OpenAI Is Said to Be Close to Solving Another Millennium Prize Problem
OpenAI appears to be closing in on another of the hardest problems in mathematics. The company is close to solving the Hodge Conjecture, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems,…
Nvidia’s Huang Says Next Year’s Chip Sales Will Roughly Double
Jensen Huang put a number on his company’s trajectory. The Nvidia chief executive said on September 17 that the company expects to sell roughly twice as many chips next year…
OpenAI Hires SpaceX’s Brian McCarthy to Lead Global Sales
OpenAI has turned to SpaceX for the executive who will run its sales force. The company has hired Brian McCarthy as vice president of global sales, according to reports, bringing…
CoreWeave Raises Debt and Plans a Stock Sale to Fund More Chips
CoreWeave moved on both sides of its capital structure on September 17. The AI cloud provider said it would sell $3 billion of convertible senior notes due in 2033 in…
SpaceX AI Unit Weighs Buying Data From Struggling Startups to Train Grok
SpaceX’s artificial-intelligence division is considering an unusual source of training material: other people’s failed companies. SpaceXAI has held informal internal discussions about buying customer and operating data from startups that…
Tesla Starts New Round of Supply Chain Audits in China for Optimus
Tesla’s push to build robots at scale has reached the factory floors of its Chinese suppliers. A Tesla team landed in Ningbo on September 16 and began a new round…
OpenAI Study Finds Employees Taking On More Cross-Occupation Tasks
The second installment of OpenAI’s economic research arrived on September 16 with a finding that reframes what AI is doing inside companies. The researchers analyzed more than 1.5 million work-related…
SoftBank Enlarges Arm-Backed Margin Loan to $25 Billion
SoftBank Group went back to its most reliable source of capital and asked for more. The Japanese conglomerate has increased the margin loan it holds against its shares in chip…
Anthropic and OpenAI Seek Smaller Data Center Deals to Speed Up Compute
The hunt for computing power has a new shape. Anthropic and OpenAI, two of the companies that signed the largest data center contracts of the past year, are now shopping…
Wayve Hires Waymo’s Former Finance Chief to Run Its Next Expansion
Wayve announced on September 16 that it had hired Elisa de Martel, the former chief financial officer of Waymo, for the same role, and that its current CFO, Max Warburton,…
