Meta and YouTube Reverse Course on the ‘Musk’ Trailer
The trailer dropped on a Thursday, and by the time the weekend arrived the studio behind it could not buy an ad anywhere. Bleecker Street, the small distributor releasing Alex…
Intel Says Its 14A Process Will Land Within 5% of TSMC’s A14
Naga Chandrasekaran chose a phrase that sounds like a promise and reads like a hedge. Speaking with KeyBanc Capital Markets on September 25, Intel’s chief technology and operations officer for…
Crusoe Drops a $1.25 Billion Turbine Order as Power Plans Shift
Blake Scholl announced the cancellation himself, in a post on X, the way founders increasingly deliver news that would once have gone through a press release. The chief executive of…
Anthropic Weighs Leasing a Gigawatt of Data Center Space Directly
For a company that has bought nearly all of its computing power from cloud providers, the negotiation described by The Information on September 24 would mark a step into unfamiliar…
New Jersey Fines a Data Center Over 62 Unpermitted Generators
When state inspectors visited the DataOne data center in Vineland, New Jersey, in December 2025, they saw no power generators. When they returned on July 29, the site was running…
Netflix Rebuilds Gene Wilder’s Voice, and Critics Wince
Rusty Goffe played an Oompa-Loompa in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, and five decades later he found himself on a new set listening to his old…
IonQ to Install First Quantum Processor at NVIDIA Center
The NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Research Center in Boston was built to pair quantum processors with supercomputers. It now has its first tenant. IonQ said its Superion 256, a 256-qubit machine,…
Microsoft Retires the Copilot+ PC Name and Hands Brad Smith the Message
The “Copilot+ PC” badge is coming off the box. Microsoft confirmed on Sept. 24 that it is retiring the brand it stamped on AI-capable Windows laptops, and the label has…
Google Readies an AI Satellite, a New Model and a Driving Record
Google spent Sept. 24 making three announcements at once, and each one pointed in a different direction. The company confirmed that its first artificial-intelligence satellite would launch on Oct. 1,…
Pentagon Gives SpaceX a Private Channel to Secret Space Data
SpaceX has gained exclusive access to classified space-tracking data from the U.S. Department of Defense, a channel that until now had been reserved for a small number of government agencies,…
