Broadcom’s Anthropic Orders Reshape a Custom-Chip Bet
When Broadcom’s chief executive Hock Tan took questions on an earnings call in December, he gave investors a name they had spent three months trying to guess. The mystery customer…
xAI Releases Grok 4.7 at an Unchanged Price, Still Behind the Frontier
When xAI shipped Grok 4.7 on Sunday, the company did something unusual in a market where every new model seems to cost more: it kept the price exactly where it…
TSMC Pulls A14 Pilot Production Into 2027
TSMC’s most advanced process node is moving faster than the company’s own schedule. The chipmaker has pulled pilot production of its A14 process, its 1.4-nanometer-class node, forward to the first…
Samsung Expands Memory Output and Backs a Nuclear Reactor
Samsung is pushing on two fronts at once. In its fabs, the company is adding 4-nanometer capacity to make memory chips and compete head-on with SK Hynix for orders. Across…
SK Hynix Halts 2GB GDDR7 Chips as Memory Shortage Spreads
The memory shortage that has driven chip prices higher all year has now reached the graphics card inside a gamer’s PC. SK Hynix has stopped making the 2-gigabyte GDDR7 memory…
British Columbia Sues OpenAI Over a School Shooting’s Cost
Months before an 18-year-old walked into a school in the northeast British Columbia town of Tumbler Ridge and killed eight people, OpenAI’s safety team had already flagged the gun-violence content…
Anthropic Juggles a UN Briefing, IPO Plans and a Bay Area Wet Lab
Dario Amodei will appear before the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, not in person but over a video link, to tell its members about the risks of artificial intelligence.…
OpenAI Asks Washington to Lead on Global AI Safety Standards
OpenAI published an essay on September 21 that amounted to a request for help from the world’s governments: do not let each country write its own rules for artificial intelligence.…
AMD’s Value Crosses $1 Trillion on a Data-Center Surge
Lisa Su’s company has spent a decade climbing back toward the top of the chip industry. On September 21, for a few hours at least, it got there. AMD’s market…
Amazon Bars Meta’s Muse From Its Store as Shopify Signs On
One evening last week, a Meta customer asked the company’s new personal AI assistant to buy something on Amazon, and the order never went through. At checkout, the shopper saw…
