Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 on a Day of Two Wins
The announcement hit the top of Hacker News within hours, drawing more than 1,500 points and over 1,000 comments, the kind of reception developers reserve for releases that change how…
Nvidia Deepens Taiwan Bet With $150 Billion Annual Pledge
The celebration in Taipei had the feel of a homecoming. Roughly 1,000 Nvidia employees gathered Wednesday at an event marking the launch of the company’s planned Taiwan headquarters, joined by…
Altman Says the AI Jobs Apocalypse He Once Predicted Probably Won’t Happen
In 2023, Sam Altman told audiences that “jobs are definitely going to go away” as AI improved. By 2025, he was warning that entire categories of white-collar work, especially entry-level…
CNN Sues Perplexity, Widening News Industry’s Fight Over AI Search
CNN filed a lawsuit this week against Perplexity AI, accusing the AI search company of scraping and reproducing copyrighted news content at scale, according to the complaint. The suit is…
Tesla’s Own AI Trainers Doubt Full Self-Driving, Reuters Investigation Finds
The workers who teach Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system to read the road have a close view of what it can do. Reviewing hours of footage from the eight cameras on…
Google Deepens Intel Chip Ties in AI Cloud Push
The announcement arrived as a routine press release on an April morning, but the engineering detail buried in it says more about how AI data centers are changing than most…
HP’s Profit Climbs as AI PCs Lift Sales
The call came on a Wednesday afternoon, and the interim chief executive led with the word that has become HP’s most important sales pitch: AI. Bruce Broussard, who is running…
Musk Leaves Door Open on Colossus Lease
Elon Musk posted the update on X late Wednesday in his usual clipped style: SpaceX had not committed to a long-term lease of Colossus, the Memphis supercomputer his companies built…
Snowflake Commits $6 Billion to AWS in AI Expansion
Snowflake’s founders built the company on Amazon Web Services in 2015, and on Wednesday the data-cloud company deepened that bet by an order of magnitude. Snowflake said it signed a…
YouTube to Automatically Label AI-Generated Videos
A creator uploads a video that looks like real footage of a real person — a politician, a celebrity, a neighbor — and does not say the images were generated.…
