Infineon’s $1.44 Billion Thai Chip Plant Opens This Week
The concrete is poured and the cleanrooms are sealed. On Thursday, the German chipmaker Infineon Technologies will switch on a new semiconductor plant in Thailand, a factory it has spent…
OpenAI’s Agents Hit a UN Data Site With 16,000 Requests
Rowan Howard-Jones noticed the traffic before he understood what it was. The security researcher said that between April and June, automated agents from OpenAI made more than 16,000 scans of…
Anthropic’s Chief Economist Says AI’s Payoff Is Years Away
Peter McIlroy has spent his career explaining that new technology shows up in the productivity numbers later than its backers promise. As chief economist at Anthropic, he now has to…
Nvidia Seeks a Patent for a Chatbot That Tunes Games
Buried in the United States patent office is a document that describes a developer typing a plain question into a chat window and getting back working code. The question might…
Russia Opens a New Front in Ukraine: Data Centers
The drone struck just after noon on Friday, setting part of a business center in central Kyiv ablaze. Firefighters worked through the smoke to reach the upper floors, and when…
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…
Intel Says Its 14A Process Will Land Within 5% of TSMC’s A14
Naga Chandrasekaran chose a phrase that sounds like a promise and reads like a hedge. Speaking with KeyBanc Capital Markets on September 25, Intel’s chief technology and operations officer for…
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…
Tesla’s Robot Output and Europe’s FSD Vote Both Stall
On the production line that used to build the Model S and Model X, Tesla now assembles humanoid robots. The conversion happened last month. Since then, output has run at…
Meta’s Newest Smart Glasses Drop the Camera
The product that drew the most attention at this year’s Meta Connect had no camera at all. Meta used the two-day event on September 23 and 24 to introduce the…
