Anthropic Steps Up IPO Prep With Investor Meetings
The meetings are starting to appear on calendars. Anthropic executives have begun sitting down with prospective investors, according to a person familiar with the plans, as the artificial intelligence company…
Samsung Weighs Outsourcing Google TPU Design Work to Korean Houses
Inside Samsung Electronics’ chip design offices, the workload keeps growing. The company’s foundry division has been winning more orders as customers race to secure manufacturing capacity for AI chips, and…
Apple Courts Chip Startups as AI Server Plans Slip
The call came in quietly. Over the past weeks, executives from Apple’s silicon group have reached out to a handful of semiconductor startups to sound out interest in an acquisition,…
EU Opens Three-Year Antitrust Case Against Broadcom
The pressure has been building for months, and on Thursday it became official. The European Commission has opened a three-year antitrust case against Broadcom, according to people familiar with the…
AMD Keeps Falling Even as Wall Street Raises Its Targets
The upgrades kept coming, and the stock kept falling. Advanced Micro Devices shares slid again on Thursday, extending a run of losses, even as UBS and Bank of America raised…
ASML Lifts Outlook on AI Chip Demand, Faces New Export Scrutiny
The order book told the story before the executives did. ASML, the Dutch company that makes the lithography machines used to print the world’s most advanced chips, reported second-quarter results…
Meta Faces Class Action Over AI Screening That Targeted Workers on Leave
The spreadsheet made it to court. Meta is facing a class-action lawsuit, first reported by the Los Angeles Times, alleging that the company used an AI system to analyze employee…
OpenAI’s First Gadget Is a $230 Keyboard Built for AI Agents
The device looks like a prop from a science fiction film set. Codex Micro, OpenAI’s first consumer hardware product, is a compact desktop keyboard with a row of programmable keys,…
Microsoft Turns Its Sales Force Against OpenAI, Google and Anthropic
The training sessions have a new script. Microsoft is instructing its global sales teams to push the company’s own Copilot AI models over products from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, according…
EU Orders Google to Open Android and Search Data to AI Rivals
Brussels acted on Thursday, and the order was sweeping. The European Commission issued two legally binding specification measures against Google under the Digital Markets Act, forcing the company to give…
