OpenAI Expands Free ChatGPT With GPT-5.6 Luna
SAN FRANCISCO—The free tier of the most popular AI product on earth is about to get bigger. OpenAI said on Aug. 6 that it is updating its ChatGPT experience, giving…
Microsoft Opens Fourth Cloud Region in India
HYDERABAD—The cranes have come down and the servers are running. Microsoft said on Aug. 6 that its cloud region in Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana state, has officially opened, making…
Alphabet Sells $25 Billion in Bonds as AI Demand Surges
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—The order book closed at roughly $115 billion, a pile of demand so large that it ranked among the biggest of the year. Alphabet said Thursday it has…
Researchers Use AI to Design New Viruses
BOSTON—The virus did not exist anywhere in nature, and it was designed in a laboratory by a machine that learned biology from text. American researchers said this week that they…
U.S. Reviews Routes for Nvidia Chips Reaching China
WASHINGTON—The enforcement machinery that controls the world’s most important chips is being aimed at a new set of questions. The U.S. government has reopened its review of how China obtains…
SoftBank Borrows $10 Billion Against OpenAI Stake
TOKYO—The loan has no collateral in the usual sense; its security is a stake in a company that did not exist five years ago. SoftBank Group has borrowed $10 billion…
Hadrian Raises $1.37 Billion for Defense Manufacturing
HAWTHORNE, Calif.—The machines in the factory do not look like weapons, and the company that runs them insists they are not in the business of making any. Hadrian builds precision…
Lumilens Raises $700 Million for Optical Interconnects
SAN JOSE, Calif.—The copper cables under the world’s data centers are running out of headroom, and a startup few people had heard of a year ago just raised a large…
Mubadala Weighs $6.3 Billion Data Center Bet in Japan
ABU DHABI—The oil-rich sheikhdom is looking north, to a prefecture in Japan known for rice paddies and sake, not servers. Mubadala, Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, is evaluating an investment…
Alphabet Returns to Debt Market With $25 Billion Bond Sale
The term sheets began moving through Wall Street syndicate desks before the trading day started: ten tranches, maturities stretching from two years to forty, and a target of as much…
