Sanders and Trump Split Over What to Do About Superintelligence
On September 23, Washington offered two answers to the same question, whether and how to rein in artificial intelligence, and they pointed in opposite directions. In the Senate, Bernie Sanders…
Microsoft Puts Quantum Hardware Within Washington’s Reach
Microsoft’s quantum ambitions have been described in decades, not quarters. On September 23, the company gave them a street address, opening a quantum research center in Maryland, minutes from Washington,…
Micron’s Taoyuan Workers Move Toward a Strike Vote
For months, the people who run some of the world’s most valuable memory-chip plants have watched their company post record margins. On September 23, the union at Micron’s Taoyuan plant…
Palantir’s Karp Says OpenAI May Never Reach the Public Market
Alex Karp has spent two decades selling software to governments that guard their secrets. On September 17 he told CNBC that the frontier AI labs may be carrying too much…
Oracle Cuts Jobs at the Texas Site It Shows Off as Its AI Future
Abilene, Texas, is where Oracle points when investors ask whether its partnership with OpenAI is real. Last week it was also where Oracle cut jobs. The company’s latest round of…
Nvidia Plants a Medical-Research Outpost in Israel
Nvidia’s chips run the data centers that train the world’s largest models. On September 23 the company said it wants those same systems to help discover drugs. The chipmaker announced…
Apple Tests a Screenless Fitness Band to Take On Whoop
Apple built the device that put a screen on tens of millions of wrists. Now it is weighing whether a growing set of customers would rather have no screen at…
Qualcomm Buys the Software That Moves a Robot’s Arm
Qualcomm spent Tuesday selling investors on a phone chip that can run an AI agent without a cloud. On Wednesday it bought a company that teaches robots how to move,…
Nscale’s $35 Billion Listing Rests on a Few Buyers
The numbers that will greet investors in Nscale’s offering documents are hard to hold together at once: roughly $103 billion in signed customer contracts, and $33 million in revenue last…
OpenAI Invites Safety Auditors In Earlier
The people who judge whether a new AI model is safe have traditionally arrived late, after the model was finished and the lab had already decided what to show them.…
