Anthropic Weighs Leasing a Gigawatt of Data Center Space Directly
For a company that has bought nearly all of its computing power from cloud providers, the negotiation described by The Information on September 24 would mark a step into unfamiliar…
Japan’s Bank Regulator Turns Its Gaze on Data-Center Loans
For two years, Japanese banks chasing yield have financed a building boom in AI data centers across Asia, North America and Europe. Now their own regulator is asking how much…
Netherlands Builds Its Own Office Software to Replace Windows
In early 2025, when the United States imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Microsoft cut off the court’s chief prosecutor from services such as email. For…
Databricks Buys Spreadsheet Startup Row Zero
The deal started the way a lot of software acquisitions do: with a customer who could not stop using the product. Inside Databricks, the finance team had begun running its…
Microsoft Retires the Copilot+ PC Name and Hands Brad Smith the Message
The “Copilot+ PC” badge is coming off the box. Microsoft confirmed on Sept. 24 that it is retiring the brand it stamped on AI-capable Windows laptops, and the label has…
Google Readies an AI Satellite, a New Model and a Driving Record
Google spent Sept. 24 making three announcements at once, and each one pointed in a different direction. The company confirmed that its first artificial-intelligence satellite would launch on Oct. 1,…
Tesla Semi Finally Reaches High-Volume Production in Nevada
The trucks sat in a row on the Nevada desert, their doors already bearing the names of customers. On Sept. 24, Elon Musk stood before them at a factory east…
Musk Plans to Nearly Double Nvidia Chips at Memphis Supercomputer
Elon Musk laid out the next act of his computing buildup in a few spare sentences on X this week: the Colossus 2 data center outside Memphis, already the largest…
Ten-Year Yield Back Above 5 Percent Sends Chip Stocks Lower
The selloff that has rattled technology stocks this autumn returned on Sept. 24, and it started, as it usually does, in the bond market rather than the stock market. U.S.…
Google Prepares to Put an AI Chip in Orbit
Next week, a SpaceX rocket will lift off carrying a small satellite with an unusual payload: one of Google’s own AI chips, built to survive the forces of launch, the…
