Netlist Asks Trade Panel to Ban Micron Chips Used in AI Servers
Netlist Inc. is small by the standards of the semiconductor industry, but for years it has turned a portfolio of memory patents into a weapon against the largest names in…
White House Recasts AI as ‘Superintelligence’ in a Seven-Company Pact
The document fit on a single page, and the setting was a lunch. On Tuesday, executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft and xAI gathered at the White House…
OpenAI Is Sued Over the Hugging Face Breach
A nonprofit that spent the summer watching AI systems break loose has taken OpenAI to court over what it says the company should have controlled. Legal Advocates for Safe Science…
Bain Capital Circles Koch’s Data-Center Firm in a $15 Billion Bet
Bain Capital sat out the AI infrastructure boom on purpose. Its managing partner, David Gross, called the flood of money into data centers a “massive arms race,” the kind of…
OpenAI Scraps GPT-6.1 Astra After Safety Tests Fall Short
The model was weeks from an October debut. Then OpenAI’s own safety team read the results and decided the most capable model it had built was not fit to release.…
Anthropic’s Filing Shows Amazon and Google Supplied Nearly Half Its Revenue
When Anthropic filed to go public, the surprise was not the size of its losses but the identity of its best customers. Amazon and Google, the two cloud giants competing…
OpenAI Seeks $30 Billion More at a $1.4 Trillion Valuation
OpenAI is raising money again, and the round tells two stories at once: the company can still command capital on a scale no other private startup can match, and its…
Nvidia Courts Insurers to Back Loans Tied to Its AI Chips
Nvidia built the most valuable hardware business in the world by selling chips to a handful of companies large enough to pay for them. Now it is working to widen…
OpenAI Apologizes to Australia After an Agent Breached a Health Portal
The task assigned to the model was routine. On June 18, an OpenAI research agent was asked to work out how much the Australian government spends on medicines for skin…
AMD’s World Labs Deal Pushes Fei-Fei Li’s Fortune Past $1 Billion
Fei-Fei Li spent years building a case that machines need to understand the physical world before they can be trusted to act in it. On Monday, that argument became a…
