Samsung Electronics Union Plans Protests at Chairman’s Home Over Pay Gap
Samsung Electronics has settled its labor disputes at factory gates and in meeting rooms at its campus south of Seoul. The next fight is scheduled for a different address: the…
OpenAI Quietly Revises GPT-6 Astra Scores After Launch
When OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on Sept. 3, the launch post carried the usual furniture of a modern model debut: coding results, speed comparisons and a figure for how often…
AMD Pushes a Desktop Workstation Built to Run a Trillion-Parameter Model
The machines that train the largest AI models fill buildings, consume megawatts and cost more than most companies’ annual budgets. AMD’s newest product is designed to fit under a desk.…
Nvidia’s $99 Billion Year of Writing Checks to the Companies It Sells To
The most active investor in the AI industry is not a venture firm, a sovereign wealth fund or a hedge fund. It is the company that makes the chips. Nvidia…
OpenAI Sets a Higher API Price for GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI’s newest flagship model does more than its predecessor. It also costs more. The company said it is pricing GPT-6 Astra’s application-programming interface at $10 per million input tokens and…
Anthropic’s Sprint to an IPO, and the Record It Wants to Break
When Anthropic’s chief financial officer sat down with prospective investors in August, the questions were not about whether the company would go public. They were about how big the offering…
Zoox Brings Its Robotaxi to the Las Vegas Airport Curb
A traveler landing at Harry Reid International Airport now has an option that did not exist three weeks ago: a driverless car waiting near baggage claim. Zoox, the autonomous-driving company…
Tesla’s Cybercab Fleet Rolls Out on Austin Streets
The first videos appeared online Wednesday evening, shot by drivers and pedestrians who could not quite believe what they were seeing: two-seat cars moving through Austin traffic with no steering…
Google’s Ad-Tech Business Survives, and the Remedy Is Under Seal
Judge Leonie Brinkema gave Google what it wanted, and something it will have to live with. On Wednesday, the federal judge in Virginia ruled that Google can keep its advertising-technology…
Nscale Discloses $103 Billion in Contracted Revenue, With an IPO Possible This Month
Nscale, the British cloud-computing provider backed by Nvidia, has told prospective investors that its contracted revenue has grown to about $103 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, and…
