xAI Hires Chinese Tutors to Teach Grok the Language
Elon Musk’s AI company is hiring people to teach its chatbot to speak Chinese. xAI is recruiting Chinese-language AI tutors to label and refine Grok’s understanding and generation of Chinese,…
BYD Joins the Humanoid Robot Race, Citing Its Car Technology
BYD, the Chinese automaker that became the world’s largest seller of electric vehicles, is developing humanoid robots, making it the second major car company to stake a claim in a…
Meta Names Ex-Epic Executive to Run Reality Labs, Shifting Focus
Meta Platforms has picked a video-game veteran to run its money-losing virtual reality division, a leadership change that signals a quieter strategy for the unit once seen as the company’s…
Anthropic Files to Go Public, Following OpenAI’s Lead
Anthropic, the AI company founded by Dario Amodei, has filed for an initial public offering, making it the second top-tier AI laboratory to seek a public listing after OpenAI. The…
OpenAI’s CFO Says Its First AI Device Ships This Year
OpenAI’s first piece of hardware will arrive before the year is out. Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said this week that she has already used the company’s self-developed AI device…
Nvidia’s Next Chips Aim at ‘Star Trek’-Level AI Computers
Nvidia is already planning the chips after the chips it is shipping today. At Computex this week, the company outlined a roadmap that extends past its current Blackwell generation to…
Apple Doubles MacBook Neo Output After Demand Beats Forecasts
Apple’s cheapest MacBook in years has turned into one of the company’s fastest-selling products, prompting the Cupertino, Calif., company to double planned production of the $599 laptop to 10 million…
Jamie Dimon Takes SpaceX’s IPO Pitch to JPMorgan’s Richest Clients
Jamie Dimon will personally pitch SpaceX’s initial public offering to the bank’s wealthiest clients this month, a roadshow built around the lender’s branch network rather than the usual circuit of…
Huang’s RTX Spark Launch in Taipei Redraws the Map of the AI Hardware Business
TAIPEI — The keynote began with a countdown and a crowd that had queued since before dawn, and Jensen Huang did not open with a slide. He walked onto the…
Meta Turns WhatsApp Into a Customer Service Machine, With AI Agents for Every Business
LONDON — The small business had a familiar problem: customers asked the same five questions all day, and a human could not be in three conversations at once. The shop…
