Workday Buys C1.ai to Decide Which Agents Get Access
At Workday’s customer conference in Las Vegas this week, executives spent much of their time describing a workforce that includes software agents doing work on their own. The purchase the…
Apple Puts Siri AI in the Living Room, and on a Kitchen Counter
Apple did not stage an event. It published a run of announcements on a Tuesday afternoon and let the products do the talking: a rebuilt streaming box, a refreshed smart…
Foxconn Pushes From Compute Trays to Whole AI Racks
At the Open Compute Project Global Summit in San Jose, Hon Hai Precision Industry put its newest hardware on the floor: a liquid-cooled cabinet holding 72 Nvidia Rubin graphics processors…
Samsung and AMD Pool Memory to Feed AI Inference
At the Open Compute Project Global Summit in San Jose this week, Samsung Electronics and AMD staged a demonstration that addressed a problem familiar to anyone running large models in…
Broadcom Sells a Patch That Doesn’t Need a Reboot
Broadcom introduced a security product for VMware on Oct. 13 that installs protection at the layer where virtual machines run, without restarting the machines, upgrading the software or dropping an…
DeepMind Offers Europe the Models Europe Is Still Deciding How to Govern
Google DeepMind and Google Cloud said Tuesday they will give up to 200 European scientific researchers direct access to their frontier models, along with $3 million in compute credits. The…
A 200,000-Seat Copilot Order Lands on the Firms That Must Change the Work
On Tuesday, Microsoft said it had signed agreements with four of India’s largest information-technology services firms, each committing to deploy more than 50,000 licenses of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Tata Consultancy…
Anthropic Hands Investors the Numbers and Lets Them Set the Price
At its headquarters in San Francisco on Tuesday, Anthropic gave a group of institutional investors its third-quarter financials and asked them, in effect, to name a price. They came back…
ASML Raises Its Outlook and Says Its Own Factories Can’t Keep Up
Christophe Fouquet runs the company that makes the machines that make advanced chips, and on Wednesday he told investors that his customers have started asking about delivery slots for 2029…
SpaceX Agrees to Testify in New York, Weeks After Skipping a Hearing
The seat reserved for SpaceXAI at New York’s City Council stayed empty on Oct. 5, while executives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta answered questions under oath for nearly ten…
