Anthropic Says It Will Remove Hidden Checks Targeting Chinese Users in Claude Code
The discovery began, as these things often do, with a curious developer taking a tool apart. A user who reverse-engineered Claude Code, Anthropic’s programming assistant, found that since April the…
KKR and SK Group Form South Korea’s Largest Renewable Energy Platform
The deal, announced on July 1, pairs one of the world’s biggest private-equity firms with one of South Korea’s largest conglomerates in a bet that the country’s energy future belongs…
SoftBank Restarts $10 Billion Loan Talks, Offering Guarantee on OpenAI Stake
SoftBank Group has resumed negotiations with a consortium of banks over a $10 billion margin loan, this time with a concession designed to address the lenders’ concerns: the company is…
SpaceX Denies Building an AI Phone, and Qualcomm Shares Feel the Whiplash
The report appeared on Tuesday, and within hours it was moving markets: SpaceX, preparing for its new life as a public company, had reportedly shown some investors a prototype of…
Meta Prepares to Sell Excess AI Computing Power to Outside Customers
The plan, according to people familiar with it, has been taking shape inside Meta for months: sell access to the company’s AI computing capacity and models to external customers, entering…
Anthropic Restores Fable 5 Access After Weeks of Talks With Washington
The model is back online, and the terms are stricter. Anthropic this week restored access to Fable 5, its most capable artificial-intelligence model, which had been shut down after U.S.…
Asia’s Chip Stocks Sink as KOSPI Falls Nearly 8% in Broad AI Selloff
The selling began in Seoul and spread across the region: by the close of trading on Thursday, South Korea’s KOSPI had fallen nearly 8%, its worst single-day loss in years,…
AWS Raises GPU Instance Prices 20%, Passing AI Compute Costs to Customers
The price change took effect on July 1, and it was the first of its kind in the cloud industry: Amazon Web Services raised the prices of its GPU instances…
AMD Deploys Photonic AI Networking in First Commercial Rollout
The announcement, made this week, describes a technology that has been discussed in data-center circles for years and demonstrated in laboratories for almost as long: replacing the electrical signals that…
Broadcom’s Custom-Chip Rise Tests Nvidia’s Grip on the AI Market
The analysis, published by industry researchers this week, lays out a shift that has been building quietly for two years: Broadcom, long known as a maker of networking chips and…
