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…
Snowflake’s AI Assistants Accelerate Growth, and the Stock Jumps 23%
On an earnings call full of talk about models and agents, the number that moved Snowflake’s stock was a count of customer accounts. The company said its AI coding assistant,…
Susquehanna’s Hong Kong Expansion: Triple the Space, and the Hiring to Fill It
Susquehanna International Group has spent the past few weeks touring office towers in Hong Kong’s Central district, and the space on its shortlist would roughly triple its presence in the…
Ternus Teases ‘Huge’ Apple Launch in First Memo as CEO
John Ternus spent his first day as Apple’s chief executive telling employees to brace for next week. In an all-hands memo on Sept. 1, the new CEO promised a “huge…
Meta’s New Transcription Service Prices a Fifth of Google’s
For a business that transcribes call-center audio all day, the math is easy to do. An hour of recorded conversation processed by Meta’s new speech service costs 18 cents. The…
