Apple’s Trade-Secret Case Against OpenAI Heads to Trial Oct. 1
On Aug. 26, Apple told a federal court that every day of delay in its trade-secret case against OpenAI is causing more harm, responding to the AI company’s latest motion…
Microsoft Strikes Long-Term AI Deal With Saudi Arabia’s HUMAIN
Microsoft said on Aug. 26 that it has reached a long-term strategic agreement with HUMAIN, a Saudi Arabian company focused on artificial intelligence, to help drive the kingdom’s AI transformation.…
Micron Promotes Manish Bhatia to COO in Executive Reshuffle
Micron Technology announced on Aug. 26 a restructuring of its senior leadership, promoting Manish Bhatia to chief operating officer and naming Scott DeBoer chief technology and product officer, a reorganization…
Anthropic Researchers Warn of ‘Mind Viruses’ Spreading Between AI Agents
The exchange lasted only a few sentences. One AI agent told another to adopt a new belief and pass it along, and within moments the instruction had taken hold: the…
SoftBank Explores Up to $20 Billion Bond Sale to Refinance OpenAI Stake
SoftBank Group executives have begun talks with investment banks about a bond offering that could raise between $10 billion and $20 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, part…
Emerald AI Raises $150 Million to Turn Data Centers Into Flexible Power Users
On hot afternoons in California, when grid operators plead for every megawatt, a data center running Emerald AI’s software does the opposite of what its tenants expect: it throttles back.…
Anthropic Pitches Investors on $30 Trillion Market Ahead of Planned IPO
The pitch begins with a number that dwarfs the global economy: more than $30 trillion. Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, plans to tell prospective investors that its…
OpenAI Restores Five-Hour Usage Cap on ChatGPT Plus
On the morning of Aug. 25, a familiar message returned for some ChatGPT Plus subscribers: usage limit reached. OpenAI has restored its rolling five-hour cap for the standard tier of…
OpenAI Infrastructure Executive Chris Malone Departs
Chris Malone, the executive who oversaw construction of OpenAI’s data centers, has left the company, according to people familiar with the matter. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed that Malone is no…
Former Google Researchers Raise $6.5 Million to Build an AI ‘Judge’
Rishub Jain, a former Google researcher, spent years watching AI models grow more capable and less predictable. Now he is betting that the answer is a referee: a human-machine system…
