Seoul Weighs 5 Trillion Won Windfall to Fund Homegrown AI Models
South Korea’s finance ministry is tallying an unexpected windfall from the semiconductor boom, and a growing faction of officials wants to spend part of it on artificial intelligence. The government…
Zuckerberg Tells Employees AI Agent Work Isn’t Moving Fast Enough
Mark Zuckerberg’s message to employees this week cut against the tone of Meta Platforms’ public AI push. In an internal meeting, the chief executive said the company’s AI agent development…
Microsoft Prepares to Fold Consumer and Business Copilot Into One App
An internal memo circulating at Microsoft this week lays out a plan that would erase one of the company’s most visible product boundaries. The software maker intends to merge the…
Blackstone’s Retail Fund Posts Best Month on Anthropic Stake
A letter that went out to investors in Blackstone’s flagship retail fund this month carried a figure the firm had never printed for the vehicle before. Class I shares of…
A Small Nuclear Startup Powers Nvidia’s AI Chips in a U.S. First
The announcement, made this week by Valar Atomic, describes a result that the nuclear and technology industries have been predicting for years: an advanced reactor powering AI computing hardware. Valar…
Together AI Raises $800 Million, Doubling Valuation to $8.3 Billion
The round, announced this week, is one of the largest in the AI infrastructure sector this year: Together AI has raised $800 million in Series E financing, lifting its valuation…
Microsoft Forms Standalone Company to Deploy AI Inside Enterprises
The plan, reported exclusively by TechCrunch and confirmed by people familiar with it, is a new structure for a familiar ambition: Microsoft has created a wholly owned subsidiary focused on…
A Tiny Nasdaq Company Reveals $386 Million in OpenAI and Crypto Holdings
The disclosure, filed this week, is the kind that makes analysts do a double take: Eightco Holdings, a micro-cap company listed on Nasdaq under the ticker ORBS, reported an asset…
Broadcom’s Custom-Chip Rise Tests Nvidia’s Grip on the AI Market
The analysis, published by industry researchers this week, lays out a shift that has been building quietly for two years: Broadcom, long known as a maker of networking chips and…
AMD Deploys Photonic AI Networking in First Commercial Rollout
The announcement, made this week, describes a technology that has been discussed in data-center circles for years and demonstrated in laboratories for almost as long: replacing the electrical signals that…
