Oracle Offers to Pay for Power It May Not Use, and Commissioners Balk
Oracle walked into a New Mexico county meeting on Tuesday with a guarantee that most utilities never receive: a customer offering to pay for electricity whether it uses it or…
Google’s Best Model Arrives With a Discount and an Expiration Date
Google opened its most capable artificial-intelligence model to developers, enterprises and consumers on Tuesday, and put the detail that matters most to buyers in a footnote. Gemini 4 Argon is…
Two Blank Checks Test the Appetite for SPACs
On Tuesday, two filings landed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a few hours apart, each asking the same question in a different size. Apex Treasury Corp II, a blank…
Oracle Offers a Power Bill Credit to Keep Its Data Center From Raising Rates
Oracle has proposed paying El Paso Electric $10 million a year for a decade and returning as much as $55 million a year to the utility’s customers for three years,…
Character.AI Files for Chapter 11 With Disney as Its Opening Bidder
Character.AI, the startup that persuaded millions of people to spend their evenings talking with invented characters, asked a Delaware court for bankruptcy protection on October 12, and the sale that…
AMD Wins Europe’s First Commercial AI Supercomputer
Scaleway, the cloud arm of French telecom group Iliad, said Tuesday that it will build an AI supercomputer in Sweden running AMD Instinct MI355X chips, the first AMD-based machine of…
Google Opens Gemini 4 Argon to All Developers and Cuts the Price
Google opened its flagship model Gemini 4 Argon to every developer and enterprise customer on October 13, ending a limited release that had kept the model behind a security program…
Chip Chiefs Warn That AI’s Next Shortage Is Credit
The two executives who sell deepest into the artificial intelligence build-out said on October 12 that its next constraint is neither silicon nor electricity but the willingness of other people’s…
Meta Puts a Meter on Its Best Model
Meta Platforms released its first frontier-class artificial intelligence model on October 12 and put a price on it, ending the company’s run as the industry’s most generous donor of free…
Kakao Moves Its AI Assistant Inside the Chat Window
The demonstration began with a gesture rather than an app. Swipe down anywhere with two fingers inside KakaoTalk and an assistant opens on top of the conversation. Kakao unveiled the…
