An AI Scorekeeper’s Valuation Doubles in Ten Months
The most expensive companies in artificial intelligence sell capability. Arena sells a smaller product: a way to tell whether that capability is real. On October 8, the evaluation platform closed…
Apple Splits Its Fall Into Two October Events, Ending With an OLED MacBook
Apple sent out one invitation on October 8 with two words — “Welcome home” — and a date of October 13. By the end of the week, the company had…
SoftBank, Grab and Petros Explore a Borneo AI Corridor
SoftBank, Grab and Petros, Malaysia’s state oil company, have signed an agreement to explore building artificial-intelligence infrastructure in Sarawak, the Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. The three parties…
Biohub Recruits Google, Meta and Washington for a $1.8 Billion Cell Atlas
The plan sounds like science fiction until you see the budget. A research institute backed by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, is spending $1.8 billion to build a…
Nvidia Brings Its DGX Station to Windows Desktops
The box Nvidia showed off on October 7 looks, at first glance, like a workstation. The numbers attached to it tell a different story: 748 gigabytes of unified memory and…
Microsoft Hands Copilot the Keys to Windows
The announcement came in the middle of a product event in which Microsoft unveiled new laptops and chips, and it was easy to miss amid the hardware. But it was…
Anthropic Cuts Prices With Haiku 5.5 as It Nears an IPO
The model arrived on October 7 with a price tag attached to the announcement, which is not how Anthropic usually introduces its products. Claude Haiku 5.5, the third model in…
LG Energy Solution’s Profit Rises, With a Big Assist From Washington
LG Energy Solution Ltd. opened its third-quarter results on Oct. 8 with a number that looked like a clean turn in its favor: operating profit of 756 billion won, or…
Microsoft Moves a 130-Billion-Parameter Coding Model Into Windows
At a San Francisco event on Tuesday, Microsoft said it would take a model with 130 billion parameters and put it inside Windows 11 devices. The model, called MAI Code…
Microsoft Prices Its Nvidia-Backed Laptop at $2,599
For months, Microsoft’s most ambitious laptop existed mostly as a promise: a Windows machine built around an Nvidia chip, capable of running large AI models on the device itself, with…
