Qualcomm Buys the Software That Moves a Robot’s Arm
Qualcomm spent Tuesday selling investors on a phone chip that can run an AI agent without a cloud. On Wednesday it bought a company that teaches robots how to move,…
Nscale’s $35 Billion Listing Rests on a Few Buyers
The numbers that will greet investors in Nscale’s offering documents are hard to hold together at once: roughly $103 billion in signed customer contracts, and $33 million in revenue last…
Meta’s Muse Agent Puts a Human on the Line
The voice answering on behalf of Meta’s newest product sounds like software, but for a slice of calls it isn’t. Behind a portion of the phone calls placed through Muse,…
Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 5.5 With Steeper Discounts
Anthropic chose this week to do two things at once: cut the price of its most capable model and push back its public debut. Both moves, coming within days of…
PayPal Lets Meta’s Muse Agent Check Out on Its Network
When Meta’s Muse agent shops for a user, the transaction has to end somewhere: a payment button, a merchant’s checkout page, a card on file. On Tuesday, PayPal said it…
SoftBank Sells $10 Billion in Bonds to Fund OpenAI Stake
The term sheet that reached investors this week set out a shape the bond market knows well: three tranches of dollar notes, maturities staggered out to seven and a half…
Meta’s Muse Tops the Charts, Then Runs Into Amazon
Meta released Muse on Sept. 8 with a simple pitch: a personal AI agent that could book tickets, sort email and act across the web on a user’s behalf. The…
Microsoft Cuts About 500 Jobs in Latest Xbox Shake-Up
Matt Booty, the executive in charge of Xbox’s games and studios, opened a memo to staff on Tuesday with a subject line that summed up the moment: continuing the reset.…
Anthropic and OpenEvidence to Give Free Medical AI to Poorer Countries
OpenEvidence began as a way for a doctor to ask a question and get an answer drawn from peer-reviewed research rather than a search engine. It is free for clinicians…
SpaceX Stops Taking Falcon 9 Bookings Beyond 2028
For years, satellite operators planning a launch a few years out could simply call SpaceX and secure a spot on a Falcon 9. That option is now closing. SpaceX has…
