Shopify Hands the Final Click to Browsers’ AI Agents
The last step of an online purchase has long been stubbornly human. A shopper scrolls the checkout, retypes a shipping address, picks a card and presses pay. On Monday, Shopify…
Instinct Raises a $1 Billion Series C From Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue
Instinct, a startup building a personal AI agent that answers the phone and runs errands on a user’s behalf, said on September 28 that it has raised a $1 billion…
Modal Labs Nears a $750 Million Round Led by Accel at $15.75 Billion
Modal Labs, a company that lets developers run AI models without managing their own servers, is closing in on a $750 million funding round led by Accel at a $15.75…
TSMC Is Said to Study a Second U.S. Base, With Dallas on the List
Taiwan Economic Daily reported on September 29, citing supply chain sources, that TSMC is evaluating a second U.S. manufacturing base that could hold as many as six advanced fabs, with…
Meta Hires a Database Chief to Run Its Push Into Business Software
When Meta went looking for someone to run its new enterprise AI business, it did not pick a research scientist. It picked Chirantan “CJ” Desai, the chief executive of the…
Nvidia Adds $150 Billion to Its Buyback Authorization
The number needs a frame to be understood. Nvidia’s board, on September 28, added $150 billion to the company’s share-repurchase authorization — a sum larger than the entire market value…
AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs in an $8.2 Billion Bet on Physical AI
The woman who built the dataset that helped ignite modern AI spent this year telling audiences she wanted to be closer to the hardware. On September 28, she got her…
Faraday Future Folds Its Robotics Unit Into a Nasdaq Listing
On September 30, a ticker on the Nasdaq will change. The listed company known as AIxC becomes FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem Inc., trading under the symbol FFR. Two days earlier,…
OpenAI Scraps a Model It Had Called Its Strongest
The superlatives were already on record. When OpenAI’s Astra family debuted this month, the company described it as the strongest model it had ever built. Now the next model in…
Anthropic Puts Top-Tier Guardrails on a Cheaper Sonnet
Anthropic’s announcement for Sonnet 5.5, posted on September 28, opened with a price list rather than a benchmark chart: $2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens, and…
