Tesla to Open Nevada Semi Factory Next Month
The trucks will start rolling off the line in September. Tesla plans to begin operations at its new electric heavy-truck factory in Nevada next month, according to an Electrek report…
Microsoft AI Marketing Chief Andrea Mallard Departs
The marketing chief of Microsoft’s AI business is leaving. Andrea Mallard, who led marketing for the company’s AI products, including Copilot and the Azure AI platform, has departed, according to…
SEC Subpoenas Wall Street Banks Over Collapse of AI Hedge Fund Situational Awareness
Over two days at the end of August, subpoenas went out to several of Wall Street’s largest banks. The recipient of the questions was not a bank itself, but a…
SpaceX Plans $100 Billion Space Supercomputer With NVIDIA Vera Chips
The idea of putting a supercomputer in orbit has been discussed in engineering circles for decades, usually as a thought experiment about solar power and cooling. On Aug. 25, it…
OpenAI Restores Five-Hour Usage Cap on ChatGPT Plus
On the morning of Aug. 25, a familiar message returned for some ChatGPT Plus subscribers: usage limit reached. OpenAI has restored its rolling five-hour cap for the standard tier of…
Emerald AI Raises $150 Million to Turn Data Centers Into Flexible Power Users
On hot afternoons in California, when grid operators plead for every megawatt, a data center running Emerald AI’s software does the opposite of what its tenants expect: it throttles back.…
Anthropic Researchers Warn of ‘Mind Viruses’ Spreading Between AI Agents
The exchange lasted only a few sentences. One AI agent told another to adopt a new belief and pass it along, and within moments the instruction had taken hold: the…
Data Center Backlash Moves Into the Midterm Campaign
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The sign outside the county commission hearing room said the agenda item was a “data center zoning amendment.” The people who filled the seats were not there…
Samsung SDI to Sell $3.2 Billion Samsung Display Stake to Fund Battery Push
Samsung SDI Co., the battery-making arm of Samsung Group, said Friday it will sell 13.09 million shares of Samsung Display Co., worth about 4.45 trillion won ($3.2 billion), to the…
