Microsoft Copilot Goes Down for Thousands of Users
Microsoft’s Copilot failed across the middle of the day on September 17, leaving users staring at error messages in a product the company has placed at the center of its…
Oracle Cuts Another 441 Jobs in the Bay Area
Oracle is laying off more workers in the region where it keeps its headquarters, and the numbers tell a story that has become familiar at the company: cloud orders and…
AMD Tells Customers of a 10% Price Rise, Traced to TSMC
AMD has begun telling its partners what they will pay for chips next quarter, and the message points up the supply chain. Around September 17, the company notified graphics card…
CleanSpark Names Meta as the Tenant of Its Georgia Campus
CleanSpark spent months letting the market guess who would occupy the AI campus it is building in Georgia. On September 17, the bitcoin miner ended the guessing in a set…
Crusoe Raises $3.9 Billion and Pivots to Truckable AI Factories
Crusoe began in 2018 by mining bitcoin with natural gas that would otherwise have been flared into the air. On September 17, the company that grew out of that trick…
Google DeepMind Launches an Institute, and Hassabis Proposes a U.S. AI Standards Body
Google and Google DeepMind researchers launched a new research institute on September 16, and its opening publications carry a proposal that reaches beyond research. Demis Hassabis, the DeepMind chief executive,…
Anthropic Is Quietly Building a Biology Lab to Make Its Own Drugs
Anthropic is doing more than selling tools to drugmakers; it is setting up to do the drug discovery itself. The AI developer is advancing a biology laboratory of its own,…
OpenAI Brings Astra to Law Firms With a 230-Million-URL Legal Index
OpenAI is selling its most capable model to the legal profession. On September 17 the company released Astra for Law, a product that pairs GPT-6 Astra, its strongest system, with…
Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Hathaway Chairman
Warren Buffett stepped down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway on September 18, closing the formal handover of a company he has led for six decades. Buffett, who is 96, will…
Nokia Extends Microsoft Deal, and Its Stock Climbs
Nokia’s shares jumped more than 7 percent intraday on September 17, touching $10.86 at the high, after the Finnish equipment maker said it would deepen its partnership with Microsoft and…
