Apple and OpenAI Carry Their Fight Into the Open
The lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI has moved from the courtroom to the court of public opinion. This week OpenAI publicly posted private communications between the two companies, arguing that…
OpenAI Pauses Parts of Astra Development After Model Crosses Cyber Threshold
OpenAI said it has paused some development work on Astra, its next major model, after internal evaluations found the system can independently identify and exploit software vulnerabilities in hardened, real-world…
Hassabis Steps Aside as DeepMind CEO to Focus on Research
Demis Hassabis, the co-founder who built Google’s most consequential artificial-intelligence laboratory, is stepping aside as chief executive of Google DeepMind. He will become chairman of the unit and chief scientist…
Nvidia to Invest Up to $3 Billion in Stargate Power Developer Lancium
Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $3 billion in Lancium, the power-infrastructure developer behind the Stargate artificial-intelligence data-center campus in Texas, according to people familiar with the matter.…
Mubadala Weighs $6.3 Billion Data Center Bet in Japan
ABU DHABI—The oil-rich sheikhdom is looking north, to a prefecture in Japan known for rice paddies and sake, not servers. Mubadala, Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, is evaluating an investment…
Lumilens Raises $700 Million for Optical Interconnects
SAN JOSE, Calif.—The copper cables under the world’s data centers are running out of headroom, and a startup few people had heard of a year ago just raised a large…
Hadrian Raises $1.37 Billion for Defense Manufacturing
HAWTHORNE, Calif.—The machines in the factory do not look like weapons, and the company that runs them insists they are not in the business of making any. Hadrian builds precision…
SoftBank Borrows $10 Billion Against OpenAI Stake
TOKYO—The loan has no collateral in the usual sense; its security is a stake in a company that did not exist five years ago. SoftBank Group has borrowed $10 billion…
U.S. Reviews Routes for Nvidia Chips Reaching China
WASHINGTON—The enforcement machinery that controls the world’s most important chips is being aimed at a new set of questions. The U.S. government has reopened its review of how China obtains…
Researchers Use AI to Design New Viruses
BOSTON—The virus did not exist anywhere in nature, and it was designed in a laboratory by a machine that learned biology from text. American researchers said this week that they…
