Anthropic Disconnects Its Two Strongest Models After U.S. Export Order
The order arrived at 5:21 p.m. on a Friday, stamped with a national-security authorization, and it left Anthropic with little choice. On June 12, the U.S. government directed the AI…
Morgan Stanley Says Wall Street Is Missing Meta’s AI Moat
Brian Nowak has covered Meta Platforms since it was still called Facebook. On June 6, the Morgan Stanley analyst went back to his clients with a message he has delivered…
Oracle Completes 30,000 Layoffs, Its Largest Cut Ever
By Monday, the last of the termination notices had gone out, and Oracle’s payroll was 30,000 names lighter. The company met its June 15 deadline for a reduction of about…
AI Now Accounts for a Record Share of U.S. Job Cuts, Data Show
The tally kept by Challenger, Gray & Christmas now has a category that its founder could not have imagined when the firm started tracking layoffs in 1993: artificial intelligence. Through…
Google Appeals German Ruling That Put AI Search on the Hook
The May ruling from a Munich court was blunt, and the sentence has been quoted across the industry ever since: “Nobody needs AI to search the internet.” Google filed its…
SpaceX’s Rise Rewrites the Alphabet of Big Tech
The ticker tape says it plainly: SpaceX, a company whose shares began trading days ago, now sits among the six most valuable companies in the United States. With a market…
History’s Biggest IPO Wave Carries a Familiar Warning
SpaceX’s record listing is done. Two more stand behind it in the queue, and the combined scale has no precedent. OpenAI is aiming at a $1 trillion valuation, and Anthropic…
U.K. and Japan Sign $24 Billion Technology Pact
The signing table was set in London, and the two prime ministers put their names to an agreement worth more than £18 billion, or about $24 billion, covering artificial-intelligence research,…
Musk Points to Tesla’s Next Chip as Robotaxi Questions Mount
The update arrived as a post on X, in the clipped language Mr. Musk uses for engineering status reports. Tesla’s AI6 chip, he said, is moving through engineering review and…
Amazon CEO’s Washington Meetings Preceded Order to Disable Anthropic Models
The conversations took place in Washington this week, and their consequences reached the artificial-intelligence industry within days. Andy Jassy, Amazon’s chief executive, told senior officials in the Trump administration that…
