TSMC’s Bonus Math: Record Profit, Restless Workers
The complaints spilled across employee forums this week in a tone TSMC rarely hears from its own people: anger. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract chipmaker, posted record…
Meta’s Forum App Takes On Reddit, Quietly
There was no press release and no keynote. One morning last week, an app called Forum appeared on Apple’s App Store, and by Friday it had a name in Silicon…
Anthropic Nears a $30 Billion Raise, Closing In on OpenAI’s Valuation
For the first time, corporate spending on Claude has edged past spending on ChatGPT, according to data that investors have been passing around this month. Ramp’s April AI Index, a…
Starship’s Fuel Handoff: SpaceX Masters In-Orbit Propellant Transfer
Two Starship vehicles met in orbit this week and did something no pair of spacecraft had done before at this scale: one passed roughly 100 metric tons of supercooled liquid…
xAI’s $6 Billion Raise: Musk’s AI Lab Valued at $40 Billion
Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence company has a new price tag. xAI said it closed a $6 billion Series C round that values the firm at $40 billion, with Fidelity and Valor…
GPT-5’s Wider Net: OpenAI Opens Flagship Model to Free Users
The shift arrived over the weekend without a banner. Users of ChatGPT’s free tier opened the app and found a model they had never been given before: GPT-5, OpenAI’s flagship…
Arm Tops $300 Billion as SoftBank’s Bet Comes Full Circle
The number that had been building for months finally arrived on Thursday. Arm Holdings crossed the $300 billion market-capitalization threshold for the first time, closing in on its highest valuation…
Starship V3’s First Flight Stalls on a Stuck Hydraulic Pin
The countdown reached the final minutes and then stopped. SpaceX’s Starship V3, the largest rocket the company has ever rolled to a pad, was scheduled for its first flight Thursday…
Moonshot AI Unwinds Its Offshore Structure to Chase a Hong Kong IPO
The holding company is coming down. Moonshot AI, the Chinese artificial-intelligence startup behind the Kimi assistant, has notified shareholders that it plans to dismantle its variable-interest-entity and red-chip structure, according…
SpaceX Files Reveal a 10-Gigawatt Solar Factory in Texas
The permit applications landed in Bastrop County’s records office weeks before anyone noticed them, and they describe something no rocket company has built before: a solar manufacturing plant with 10…
