Meta’s AI Unit Draws Petition Signed by More Than 1,600 Employees
The email subject line read “Applied AI — You Have Been Selected.” There was no opt-out. Within weeks, thousands of Meta engineers and product managers had been reassigned, by fiat,…
U.S. Orders Anthropic to Disable Two Models Worldwide
Anthropic executives got the word by phone on a weekday morning: the United States government was directing the company to take its two most powerful artificial-intelligence models offline, everywhere, at…
BofA Sees the Server CPU Market Quintuple by 2030
The computer chip that the AI boom was supposed to make irrelevant is having a comeback, and Bank of America has put a number on it. The server CPU market…
GitHub Copilot Moves to Usage-Based Pricing
On June 1, GitHub retired the currency it had used to bill for its AI coding assistant and replaced it with a new one: tokens. Every Copilot plan now works…
Meta Weighs a Stock Sale to Fund Its AI Push
Meta Platforms is considering raising tens of billions of dollars through a stock offering to help finance its artificial intelligence buildout, according to people familiar with the discussions. The talks…
Broadcom’s $120 Billion Seat at the AI Financing Table
Broadcom makes the networking chips that move data inside AI data centers. Increasingly, it also helps pay for the data centers themselves. The company has participated in financing for artificial…
AMD’s Revenue Jumps 38% as Its AI Chips Close the Gap
Advanced Micro Devices reported first-quarter revenue of $10.25 billion, up 37.85% from a year earlier, the fastest growth in years, as its AI accelerators and server processors found buyers across…
Nvidia’s Margin and Its $5 Billion Bet on a Rival
Two numbers from Nvidia describe the AI chip market better than any earnings call. The company’s gross margin reached 74.9% in its latest quarter, and it announced a $5 billion…
Google Finishes an $85 Billion Equity Raise for Its AI Buildout
Alphabet has completed the largest equity offering in its history, raising roughly $85 billion to fund the data centers, chips and power that its AI push requires. The capital is…
Intel’s Rally Runs on 18A, Apple and a Turnaround Narrative
Fourteen months ago, Intel’s stock traded near $11 and the company’s future was the subject of an open debate about whether it would survive as a chip designer, a foundry…
