Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft
The complaint filed Friday carries the tone of an elegy with a legal caption. The Seattle Times and Newsday, the Long Island daily, accuse OpenAI and Microsoft of scraping their…
Anthropic Moves Its IPO Filing to Late September
The bankers and lawyers running Anthropic’s initial public offering had told investors to expect the company’s registration documents as soon as this week. The calendar has moved. Anthropic now plans…
Nadella Sells Microsoft Stock for the First Time This Year
The chief executive of Microsoft sold shares for the first time in 2026, and the disclosure landed on the same day the company was presenting itself as the distribution arm…
Qualcomm Backs Ultrahuman’s Plan to Turn the Smart Ring Into a Computer
The smart ring was born as a health device, a quiet band of sensors that tells its owner how they slept and how hard they trained. Qualcomm is investing in…
Nvidia’s $99 Billion Year of Writing Checks to the Companies It Sells To
The most active investor in the AI industry is not a venture firm, a sovereign wealth fund or a hedge fund. It is the company that makes the chips. Nvidia…
SoftBank Raises ¥1 Trillion From Japanese Households at Double the Going Rate
The savers of Japan have long been the world’s most cautious investors, keeping trillions of yen in bank deposits that pay almost nothing. Masayoshi Son wants to put that money…
Oura Files for an IPO as the Smart-Ring Market Moves From Wrists to Fingers
The next battlefield in wearable technology is not on the wrist. It is on the finger, and the company that made the finger’s most famous device is heading to the…
Abu Dhabi’s G42 Weighs Selling Control to Secure American Chips
Few companies have traveled further in search of computing power than G42, and its latest step may be the most consequential yet. The Abu Dhabi artificial-intelligence company is in talks…
Volkswagen’s Board Approves 100,000 Job Cuts as Germany’s Auto Industry Shrinks
The meeting lasted a day, and the plan it produced will reshape Volkswagen for a decade. The company’s supervisory board approved a future program on Wednesday that calls for another…
OpenAI Unveils GPT-6 Astra, and a $1 Billion Plan to Protect Critical Infrastructure
Greg Brockman has a habit of making bold claims about the state of artificial intelligence, and he made another one on the call announcing OpenAI’s newest model. Asked whether the…
