Vance Suspends Microsoft’s Path to Permanent Residency
Microsoft files more permanent labor certification applications than any company in the country. On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance said it would file no more, at least for now, while…
Boston Dynamics Hands Its Robots to the Man Who Built Alexa
For nearly a year, the company that makes the world’s most famous robots had no permanent leader. Robert Playter, who ran Boston Dynamics for six years and spent three decades…
A Coffee Giant Looks at a Burrito Chain
The report landed Tuesday and did what such reports do: it moved a stock on a rumor. On October 8, word emerged that Starbucks had held internal discussions about whether…
A $1.5 Billion Loan to Keep a Chip Supplier at Home
The letter arrived at Wolfspeed with a specific purpose: to keep a stretch of the American chip supply chain from leaving the country. On October 7, the War Department’s Office…
The Super Bowl, Now Behind a Subscribe Button
For half a century, the Super Bowl has been the one night when broadcast television could count on the whole country showing up at the same time, on the same…
A Chart, a $1.88 Cap, and a Fight Over the Chip Market’s Biggest Licenses
The dispute between Arm and Qualcomm, the two companies whose designs sit inside nearly every smartphone on Earth, returned to a Delaware federal courtroom this week, and the argument came…
Tesla Drops ‘Full Self-Driving’ Name in Europe, Where It Was Never True
The badge on Tesla’s European website changed this week, and the change was not cosmetic. Where customers had seen “Full Self-Driving (Supervised),” the company now writes “Tesla Assisted Driving.” The…
Apple Splits Its Fall Into Two October Events, Ending With an OLED MacBook
Apple sent out one invitation on October 8 with two words — “Welcome home” — and a date of October 13. By the end of the week, the company had…
Amazon Retires the $155 Fire Tablet and Sells Alexa at iPad Prices
For more than a decade, Amazon’s Fire tablet was the default answer to one question: what is the cheapest tablet that still works? The Fire HD 10, at $155, was…
ASML’s Next Lithography Leap May Be a Decade Away
The machine that prints the world’s most advanced chips is nearing the edge of what its optics can do, and the company that builds it has now put a number…
