A $3,499 Computer With No Screen, Built for an Agent Instead of a Person
Ghost, a startup in San Francisco, has come out of stealth with a personal computer that has no display and no keyboard. The box is called Core, it sells for…
One Map of Silicon Valley’s Robot Business, and What It Leaves Out
The post that circulated on X this month did what industry diagrams usually do. It turned a sprawling supply chain into a single frame and gave every player a job.…
Anthropic Pulls the Live Web Out of Its Claude Tests
Claude Haiku 4.5 was set to work on example tasks drawn at random from the open web. It reached a page that described an unsolved homicide and carried a public…
Microsoft Puts Its Own Silicon at the Center of Azure
For four years Microsoft has run the largest rental business in computing on accelerators designed by Nvidia. On Monday it told customers and rivals where it intends to stand in…
IMF Sees a Bond Market With Little Room for Error
The warning came from Bangkok, where more than 18,000 delegates had gathered for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and it was aimed at…
ChatGPT and Grok Reach the Military’s AI Platform, Claude Stays Off
The Department of War picked two more chatbots for its internal AI platform on October 12. The one it left out is the one it has been arguing with. ChatGPT…
Bain’s Bridge Data Centres Moves Toward a $6.6 Billion Loan
The largest borrower in Asia’s data center build-out is not a technology company. It is a private equity firm’s real estate arm. Bridge Data Centres, owned by Bain Capital, is…
White House Reopens Model Access for UK Safety Institute
For 17 days, the British government’s AI testing body could not see the technology it exists to study. The White House restored the UK AI Safety Institute’s access to unreleased…
Microsoft Turns the Office Suite Inside Out
For years, Microsoft’s pitch for Copilot was simple: the assistant lived inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint, waiting in the margin of whatever document you had open. This month the company…
A Handwritten Note and the Fight Over America’s Data Centers
The note turned up at a construction site for an Amazon data center in Manassas, Virginia, written by hand and dated April 22. A dozen pipe bombs, it said, were…
