SEC Moves to Lure Companies Back to Public Markets
The number of publicly traded companies in the United States has fallen by roughly half since the mid-1990s, from more than 8,000 to about 4,000 today. Regulators have blamed the…
Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 on a Day of Two Wins
The announcement hit the top of Hacker News within hours, drawing more than 1,500 points and over 1,000 comments, the kind of reception developers reserve for releases that change how…
Nvidia Deepens Taiwan Bet With $150 Billion Annual Pledge
The celebration in Taipei had the feel of a homecoming. Roughly 1,000 Nvidia employees gathered Wednesday at an event marking the launch of the company’s planned Taiwan headquarters, joined by…
Altman Says the AI Jobs Apocalypse He Once Predicted Probably Won’t Happen
In 2023, Sam Altman told audiences that “jobs are definitely going to go away” as AI improved. By 2025, he was warning that entire categories of white-collar work, especially entry-level…
CNN Sues Perplexity, Widening News Industry’s Fight Over AI Search
CNN filed a lawsuit this week against Perplexity AI, accusing the AI search company of scraping and reproducing copyrighted news content at scale, according to the complaint. The suit is…
GitHub Bans Security Researcher Who Published Windows Zero-Day Exploits
The researcher known online as Chaotic Eclipse and Nightmare-Eclipse has spent months at war with Microsoft. This week, the company, which owns GitHub, cut off one of their accounts, deleting…
Samsung Pay Deal Averts 18-Day Chip Strike
The vote closed at 7 a.m. Wednesday, minutes before a strike deadline that had hung over the world’s largest memory-chip maker for weeks. Union officials in Suwon, south of Seoul,…
Google Deepens Intel Chip Ties in AI Cloud Push
The announcement arrived as a routine press release on an April morning, but the engineering detail buried in it says more about how AI data centers are changing than most…
HP’s Profit Climbs as AI PCs Lift Sales
The call came on a Wednesday afternoon, and the interim chief executive led with the word that has become HP’s most important sales pitch: AI. Bruce Broussard, who is running…
Snowflake Commits $6 Billion to AWS in AI Expansion
Snowflake’s founders built the company on Amazon Web Services in 2015, and on Wednesday the data-cloud company deepened that bet by an order of magnitude. Snowflake said it signed a…
