Nvidia Tells Big Customers AI Server Prices Will Rise More Than 15%
The notice arrived over the past week, and it carried a message that procurement teams at the world’s largest cloud providers had been dreading: Nvidia Corp. is raising prices on…
MacKenzie Scott’s New Novel Skips Publishers for a Free Substack Serial
The first installment of MacKenzie Scott’s third novel landed not in a bookstore or on a publisher’s spring list but on her personal Substack page, where subscribers found it waiting…
British Cinemas Move to Keep Meta’s AI Glasses Out of Their Screens
Cinemas across Britain have begun restricting Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses, worried that the devices’ cameras can be used to record new films, according to Reuters, which reported the restrictions on…
Google Gives Publishers a New Tool to Steer AI Search Their Way
Google on Wednesday released Preferred Sources, a tool that lets publishers designate the sources they want featured in AI-generated search answers, an attempt to give news organizations more control over…
SK Hynix Weighs Its First Chip Factory in Japan, a Bet on AI Memory Demand
SK Hynix is considering building a memory chip factory in Japan, with investment that could reach several trillion Korean won, according to the Hankyoreh, a South Korean newspaper that reported…
OpenAI’s Enterprise Spending Growth Catches Up With Anthropic
OpenAI is now growing its spending from enterprise customers at a pace that matches, and in some cases exceeds, Anthropic’s, according to data from Ramp, a corporate payments and expense…
Nevada Lets Tesla, Uber, and Waymo Put 8,000 Robotaxis on Las Vegas Streets
Nevada regulators on Friday approved Tesla, Uber, and Waymo to operate driverless taxis in Las Vegas, a decision that allows the three companies to deploy up to 8,000 robotaxis combined…
Nvidia Pays $6 Billion to License Poolside’s Model Factory and Hires Its Team
Nvidia has agreed to pay $6 billion for a license to Poolside’s Model Factory, the software platform the AI startup used to build its coding models, and to hire 109…
Broadcom Seeks $60 Billion or More in Debt to Fund Its AI Chip Push
Broadcom is in talks with a group of banks about raising more than $60 billion in new debt, with the total potentially reaching $100 billion, to fund an expansion of…
Anthropic’s IPO Ambition: Raise as Much as SpaceX Did
Anthropic is telling prospective investors that its initial public offering could raise as much as, or more than, the roughly $86 billion that SpaceX collected when it listed, according to…
