TSMC Adds $100 Billion to U.S. Plans, Lifting Total to $265 Billion
The White House made it official on Thursday: TSMC will pour another $100 billion into American semiconductor manufacturing, on top of the $165 billion it had already pledged, for a…
Facebook and Instagram Go Dark for Two Hours in Meta’s Worst Outage of the Year
Just after midnight on Sunday, the feeds stopped. Facebook users trying to refresh saw error screens; Instagram opened to blank timelines. Within minutes, complaints were flooding DownDetector, and on X,…
Databricks Raises Strategic Round at $188 Billion Valuation
The round was confirmed quietly, the way Databricks has done these things since it stopped needing to shout. The company, which sells software that helps enterprises organize data for AI,…
Microsoft Trains Sales Teams to Pitch Against OpenAI and Anthropic
Microsoft is training thousands of sales representatives to sell Azure AI alongside its own models, and to steer customers toward questioning the cost-effectiveness of OpenAI and Anthropic, according to internal…
Anthropic in Talks With Meta to Lease $10 Billion in GPU Capacity
Anthropic is in early talks to lease GPU computing capacity from Meta in a deal valued at roughly $10 billion over two years, according to a report from MLQ and…
AMD Overtakes Nvidia as Top Holding in $45 Billion Chip ETF
A $45 billion semiconductor exchange-traded fund completed its quarterly rebalancing and emerged with AMD as its largest holding, replacing Nvidia at the top of the portfolio. The shift, disclosed in…
Current AI Unveils Plan for an Open ‘World Wide Web of AI’
The pitch is nostalgic on purpose. Current AI, a nonprofit founded last year in Paris, has announced a project it calls the World Wide Web of AI, an attempt to…
Justice Department Lifts TikTok Ban on Federal Workers’ Devices
The memo was short, and its effect was immediate. The Justice Department has formally revoked the ban on using TikTok on government devices, saying its national security risk assessment is…
Jury Finds Kioxia Infringed Viasat Flash-Memory Patent, Awards $229 Million
A federal jury in Austin, Texas, returned a verdict on Thursday that could cost Kioxia Holdings Corp. $229 million, ruling that the Japanese memory maker’s flash-memory products infringe a patent…
Sharon AI Signs $1.32 Billion Cloud Deal to Supply AI Lab With Nvidia GPUs
Sharon AI Holdings, an Australian provider of artificial-intelligence cloud services, said Thursday it signed a five-year agreement worth $1.32 billion to supply cloud-computing capacity to a global AI laboratory. The…
