Boeing Reaches a Tentative Deal With Its Engineers, Easing a Strike Threat
The engineers and technical workers who design and certify Boeing’s planes voted down a contract offer in August and authorized a strike. On the other side of that standoff, the…
SpaceX’s Starship Is Set to Carry Its First Commercial Payload
The world’s largest rocket has flown thirteen times, and every one of those flights carried test hardware or nothing at all. The fourteenth, according to a Federal Aviation Administration airspace…
Nscale Adds a Former OpenAI Deputy to Its Board Ahead of a U.S. Listing
Fidji Simo spent three years running the business side of OpenAI as chief executive of its AGI deployment arm, the second-in-command behind Sam Altman. Before that she led Instacart through…
Cohere in Talks to Raise Up to $3 Billion at a $20 Billion Valuation
A Toronto-based AI company that has spent three years positioning itself as the non-American alternative to OpenAI is now in talks to raise money on a scale no Canadian private…
Nvidia’s CEO Brushes Off the ‘Circular Financing’ Question
On a stage at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia+ technology conference on September 10, Jensen Huang was asked about the charge that has trailed Nvidia for more than a year: that the…
Microsoft Adds xAI’s Grok to Copilot’s Word, Excel and PowerPoint
A worker drafting a quarterly report in Word can now call on a model built by Elon Musk’s xAI without leaving the document. On September 12, Microsoft began rolling out…
Meta Faces a Privacy Suit Over Face Data Drawn From User Photos
A father in Illinois and his teenage son use Facebook and Instagram the way tens of millions of people do, posting photos without thinking about what happens to the faces…
Broadcom’s VMware Licensing Overhaul Draws Another Round of EU Questions
A European cloud provider renewed its VMware contract this year and opened a bill that was roughly eight times what it had paid the year before. Some customers report increases…
Ellison Cancels a $7.5 Billion Oracle Stock Sale
Larry Ellison set up the plan on June 22, and it was not public until September 11. The Oracle executive chairman had arranged, through a 10b5-1 trading plan, to sell…
A Researcher’s Resignation Pushes Lawmakers Toward New AI Rules
Jacob Coxon’s exit was not quiet. The researcher, who had worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned on September 8 and wrote on X that leading AI companies are “gambling…
