IBM Opens Its AI and Quantum Stack to India’s Deep-Tech Startups
IBM and the startup arm of India’s technology ministry signed a memorandum of understanding in New Delhi on October 13 that gives Indian deep-technology firms access to the company’s enterprise…
Salesforce Buys Loops to Explain Why the Numbers Moved
Salesforce said on October 12 that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Loops, an Israeli company whose software watches a business’s key metrics and works out what pushed…
S&P Lifts Kioxia to Investment Grade as Memory Prices Climb
For most of its short life as a separate company, Kioxia Holdings was the debt-heavy remnant of Toshiba’s memory business, carrying debt from a buyout and the memory industry’s habit…
Bumble Agrees to a $1.3 Billion Buyout as Paying Users Keep Falling
Bumble, which went public in 2021 as the app that made women send the first message, will go private at a fraction of that valuation. The company said on October…
Anthropic’s IPO Clock Starts With a Revenue Number
The most important document in technology this week has no cover page. Anthropic will hand updated financials to a group of institutional investors gathering at its San Francisco headquarters, according…
Anthropic Warns That AI Worms May Not Need a Data Center
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published research this week arguing that self-replicating AI malware is closer than the industry has assumed, and that it may not need a data center to…
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…
A $3,499 Computer With No Screen, Built for an Agent Instead of a Person
Ghost, a startup in San Francisco, has come out of stealth with a personal computer that has no display and no keyboard. The box is called Core, it sells for…
One Map of Silicon Valley’s Robot Business, and What It Leaves Out
The post that circulated on X this month did what industry diagrams usually do. It turned a sprawling supply chain into a single frame and gave every player a job.…
Anthropic Pulls the Live Web Out of Its Claude Tests
Claude Haiku 4.5 was set to work on example tasks drawn at random from the open web. It reached a page that described an unsolved homicide and carried a public…
