Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 on a Day of Two Wins
The announcement hit the top of Hacker News within hours, drawing more than 1,500 points and over 1,000 comments, the kind of reception developers reserve for releases that change how…
SEC Moves to Lure Companies Back to Public Markets
The number of publicly traded companies in the United States has fallen by roughly half since the mid-1990s, from more than 8,000 to about 4,000 today. Regulators have blamed the…
Dell’s AI Server Surge Lifts Shares Nearly 40%
Michael Dell spent the 1990s convincing corporate buyers that cheap, standardized servers could replace mainframes. The sequel to that story played out after the closing bell Thursday, when Dell Technologies…
Anthropic’s $65 Billion Raise Pushes It Past OpenAI in AI’s Valuation Race
The chipmakers who supply the memory inside artificial-intelligence data centers rarely write checks to software startups. This week, three of the world’s largest memory makers made an exception. Micron Technology,…
Microsoft Looks to Nvidia Silicon to Reboot Its Surface Line
The last time Microsoft put an Nvidia chip inside a Surface, the result was the Surface RT, a 2012 tablet that sold so poorly the company wrote off nearly $1…
EU Fines Temu €200 Million Under Digital Services Act
Brussels delivered its verdict Thursday morning: Temu, the Chinese e-commerce giant that has upended European retail with ultra-cheap goods, will pay €200 million — about $232 million — for failing…
Meta Cuts 1,400 Seattle Jobs as Zuckerberg’s Yacht Docks
The 387-foot yacht passed through Seattle’s Ballard Locks on Tuesday evening, and a crowd gathered along the walkway to watch. Some booed. One heckler shouted at the crew to pay…
DuckDuckGo Traffic Jumps as Google Doubles Down on AI Search
Sundar Pichai said last week that people love AI Mode. The numbers from DuckDuckGo suggest a sizable minority disagrees. Between May 20 and May 25, visits to DuckDuckGo’s AI-free search…
Snowflake Commits $6 Billion to AWS in AI Expansion
Snowflake’s founders built the company on Amazon Web Services in 2015, and on Wednesday the data-cloud company deepened that bet by an order of magnitude. Snowflake said it signed a…
HP’s Profit Climbs as AI PCs Lift Sales
The call came on a Wednesday afternoon, and the interim chief executive led with the word that has become HP’s most important sales pitch: AI. Bruce Broussard, who is running…
