Anthropic Buys the Company That Kept Data Encrypted While It Was Used
The company being acquired announced the deal first. Opaque Systems, a confidential computing startup spun out of a Berkeley research lab, posted a farewell note on its website on October…
Amazon Buys the Output of a Nuclear Plant That Has Not Been Built
The site is a few miles from Terre Haute, Indiana, on the grounds of a coal plant that has been demolished. What is planned there is 960 megawatts of nuclear…
Amazon Puts €16 Billion Into Germany in a Single Year
The number announced in Berlin on October 20 was more than 16 billion euros, about 18 billion dollars, and the detail that mattered was buried in the qualifier: this is…
Anthropic Weighs a Second Nscale Contract as Its First Campus Loses a Tenant
The talks cover a commitment in the range of 45 billion dollars, according to accounts from Bloomberg and Reuters published within hours of each other on the evening of October…
Nvidia Simulates a Quantum Computer Too Large to Build
The machine hall at Forschungszentrum Jülich, west of Cologne, holds Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, a system called JUPITER built around 5,884 nodes of Nvidia’s Grace Hopper superchips. On October 19…
Blackstone Closes an $8.7 Billion Energy Fund While Others Wait
Blackstone told investors on October 19 that its fifth energy transition fund had closed at 8.7 billion dollars, hitting its hard cap and finishing more than 50 percent above the…
Amazon Pays for the Racks Before the Power Arrives
The email arrived in August, according to a report in Business Insider on October 19, and it described a process with an unremarkable name: early rack receipt. Under the arrangement,…
A Security Update That Stops the Mail
The first reports came from administrators who had done what they were told to do. They installed the October security updates for Windows Server on October 13, the monthly patch…
JPMorgan’s Defense Fund Is Moving Faster Than Its Own Timetable
The factory floor in Southern California runs about ten robots for every person on it, by its founder’s account, machining parts for aircraft, ships and weapons. Hadrian, the company that…
Nvidia Sells Industrial AI to the Country That Builds the Machines
The venue was Kraftwerk, a former power station in Berlin whose turbine hall now holds conferences, and the two men on stage had spent a decade talking past each other’s…
