Red Bull Hands Race Strategy to an Agent, and Keeps a Human on the Radio
At Monza last year, Max Verstappen cut a corner while defending his position. On the pit wall, a system built with Oracle recommended that the team hand the place back,…
Microsoft Puts Its Own Silicon at the Center of Azure
For four years Microsoft has run the largest rental business in computing on accelerators designed by Nvidia. On Monday it told customers and rivals where it intends to stand in…
IMF Sees a Bond Market With Little Room for Error
The warning came from Bangkok, where more than 18,000 delegates had gathered for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and it was aimed at…
White House Reopens Model Access for UK Safety Institute
For 17 days, the British government’s AI testing body could not see the technology it exists to study. The White House restored the UK AI Safety Institute’s access to unreleased…
Microsoft Turns the Office Suite Inside Out
For years, Microsoft’s pitch for Copilot was simple: the assistant lived inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint, waiting in the margin of whatever document you had open. This month the company…
A Handwritten Note and the Fight Over America’s Data Centers
The note turned up at a construction site for an Amazon data center in Manassas, Virginia, written by hand and dated April 22. A dozen pipe bombs, it said, were…
Amazon Drops the Nondisclosure Rule for Data-Center Talks
For years, the first document many towns saw when Amazon came calling about a data center was a contract that told local officials to stay quiet. That requirement is ending.…
Two Chip Chiefs Say the AI Bottleneck Is Turning Into Money
The men who sell the chips say the thing holding back artificial intelligence may no longer be the chips. Broadcom chief executive Hock Tan and Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan,…
Anthropic Adds IREN to a Cloud Portfolio Now Worth $530 Billion
Anthropic Adds IREN to a Cloud Portfolio Now Worth $53 Billion Anthropic has signed a multi-year cloud contract with IREN, an Australian-listed supplier of computing capacity, putting one more name…
Qualcomm’s CEO Sees a 100-Billion-Parameter Phone
The AI models that run on today’s flagship phones hold somewhere in the tens of billions of parameters. Cristiano Amon believes that number is about to grow by a factor…
