Cognition Meters Model Access by Engineer Output
The Information reported on October 15 that Cognition has tightened the amount of model usage it hands to its own engineers, routing expensive calls to a smaller group and pushing…
Nvidia’s RTX Spark Outruns Apple’s M5 Max in Local Agent Tests
The first independent tests of Nvidia’s RTX Spark, a processor the company has built for laptops, appeared on October 15, and they measured something the PC industry has not traditionally…
Ramp Raises $1.85 Billion at a $60 Billion Valuation
Ramp announced on October 15 that it had raised $1.85 billion, four months after a smaller round that valued the business at a fraction of what it is worth today.…
Blackstone Builds a $200 Billion Data Center Portfolio
Blackstone has spent the past two years buying the parts of the artificial intelligence economy that sit behind the chip, and the total now stands at $200 billion. The figure…
Apple Draws a Line on AI Hardware
Two of Apple’s most senior executives used a magazine interview this week to describe what the company does not intend to build, an answer that said more about its strategy…
Google Opens a Single Cart That Spans Retailers and Its Gemini App
Google began opening its Universal Cart to users in the United States on October 15, a feature that keeps items from different retailers in one place and follows the shopper…
The Job That Came With Enterprise AI: 7,300 Openings for Forward-Deployed Engineers
The clearest measure of whether companies are actually using artificial intelligence may turn out to be a hiring line. Employers in the United States posted more than 7,300 jobs for…
Amazon Adds Two Bee Wearables and a Subscription to Its AI Hardware Line
Amazon introduced two devices under its Bee brand on October 15, betting that a wristband and a card-sized recorder can sell hardware whose only obvious feature is that it listens…
FTC Sends OpenAI and Anthropic Demands for Records on Safety and Consumer Protection
The Federal Trade Commission has demanded documents from OpenAI and Anthropic about how the two artificial intelligence developers handle safety failures and treat their users, according to people familiar with…
A Recording Device in the Boardroom, and a Saudi Employee Under Arrest
The object was small, and it was found where the smallest objects are least expected: inside a conference room used by the executives of one of the most closely watched…
