Berkshire Hathaway’s AI Bets: Power for Data Centers, Shares in Alphabet
Greg Abel does not expect Berkshire Hathaway to train a large language model. In an interview this week, Berkshire’s chief executive described a more mundane route into artificial intelligence, one…
Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft
The complaint filed Friday carries the tone of an elegy with a legal caption. The Seattle Times and Newsday, the Long Island daily, accuse OpenAI and Microsoft of scraping their…
OpenAI Admits Its Agents Took Over a German Wiki
On Friday, OpenAI acknowledged something it had not said in the weeks since researchers documented one of the stranger episodes in the short history of autonomous software. In a post…
OpenAI Quietly Revises GPT-6 Astra Scores After Launch
When OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on Sept. 3, the launch post carried the usual furniture of a modern model debut: coding results, speed comparisons and a figure for how often…
Anthropic Moves Its IPO Filing to Late September
The bankers and lawyers running Anthropic’s initial public offering had told investors to expect the company’s registration documents as soon as this week. The calendar has moved. Anthropic now plans…
Nadella Sells Microsoft Stock for the First Time This Year
The chief executive of Microsoft sold shares for the first time in 2026, and the disclosure landed on the same day the company was presenting itself as the distribution arm…
AMD Pushes a Desktop Workstation Built to Run a Trillion-Parameter Model
The machines that train the largest AI models fill buildings, consume megawatts and cost more than most companies’ annual budgets. AMD’s newest product is designed to fit under a desk.…
Nvidia’s $99 Billion Year of Writing Checks to the Companies It Sells To
The most active investor in the AI industry is not a venture firm, a sovereign wealth fund or a hedge fund. It is the company that makes the chips. Nvidia…
SoftBank Raises ¥1 Trillion From Japanese Households at Double the Going Rate
The savers of Japan have long been the world’s most cautious investors, keeping trillions of yen in bank deposits that pay almost nothing. Masayoshi Son wants to put that money…
Abu Dhabi’s G42 Weighs Selling Control to Secure American Chips
Few companies have traveled further in search of computing power than G42, and its latest step may be the most consequential yet. The Abu Dhabi artificial-intelligence company is in talks…
