Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo Forces the PC Industry to Answer
The cheapest Mac ever made went on sale in March, and the PC industry has been scrambling ever since. Apple’s MacBook Neo, unveiled March 4 in New York, starts at…
A New Jersey Town’s Data-Center Ban Signals a Growing Backlash
In a small city in southern New Jersey, the AI boom hit a brick wall. On May 19, Millville’s Board of Commissioners voted to prohibit data centers in every zoning…
GitHub Bans Security Researcher Who Published Windows Zero-Day Exploits
The researcher known online as Chaotic Eclipse and Nightmare-Eclipse has spent months at war with Microsoft. This week, the company, which owns GitHub, cut off one of their accounts, deleting…
Microsoft Looks to Nvidia Silicon to Reboot Its Surface Line
The last time Microsoft put an Nvidia chip inside a Surface, the result was the Surface RT, a 2012 tablet that sold so poorly the company wrote off nearly $1…
AMD Starts Making Its First 2-Nanometer Server Chip
The wafers are moving through the fab now, and each one represents a bet that AMD’s engineers have been working toward for years. Advanced Micro Devices said this week that…
Anthropic Nears a $900 Billion Valuation, Topping OpenAI
Dario Amodei has spent five years telling investors that Anthropic would eventually be worth more than the company he left. This month, that claim is on the verge of coming…
Arm Tops $300 Billion as SoftBank’s Bet Comes Full Circle
The number that had been building for months finally arrived on Thursday. Arm Holdings crossed the $300 billion market-capitalization threshold for the first time, closing in on its highest valuation…
AMD Ships Its First 2-Nanometer Server Chip, Made by TSMC
The chip that will power the next generation of cloud servers went into mass production this week in Taiwan. AMD said Thursday that its next-generation EPYC processor, code-named Venice, has…
Moonshot AI Unwinds Its Offshore Structure to Chase a Hong Kong IPO
The holding company is coming down. Moonshot AI, the Chinese artificial-intelligence startup behind the Kimi assistant, has notified shareholders that it plans to dismantle its variable-interest-entity and red-chip structure, according…
SpaceX Files Reveal a 10-Gigawatt Solar Factory in Texas
The permit applications landed in Bastrop County’s records office weeks before anyone noticed them, and they describe something no rocket company has built before: a solar manufacturing plant with 10…
