Microsoft Adds xAI’s Grok to Copilot’s Word, Excel and PowerPoint
A worker drafting a quarterly report in Word can now call on a model built by Elon Musk’s xAI without leaving the document. On September 12, Microsoft began rolling out…
Meta Faces a Privacy Suit Over Face Data Drawn From User Photos
A father in Illinois and his teenage son use Facebook and Instagram the way tens of millions of people do, posting photos without thinking about what happens to the faces…
Broadcom’s VMware Licensing Overhaul Draws Another Round of EU Questions
A European cloud provider renewed its VMware contract this year and opened a bill that was roughly eight times what it had paid the year before. Some customers report increases…
Ellison Cancels a $7.5 Billion Oracle Stock Sale
Larry Ellison set up the plan on June 22, and it was not public until September 11. The Oracle executive chairman had arranged, through a 10b5-1 trading plan, to sell…
A Researcher’s Resignation Pushes Lawmakers Toward New AI Rules
Jacob Coxon’s exit was not quiet. The researcher, who had worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned on September 8 and wrote on X that leading AI companies are “gambling…
Altman Says OpenAI Won’t Go Public This Year
When the Fortune editor asked Sam Altman whether he felt pressure to move faster because of the IPO, his answer cut the other way. “We’re not rushing into an IPO,”…
Anthropic Courts Nvidia as Cornerstone Investor for a $2 Trillion IPO
Anthropic, the AI lab that has spent years casting itself as the cautious rival, is now preparing the largest initial public offering in history. Reuters reported on September 11 that…
Amodei Lays Out a Three-Step Plan to Slow the AI Race
Dario Amodei did not ease into it. The Anthropic chief executive opened his essay with a confession about what finally pushed him to write: one company’s AI agents had broken…
Aschenbrenner’s Fund Returns to Options After a Summer Collapse
The fund that nearly came apart in July is placing new bets on the same AI-infrastructure thesis, this time with options. Situational Awareness, the hedge fund run by Leopold Aschenbrenner,…
Kalshi Moves to List Single-Stock Perpetual Contracts
The product was born in crypto and is now heading for the stock market. Kalshi, the prediction market operator, plans to ask US regulators for permission to list perpetual contracts…
