Amazon Cuts Corporate Jobs Again, a Narrow Round in Retail
When Amazon trims corporate staff, the company usually names a big number. This time the number was small, and the company appeared to want it that way. The e-commerce giant…
Nvidia Brings Its DGX Station to Windows Desktops
The box Nvidia showed off on October 7 looks, at first glance, like a workstation. The numbers attached to it tell a different story: 748 gigabytes of unified memory and…
Microsoft Hands Copilot the Keys to Windows
The announcement came in the middle of a product event in which Microsoft unveiled new laptops and chips, and it was easy to miss amid the hardware. But it was…
SK Hynix’s Solidigm Taps Goldman and Morgan Stanley for a 2027 Listing
The investment bankers who spent late September pitching for a piece of Solidigm’s initial public offering got their answer this week. SK Hynix’s NAND-memory subsidiary has chosen Goldman Sachs and…
Anthropic Cuts Prices With Haiku 5.5 as It Nears an IPO
The model arrived on October 7 with a price tag attached to the announcement, which is not how Anthropic usually introduces its products. Claude Haiku 5.5, the third model in…
Anthropic’s IPO Pitch Meets a Wall of Skepticism
Michael Burry, the investor who bet against the housing market before the 2008 crash, has a new target. A research firm has pegged Anthropic’s value at $150 billion, about 92%…
The AI Chip Boom Is Moving to the Bond Market
The companies spending the most on artificial intelligence are increasingly borrowing to pay for it. Broadcom Inc. is in talks to arrange financing of more than $50 billion to fund…
OpenAI’s New Model Turns Answers Into Things You Can Click
For two years, ChatGPT answered questions with text. On Oct. 7, OpenAI began pushing out a version that answers with interfaces. The company rolled out GPT-6 to every tier of…
TSMC Sets Another Revenue Record as AI Demand Holds
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is running ahead of its own forecasts, and the gap keeps widening. On Oct. 8, the world’s largest contract chipmaker said September revenue rose 54.6% from…
Samsung’s Profit Surges 782% as AI Chip Demand Outruns Supply
Samsung Electronics Co. crossed a line on Oct. 8 that no quarter of its history had ever reached. In its preliminary guidance for the third quarter, the company said operating…
