Apple Accuses OpenAI of Destroying Evidence in Trade-Secret Case
In a court filing submitted on August 31, Apple told a federal court that OpenAI had “actively destroyed key evidence” and that Chang Liu, a former iPhone engineer who moved…
SoftBank’s SB Energy Files for IPO, Targeting $7 Billion Raise
SB Energy, the data center and energy infrastructure company controlled by SoftBank, filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on September 1, aiming to…
Google Signs Record 396-Megawatt Geothermal Deal With Fervo
On September 1, Fervo Energy and Google announced a 396-megawatt geothermal power agreement, the largest single geothermal contract either company has signed. The 15-year deal covers power from a project…
AI’s Move From Chatbot to Operator Puts Productivity Claims to Work
Inside a European financial institution, a cluster of software agents now spends its working hours simulating the institution’s entire decision structure. Each agent competes with the others, filtering noise and…
SB Energy Dangles $5.5 Billion in Warrants to Keep OpenAI as a Tenant
The filing reads less like an IPO prospectus and more like a courtship document. In the draft registration statement SB Energy submitted for its planned stock market debut, the SoftBank-owned…
HBM Spot Prices Hit Five Times Contract Levels as AI Demand Surges
In the memory market’s spot trade, where chips are bought for immediate delivery at whatever the market will bear, the price of HBM has gone vertical. Korea Economic Daily reported…
TSMC Bets Silicon Photonics Will Carry AI Chips Past Electrical Limits
The chips are getting faster. The wires between them are not. That is the problem TSMC expects silicon photonics to solve, and the company says the technology will start accelerating…
SpaceX Launches NASA’s Roman Telescope on Falcon Heavy
The Falcon Heavy lifted off at 7:26 a.m. Eastern time from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, carrying a telescope built to survey the universe at a scale…
SpaceX Builds Turbine Foundry in Texas to Make Its Own Power Gear
In Bastrop, a town east of Austin known for a SpaceX factory that stamps out rocket parts, the company is planning something new: a foundry to cast the blades and…
OpenAI, Microsoft and 116 Organizations Warn of Imminent AI Cyberattacks
OpenAI published an open letter on Aug. 28 calling for stronger global cyber defenses, signed by 116 organizations including Anthropic, AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Oracle. The letter warns that…
