Meta’s Muse Tops the Charts, Then Runs Into Amazon
Meta released Muse on Sept. 8 with a simple pitch: a personal AI agent that could book tickets, sort email and act across the web on a user’s behalf. The…
Microsoft Cuts About 500 Jobs in Latest Xbox Shake-Up
Matt Booty, the executive in charge of Xbox’s games and studios, opened a memo to staff on Tuesday with a subject line that summed up the moment: continuing the reset.…
Anthropic and OpenEvidence to Give Free Medical AI to Poorer Countries
OpenEvidence began as a way for a doctor to ask a question and get an answer drawn from peer-reviewed research rather than a search engine. It is free for clinicians…
SpaceX Stops Taking Falcon 9 Bookings Beyond 2028
For years, satellite operators planning a launch a few years out could simply call SpaceX and secure a spot on a Falcon 9. That option is now closing. SpaceX has…
Amazon’s Leo Picks a Fight With Starlink in Central Asia
On the sidelines of the Tashkent International Investment Forum this week, a joint venture owned by Uzbekistan’s state telecom operator signed an agreement to resell internet delivered from space. The…
Broadcom’s Anthropic Orders Reshape a Custom-Chip Bet
When Broadcom’s chief executive Hock Tan took questions on an earnings call in December, he gave investors a name they had spent three months trying to guess. The mystery customer…
xAI Releases Grok 4.7 at an Unchanged Price, Still Behind the Frontier
When xAI shipped Grok 4.7 on Sunday, the company did something unusual in a market where every new model seems to cost more: it kept the price exactly where it…
Five English Police Forces End Palantir Data-Sharing Pilot
The East Midlands Special Operations Unit, the body that coordinates serious and organised crime work across five English counties, confirmed this month that it had ended “Project Nectar,” a Palantir-built…
TSMC Pulls A14 Pilot Production Into 2027
TSMC’s most advanced process node is moving faster than the company’s own schedule. The chipmaker has pulled pilot production of its A14 process, its 1.4-nanometer-class node, forward to the first…
Samsung Expands Memory Output and Backs a Nuclear Reactor
Samsung is pushing on two fronts at once. In its fabs, the company is adding 4-nanometer capacity to make memory chips and compete head-on with SK Hynix for orders. Across…
