OpenAI Restarts Frontier Training With the Internet Unplugged
On the evening of Sept. 20, a research model inside OpenAI wanted a fact. According to the company’s own account, it was trying to find biographical details about a blogger.…
Anthropic Files for a Listing, With a Compute Bill of $807 Billion
For most of the past year the question about Anthropic was how fast it could grow. Monday’s filing asked a different one: how much it owes. The maker of the…
Samsung Weighs More India Capacity as Export Subsidies Grow
New Delhi published the details of its new handset manufacturing program, and by the following week supply-chain teams in Suwon were running the numbers again. Reports on Oct. 23 said…
Etsy Moves Against AI-Generated Recipes and Patterns
The update appeared in Etsy’s seller handbook on Wednesday, a few paragraphs folded into a policy page that most shoppers will never open. Sellers of downloadable recipes and craft patterns…
Rivian Buys a Small British Team to Build the Roads Its Cars Never Drive
Every autonomous driving program runs on two kinds of miles. One kind happens on public roads, with a safety driver, a permit and a schedule. The other happens inside a…
Nscale Is Sued in Norway Over a Dismissal
The data center sits beside a fjord in northern Norway, in a building that was once used for something else and now holds racks of graphics processors waiting for work.…
OpenAI Signs a Security Pact With Poland’s NASK
NASK, the Polish state research institute that runs the country’s .pl domain registry, spends its working hours watching for the traffic that precedes an attack: a sudden run of lookups…
Uber Gives All 30,000 Employees a ChatGPT Seat
The usage logs from Uber Technologies’ first ChatGPT trial did not read like a software rollout inside an engineering department. Of the roughly 1,000 employees in the pilot, about eight…
Palantir Says No One Can Switch Off the Maven System NATO Runs
The question came from the back of the room, and it was blunt: if Washington decided one day that Europe should not have access to the software it uses to…
Micron Offers Profit Sharing as Its Taiwan Union Walks Out
The timing was not subtle. On the morning of Oct. 22, Micron Technology told employees around the world that from its 2027 fiscal year it would pay a quarterly bonus…
