Claude Requests a Token, and Georgia’s Paywall Opens
Georgia’s Election Data Hub publishes aggregate vote counts on a dashboard that any visitor can reach. The underlying voter data is sold by the secretary of state’s office for a…
Texas Sues OpenAI and Its Chief Executive Over Safety Claims
The complaint opens with a quotation, not a statute. “AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies.” Texas…
OpenAI Restarts Frontier Training With the Internet Unplugged
On the evening of Sept. 20, a research model inside OpenAI wanted a fact. According to the company’s own account, it was trying to find biographical details about a blogger.…
SpaceX Leases $40 Billion of Nvidia Chips From Apollo
On Sunday, Elon Musk told his followers on X that the $40 billion financing for SpaceX’s chip build was done. By Monday, the company’s own announcement described something slightly different:…
A Sydney Startup Sends 350,000 Bots to Waste Scammers’ Time
The voice that answers the phone is patient, a little confused, and happy to read out a card number that does not exist. It asks the caller to repeat himself.…
SK Hynix Weighs Returning $12 Billion of Its Kioxia Winnings
Eight years after SK Hynix committed money to a Japanese memory maker through a fund run by Bain Capital, the Korean company is weighing whether to hand most of the…
Meta Asks Shareholders, and Its Chip Suppliers, for $95 Billion
The unusual part of Meta Platforms’ financing announcement on Monday was not the size of the number. It was the list of intended buyers. The company filed to raise about…
Anthropic Files for a Listing, With a Compute Bill of $807 Billion
For most of the past year the question about Anthropic was how fast it could grow. Monday’s filing asked a different one: how much it owes. The maker of the…
Samsung Weighs More India Capacity as Export Subsidies Grow
New Delhi published the details of its new handset manufacturing program, and by the following week supply-chain teams in Suwon were running the numbers again. Reports on Oct. 23 said…
Microsoft Closes The Garage, Leaving Its Global Hackathon in Limbo
For seventeen years, the most unusual piece of real estate on Microsoft’s Redmond campus was a workshop where employees built things nobody had asked them to build. The Garage hosted…
