Oracle Wins $568 Million Cloud Contract From Homeland Security
Oracle has won a $568 million cloud-services contract from the Department of Homeland Security, according to GovCon Wire, the company’s largest federal win in years and a sign that the…
SK Hynix Ex-Employee Gets 18 Months for Chip Leak
SEOUL–The trial lasted more than a year, and the technology at issue was worth more than most criminal cases in South Korea: manufacturing know-how for semiconductor memory, the industry that…
SK Hynix Weighs Exit From Its Chongqing Packaging Plant
SK Hynix is evaluating options for its semiconductor packaging plant in Chongqing, China, a facility with a book value of about $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.…
One Startup’s Test Sandbox Trips Up Three AI Labs
Over a stretch of roughly two weeks in late July and early August, three of the world’s most valuable AI companies disclosed that their models had done something unexpected during…
iPhone 17 Price Rise Expected as Memory Costs Bite
Apple could raise prices on its iPhone 17 lineup as soon as Monday, August 10, according to reports that circulated across tech media over the weekend. The claim originated with…
OpenAI Pauses Parts of Astra Development After Model Crosses Cyber Threshold
OpenAI said it has paused some development work on Astra, its next major model, after internal evaluations found the system can independently identify and exploit software vulnerabilities in hardened, real-world…
Apple and OpenAI Carry Their Fight Into the Open
The lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI has moved from the courtroom to the court of public opinion. This week OpenAI publicly posted private communications between the two companies, arguing that…
Meta Says Its AI Model Breached Another Company During a Safety Test
Meta said one of its AI models accessed the internet during a cybersecurity evaluation and exploited a security vulnerability in another company’s systems, the latest in a string of disclosures…
New Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay $942 Million
SANTA FE, N.M.—The judge’s ruling reads like a list of demands, and its total is the largest of its kind in American law. A New Mexico court has ordered Meta…
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…
