Google parent company Alphabet announced plans to sell new stock for the first time since 2005, aiming to raise $80 billion in equity to spend on AI infrastructure and compute. As part of the plans, announced Monday, Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to purchase $10 billion in stock at a discount to ... Read more ›
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Brian Landsman, a 14-year Salesforce executive vice president who leads its global partnerships and app store business, has joined OpenAI as vice president of global partnerships, he announced on LinkedIn. This is an important appointment for OpenAI, which has previously hired Chief ... Read more ›
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Morning! Anissa here. OpenAI is open to the idea of publicly sharing software it’s been developing to make its AI run on chips from different providers, a senior executive said, a move that could weaken one of Nvidia’s biggest advantages. The revealing comments came from Sachin Katti, who leads compute and infrastructure at OpenAI, during a discussion with me, Amp founder Anjney Midha and SemiAnalysis data center guru Jeremie Eliahou... Read more ›
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday sued OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman, alleging 10 counts of negligence, liability, and other state law violations related to safety concerns over OpenAI’s consumer-facing tool ChatGPT. With the lawsuit, Florida became the first state to ... Read more ›
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Anthropic on Monday said it filed a draft S-1 form to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a key step toward an initial public offering that Anthropic executives have discussed targeting for the fourth quarter. The company’s eventual IPO timing will depend on market conditions and other ... Read more ›
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SpaceX’s compute rental deal with Anthropic will run for a minimum of six months, according to an amended securities filing on Monday, providing an additional level detail that had not been included in the IPO filing the company made public in May. Anthropic’s agreement to pay SpaceX $1.25 ... Read more ›
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AI researchers are starting to make progress on a confounding problem: AI models are getting better at telling when they are in an evaluation.That could become a problem for AI companies that use evaluations to gauge the capabilities and behaviors of their models before releasing them. If models act differently during testing, that could mean they get released with undesirable tendencies. It could also undermine their creators’ ability to show... Read more ›
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When Palo Alto Networks earlier this year began testing Anthropic’s Claude Mythos to comb through its own source code, it didn’t take long to see the future of cybersecurity. It also didn’t take long to see what that future would cost. The model found more than two dozen critical vulnerabilities in around three weeks, roughly five times what the company would typically find using existing tools, said Sam Rubin, senior... Read more ›
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Chinese AI developer MiniMax on Monday launched a new large language model called M3, saying the new model’s coding capability approaches that of Anthropic’s Opus 4.7, which was released in April. The new MiniMax model is particularly suitable for coding and complex multi-step tasks for AI ... Read more ›
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Nvidia unveiled a new chip for personal computers alongside Microsoft on Monday, a major step into the PC chip market long led by Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and Apple. The new chip, called N1X, will power a new line of Windows computers starting this fall, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during ... Read more ›
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Intel plans to ship a new AI chip by the end of this year, betting that a cheaper, simpler processor can give it a new foothold in a market dominated by Nvidia, according to a Financial Times interview with Kevork Kechichian, who leads Intel’s data centre group. The chip, code-named Crescent ... Read more ›
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The U.S. Commerce Department issued guidance on Sunday saying Chinese companies still need licences to buy advanced US AI chips, even when they try to do it through an overseas offshoot. The move shuts a potential workaround that let Chinese firms source powerful US AI chips through their ... Read more ›
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Two months after Microsoft’s conscious uncoupling from OpenAI, Microsoft wants to prove it’s thriving as an AI provider that doesn’t have to rely on the ChatGPT maker’s technology. Microsoft’s annual Build conference for roughly 2,500 app developers, which kicks off Tuesday in San Francisco, will be a “debutante ball” of sorts for its team developing AI models that aim to be an alternative to those from OpenAI and Anthropic. Read more ›
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Anthropic reduced the list of secondary markets it says aren’t authorized to buy or sell its shares, scaling back guidance that had prompted confusion. The company revised guidance on its website about unauthorized stock sales to list four explicitly barred platforms, half the number in an ... Read more ›
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AI researchers may have the hottest job in tech, but forward-deployed engineers who put the AI to good use are becoming indispensable too. The military-inspired job title, which Palantir began using in the context of business software more than a decade ago, has spread to all corners of the industry. Last week, for instance, Meta formed a new organization involving FDEs that aims to get more advertisers to also use... Read more ›
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SoftBank Group announced a commitment to develop and operate five gigawatts of AI data center capacity in France, with an investment of up to 75 billion euros, or about $87.5 billion. The commitment is SoftBank’s largest AI infrastructure investment to date in Europe, the company said on ... Read more ›
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The U.S. Space Force awarded a $4.16 billion contract to SpaceX as part of a program to deploy space-based sensors to track and target airborne threats. The deal for the Space-Based Airborne Moving Target Indicator program, announced Friday, highlights the increasingly important government ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Can OpenAI’s revenue chief catch Anthropic in enterprise tech?• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Deep Cover: The Family Man,” “1873” and “Legends”On Tuesday, I dropped in at JPMorgan Chase’s glitzy new Midtown headquarters for a confab on national security, a sector that has become an investment pillar for the banking giant. While the event encompassed other areas like energy and supply... Read more ›
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Before former Slack CEO Denise Dresser joined OpenAI in December as its chief revenue officer, the company’s efforts to sell its products to business customers were sometimes clunky. Earlier in 2025, for example, the company had struck an agreement with Databricks, which would sell OpenAI products alongside the database software provider’s own products. But some potential customers were confused about which salespeople to reach, remembers Andy Kofoid, president of global... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms plans to start testing an AI pendant in the next year as part of an ambitious roadmap for wearable devices aimed at reversing the huge losses in its hardware division. An internal memo describing the roadmap, reviewed by The Information, also lays out plans to ... Read more ›
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