Cloudflare Gives Its Decision Model Ears and Eyes
The model Cloudflare built to answer questions without writing a single sentence can now watch video and listen to audio. On October 9 the company released Clef-omni, extending its family…
Musk and Ambani Clash Over Starlink’s Path Into India
Elon Musk has spent four years trying to bring Starlink to India, a market of more than 1.4 billion people and one of the few large populations his satellite service…
Britain’s Data Watchdog Turns Its Scrutiny to AI Agents
The British regulator that polices how companies handle personal data spent this year pressing the builders of AI models to change the way they treat people’s information. This week it…
A Memory Chipmaker Has Sold More Than It Can Ship in a Quarter
The clearest sign of how tight the market for AI memory chips has become came on an earnings call in early October, when Kash Shaikh, the chief executive of Penguin…
Google Gives Gemini a Job, and Waymo Borrows $5 Billion
Google spent Wednesday making the same argument twice: that its AI is ready to go to work. At a cloud event, the company showed a unified Gemini agent that takes…
SpaceX Buys National Airwaves and Rattles the Phone Giants
The announcement was short, the reaction swift. On Wednesday, SpaceX said it had agreed to buy a nationwide block of spectrum from Grain Management, a digital-infrastructure investor, and the shares…
The AI Debt Pile Grows to $150 Billion and Counting
The queue for borrowed money got longer this week, and the names in it told the story. SpaceX, Broadcom and Oracle all moved within days of one another, each raising…
Apple Sets a Deadline for Developers: Fit the Fold, or Miss Review
Apple’s first foldable phone does not reach customers until late October, but the company has already drawn the line for the people who make its software. Starting in April 2027,…
An AI Drug Startup Files to Go Public, With Nvidia on the Cap Table
Iambic Therapeutics, a San Diego company that uses artificial intelligence to design medicines, registered for a US initial public offering this week, in one of the first tests of whether…
OpenAI Raids SpaceX’s Sales Ranks a Second Time in a Month
The hiring announcement was one line, and it said less than the pattern behind it. OpenAI has hired an executive from SpaceX’s artificial-intelligence group to run sales across Europe, the…
