Meta Enters Cloud Market With AI Compute Offering
The data centers that train Meta’s models spend part of every day running near empty. Meta Platforms is now trying to sell that spare capacity, announcing plans to offer AI…
OpenAI Offers U.S. Government 5% Stake in Exchange for GPT-5.6 Approval
The proposal landed days after the request to delay. Sam Altman has offered the U.S. government a 5% stake in OpenAI as a “national interest safeguard,” in exchange for a…
U.S. Lifts Export Restrictions on Anthropic’s Claude Models
The models had been on the list for months. The Trump administration has lifted export restrictions on Anthropic’s flagship Claude models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, according to CNBC, clearing…
Qualcomm in Talks With ByteDance on Custom AI Chip Design
The chip inside the phone is no longer the whole business. Qualcomm is in discussions with ByteDance to design custom artificial intelligence chips for the Chinese company’s data centers, according…
Meta in Talks With Samsung for $6.5 Billion AI Chip Foundry Order
Inside Samsung Electronics’ foundry division, the phone-chip orders that once set the calendar have given way to a different kind of customer. Meta Platforms is in talks with Samsung to…
Meta Says ‘Watermelon’ Model Matches GPT-5.5 in Internal Tests
The model has a fruit name and a budget to match. Meta Platforms’ next-generation large language model, code-named Watermelon, has matched OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 on key benchmark scores in internal testing,…
Microsoft Creates Frontier Unit to Install AI Inside Corporate Operations
Satya Nadella has a name for the part of artificial intelligence that never makes it into a keynote demo: the last mile. Microsoft’s chief executive moved this week to close…
Nvidia Slips Below $200 as AI Spending Comes Under Scrutiny
The level had become a psychological marker as much as a price, and this week the market passed through it. Nvidia’s shares traded below $200 for the first time in…
Sandwich Chain’s IPO Filing Is Full of AI. Investors Should Read It Twice
The filing runs to hundreds of pages, and the word appears dozens of times: artificial intelligence, or its ubiquitous abbreviation, AI. The company making the filing sells submarine sandwiches. Jersey…
Melinda Gates Backs Magnify Ventures’ Second Fund
The fund is small by the standards of the industry, and its investor list includes one of the most prominent names in American philanthropy. Magnify Ventures has closed its second…
