Intel Pushes Its AI Inference Software onto Xeon Servers
Most of the queries that artificial intelligence systems answer will never touch the most expensive chip in the building. Intel’s argument, made in a release on October 17, is that…
Tenstorrent Hires Bankers as the Chip Startup Weighs Its Options
For five years Tenstorrent has sold itself as the chip company that would rather license its designs than become another capital-hungry manufacturer of accelerators. On October 17 the company hired…
Anthropic’s Internal Report Finds Junior Engineers at 14% of Technical Staff
A graduate who joined Anthropic’s engineering organization in early 2025 walked into a team where roughly one in five technical employees was at a similar stage in their career. Eighteen…
OpenAI Dismisses an Engineer Accused of Bugging an Executive Meeting Room
OpenAI confirmed on October 18 that it had dismissed an employee accused of placing a recording device in an executive meeting room at its San Francisco office, a case that…
Replit Makes OpenAI Its Default Model, Ending Its Anthropic Arrangement
Amjad Masad was on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 17 when the question of which models sit behind Replit’s coding agent came up, and his answer reversed what the…
Nvidia’s RTX Spark Goes on Sale in Six Cities, With Lines and Few Orders
The queue outside the San Francisco venue on October 17 was the kind that hardware launches are staged to produce. RTX Spark laptops went on sale in six cities the…
The AI Credit Market Puts a Price on Doubt
The bond pays 9.75 percent and matures in 2031, and this week it was quoted at a yield to maturity of 15.78 percent, a level that in most of the…
Anthropic Asks Lawyers to Write the Rules for Agents That Negotiate
The questions arrive at the drafting stage now, before anyone files a claim: how often a software agent should stop and check with the person it works for in the…
Engineer Accused of Hiding a Recorder at OpenAI Asks to Be Released
The filing reached the docket in San Francisco federal court on Friday evening, three days before a hearing on whether Abdulrahman Alfozan waits for trial in custody. The argument inside…
Mercedes and Nvidia Push Their Driving Partnership Into the Next Decade
The word in the joint announcement was “robolimousine.” Mercedes-Benz and Nvidia said on October 16 that they are expanding a partnership that already spans several vehicle generations, and that the…
