OpenAI Opens Talks on a Round That Could Value It Above $1.2 Trillion
The calls began going out on the evening of September 15. Investors, not OpenAI, made the first move, according to The Wall Street Journal, approaching the company with offers that…
SoftBank’s Energy Arm Prepares a Japan Share Sale Ahead of a US Listing
The filing landed with Japan’s finance ministry with little fanfare, but it sketched a piece of SoftBank’s sprawling AI strategy. SB Energy, the data center and energy infrastructure company controlled…
Nvidia’s Biggest Customers Now Account for Nearly Half Its Revenue
The concentration has been building in Nvidia’s books for years, and the latest filing makes the trend hard to ignore. In the first six months of fiscal 2027, Nvidia’s three…
AWS and Proximie Put AI to Work Inside Britain’s Operating Theatres
In a hospital in Coventry, a camera above the operating table has been watching, quietly, for months. It records not the surgery itself but the rhythm around it: how long…
Superhuman Buys Fathom After Discovering That Meeting Transcription Is Hard
Superhuman tried to build its own meeting recorder first. The company, known for an email client that sells itself on speed, spent time experimenting with transcription features, only to conclude…
Cornelis Networks Raises $205 Million to Put Computing Inside the Network
The problem Lisa Spelman keeps describing is a simple one: expensive accelerators spend too much time waiting. In a modern AI data center, a rack of processors can sit idle…
BofA Raises Its Semiconductor Forecast Even as AI Stocks Sputter
On a day when AI-related shares were sliding for a second straight session, Bank of America’s analysts were moving their numbers in the other direction. On September 15, the bank…
Micron’s Taiwan Workers Demand a Cut of the Chip Boom, and Keep a Strike in Reserve
The union’s demand was simple enough to state in one sentence: take 15 percent of operating profit and pay it out to employees, or workers reserve the right to walk…
Intel Veterans Raise $100 Million to Fix the Way Data Moves Inside AI Data Centers
The bottleneck in an AI data center is not the chip doing the thinking. It is the network that feeds it. On September 15, Reuters reported that Delos Data, a…
Samsung Backs a Dutch Chip Startup, and an ASML Veteran Takes the Chairman’s Seat
Eindhoven is where ASML was built, and it is where the next generation of European chip companies is now taking shape. On September 15, one of them, Euclyd, announced a…
