Samsung Expands Memory Output and Backs a Nuclear Reactor
Samsung is pushing on two fronts at once. In its fabs, the company is adding 4-nanometer capacity to make memory chips and compete head-on with SK Hynix for orders. Across…
SoftBank-Backed SB Energy Slows Its IPO
Bankers working on the listing of SB Energy spent much of last week trying to fill an order book that never quite filled. By Monday, the SoftBank-backed data center developer…
Google Fined 403 Million Euros Over Location Data as It Expands Nuclear Bet
The fine landed on a Monday, and it was the fourth-largest the Irish regulator had ever issued. In Dublin, the Data Protection Commission announced it was fining Alphabet’s Google 403…
OpenAI and Anthropic Discussed a Pact to Test Each Other’s Models
The conversation began with a simple proposal: two of the world’s most advanced artificial-intelligence companies would hand each other access to their most capable systems, not to compete, but to…
Oracle Clears Legal Obstacles at New Mexico Data Center Project
The New Mexico Supreme Court handed down its ruling on what looked like a routine procedural matter, but for the engineers overseeing Oracle’s largest data center bet it was the…
Freight Rates Hit 2021 Levels as Two Chokepoints Choke Trade
The numbers read like a page torn from the supply-chain crisis of four years ago. Ocean freight rates have jumped 201 percent, closing in on the 250 percent spike recorded…
Druckenmiller Sets First Seoul Visit as AI Capital Flows East
Stanley Druckenmiller, one of the most closely watched macro investors on Wall Street, will visit Seoul next week for the first time, according to the Korea Economic Daily. The chairman…
Prince George Arrives at Eton, Under an Umbrella
The photograph from the school gates shows the routine parts of a first day. A boy in a uniform, a car pulling up, parents making sure everything is in order.…
Microsoft Copilot Goes Down for Thousands of Users
Microsoft’s Copilot failed across the middle of the day on September 17, leaving users staring at error messages in a product the company has placed at the center of its…
House Passes a Data Center Power Bill; the Senate Stalls
The bill that would make big data centers pay for their own electricity cleared the House of Representatives on the evening of September 16 by a margin that leaves little…
