OpenAI Signs Long-Term Compute Deal With Firmus as Malaysian AI Factories Ramp Up
The pattern has repeated across the industry for two years: an American AI lab with enormous computing needs, and a data-center developer willing to build fast where power is cheap.…
Intel Prepares Another 10 Percent Price Increase on PC Processors
The letter has not gone out yet, but the number is circulating through the supply chain. People familiar with the plans say Intel is preparing to raise prices on its…
Investment Banks Court Rating Agencies Ahead of Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs
The calls began months ago, before either company had filed for an offering, according to people familiar with the efforts. Investment banks advising Anthropic and OpenAI have been making the…
Samsung Leads Mistral AI’s EUR 3 Billion Round as Europe’s AI Ambitions Look East
Arthur Mensch has spent two years positioning Mistral AI as the answer to a question European policymakers keep asking: where is the continent’s own answer to OpenAI? On Tuesday the…
Arm’s Second Mobile Compute Subsystem Puts Agents and Graphics on One Pipeline
Will Abbey had a number for the developers gathered in Shanghai on Tuesday: 350 billion. That, the Arm executive vice president and chief commercial officer said, is how many chips…
Kalanick’s Atoms Circles Back to the Robotaxi Business That Ousted Him
The founder who was pushed out of Uber is building a company that wants to supply it. Travis Kalanick’s startup Atoms is preparing for a hiring spree and a round…
Uber Prepares Its First Bond Sale in Euros
The bankers have been chosen and the roadshow is being assembled. Uber has hired banks to arrange its first bond offering denominated in euros, according to people familiar with the…
Arm Asks Shareholders to Approve an $800 Million Package for Its Chief
The annual meeting will have a question at its center that has nothing to do with chips. Arm Holdings shareholders vote Tuesday on a pay package for chief executive Rene…
Authors Fight Their Own Publishers Over the Anthropic Settlement
The settlement was supposed to end one fight and start another, and the second one has now begun. Anthropic agreed to pay roughly $1.5 billion to resolve a copyright lawsuit…
Tesla Says Its Robotaxis Passed a Million Unsupervised Miles
The number was the centerpiece of the evening. Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s vice president of artificial intelligence, told an audience at the company’s Cybercab event in Austin on Sept. 3 that…
