Kakao unveiled the…
