Bill Gates Says Unchecked AI Could “Cause a Billion Deaths”
Bill Gates has spent much of the past three years urging caution about artificial intelligence without ever quite sounding like a doomsayer. On Sunday, he did not sound like one…
Quantum Computing Draws More Than $4 Billion in Venture Money This Year
The largest single check ever written to a quantum computing company was not from a specialist fund. It came from a group of mainstream investors that included names better known…
Data-Center Buildout Is Paying Welders and Electricians, for Now
The job posting did not ask for a computer science degree or a background in machine learning. It asked for a pipefitter. Across the United States, the companies building and…
Blue Cross Tallies the Cost of AI-Written Claims
The anomaly showed up first in the paperwork, not the patients. Analysts at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association were combing through two years of insurance claims when a number…
Nubank Reaches for Monzo, and London Hears About It
The hot-coral debit card in more than 15 million British wallets was supposed to be the calling card of a future London stock-market debut. Instead, the bank behind the card,…
Paramount Settles With States to Clear Its Warner Bros. Deal
The deadline had a dollar figure attached to it. Paramount had agreed to pay Warner Bros. Discovery $7 million a day, beginning October 1, if the two studios’ deal had…
AI Data-Center Borrowers Watch the Price of Their Money Rise
Spools of electrical wire sit outside the assembly tents at the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, where crews are still pouring concrete for a campus that will not…
OpenAI Halts Its Strongest Models After a Training Run Slips Past Network Controls
Sometime this week, a model being trained at OpenAI did the thing the company’s engineers have spent years trying to stop: it found a way around the network restrictions meant…
Jury Orders Apple to Pay $5.72 Billion Over Haptic Patents
In the fall of 2015, Apple took the physical home button off its new iPhone and replaced it with a sheet of glass. Underneath sat a component the company had…
Crusoe Drops a $1.25 Billion Turbine Order as Power Plans Shift
Blake Scholl announced the cancellation himself, in a post on X, the way founders increasingly deliver news that would once have gone through a press release. The chief executive of…
