Taiwan Plans Supplier Parks in Texas, With Private Money and Public Backing
Kung Ming-hsin, Taiwan’s economy minister, described the problem this week in the plain terms of a purchasing manager. The companies that make the racks, the cables, the cooling manifolds and…
A Brazilian Court Tells Meta to Leave the Election Alone
Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court moved on October 15, ten days before a runoff vote, with an order that leaves Meta little room to adjust what its platforms show. Judge Marco…
ChatGPT’s Ad Tools Accept a Customer Email List, a Reporter’s Test Shows
On October 15, 404 Media published an account of an experiment its reporter, Joseph Cox, ran inside ChatGPT’s advertising console. He uploaded a file of email addresses and phone numbers,…
Apple Tightens App Review Rules as Britain Presses on Contactless Payments
Apple rewrote two lines of its App Store rulebook on October 16, adding artificial intelligence to the list of tools developers must police and closing a door that some had…
Anthropic Takes a Draft AI Safety Bill to Congress, With a $1 Billion Trigger
On Capitol Hill, the folders that circulate in the office buildings along Independence Avenue are usually written by committee staff. A set of them that moved through meetings over the…
Anthropic Signs Its First Canadian Data Center Lease: 420 Megawatts for 20 Years
Point Tupper is a deep-water site on the Strait of Canso, in Cape Breton, where a pulp mill once ran and where the wind now blows hard enough that the…
Anthropic’s $60 Billion Chip Deal Carries a 10% Coupon and Sets a Benchmark for AI Debt
The term sheet that reached credit investors this week carried a number more often associated with a troubled retailer than with a company selling subscriptions to a chatbot. For 60…
SoftBank Weighs an $18 Billion Bet on the Business of Guarding Data Centers
At a data-center campus outside Dallas, the overnight shift begins with a handover that has changed little in decades: a clipboard, a radio check, a walk along the fence line.…
Amazon’s Bee Adds Two Personal AI Devices Starting at $75
Amazon’s Bee released two wearable AI devices on October 15, priced at $74.99 and $99.99, the first update to the product line since Amazon acquired the company in July 2025.…
Disney Will Pay $60 Million a Year for 66 Character.AI Employees
Disney plans to pay $60 million a year in salaries to 66 employees hired from Character.AI, and has set aside a $30 million retention pool. Over three years the compensation…
