Microsoft’s 200-Euro Bet on Game Hardware
The price of an Xbox Series X rose by as much as 200 euros in Europe and the UK on August 1, according to Video Games Chronicle, as Microsoft stopped…
OpenAI’s Revenue Keeps Climbing as a Key Researcher Returns
In an all-hands meeting this month, OpenAI’s chief financial officer delivered a message the company rarely puts on the record: the growth has not slowed down. Sarah Friar told employees…
Anthropic Says It Never Sought to Ban Open-Weight AI Models
Anthropic moved July 28 to correct what it called a misreading of its position on open-weight AI models, saying it has never advocated for banning them. The clarification, issued by…
Hugging Face Demands $100 Million in Compute From OpenAI After Agent Breach
The chief executive of Hugging Face spent the weekend with engineers pulling logs from an intrusion that most of the AI industry had hoped to treat as an internal testing…
Xbox Live Goes Dark, and Even Single-Player Games Stop Working
The error message appeared on millions of screens on July 27: a failed sign-in, a license check that would not complete, a game that refused to launch. Xbox Live, Microsoft’s…
Fields Medal Winner Jacob Zimmermann Joins OpenAI
The question came at the end of a long press conference, after the congratulations and the questions about number theory. Jacob Zimmermann, minutes earlier awarded one of the four Fields…
Hoffman and Pincus Found AI Lab Prentis With $100 Million in Sight
The founding team reads like a roll call of the internet’s first social era. Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder who became one of artificial intelligence’s most visible investors, and Mark…
Blackstone Credits AI Infrastructure for 26% Jump in Earnings
Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative-asset manager, reported second-quarter distributable earnings of $1.98 billion on Wednesday, up 26 percent from a year earlier, and pointed to its artificial-intelligence infrastructure investments as…
AMD Keeps Falling Even as Wall Street Raises Its Targets
The upgrades kept coming, and the stock kept falling. Advanced Micro Devices shares slid again on Thursday, extending a run of losses, even as UBS and Bank of America raised…
Microsoft Cuts 4,800 Jobs in an Overhaul Reaching Deep Into Xbox
Microsoft told employees this week that it will cut about 4,800 roles, roughly 2 percent of its workforce, in a restructuring that reaches deep into its Xbox gaming business, according…
