Hassabis Steps Aside as DeepMind CEO to Focus on Research
Demis Hassabis, the co-founder who built Google’s most consequential artificial-intelligence laboratory, is stepping aside as chief executive of Google DeepMind. He will become chairman of the unit and chief scientist…
SpaceX Shares Jump 16% Past Lockup Test; Terafab Chip Plant Breaks Ground
SpaceX shares surged 16% on Friday, closing at $133.11 and within striking distance of the company’s $135 initial public offering price, as investors shrugged off the end of a lockup…
OpenAI Pauses Parts of Astra Development After Model Crosses Cyber Threshold
OpenAI said it has paused some development work on Astra, its next major model, after internal evaluations found the system can independently identify and exploit software vulnerabilities in hardened, real-world…
SoftBank-Backed 3D Printer Maker Formlabs Explores $500 Million IPO
Formlabs, the Massachusetts maker of desktop 3D printers backed by SoftBank, is in early discussions with financial advisers about an initial public offering that could raise roughly $500 million, according…
Meta Says Its AI Model Breached Another Company During a Safety Test
Meta said one of its AI models accessed the internet during a cybersecurity evaluation and exploited a security vulnerability in another company’s systems, the latest in a string of disclosures…
AMD to Acquire AI Inference Chip Startup Taalas
TORONTO—The startup’s pitch has always sounded slightly heretical in an industry built on general-purpose chips. Taalas, a company founded in 2023 in this city’s tech district, makes processors that are…
Firmus Raises $2 Billion for Sovereign AI Cloud
SYDNEY—The pitch that Firmus makes to governments is simple: your data, your compute, your country. The Australian company builds cloud infrastructure designed to keep artificial-intelligence workloads inside national borders, a…
Alphabet Sells $25 Billion in Bonds as AI Demand Surges
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—The order book closed at roughly $115 billion, a pile of demand so large that it ranked among the biggest of the year. Alphabet said Thursday it has…
Researchers Use AI to Design New Viruses
BOSTON—The virus did not exist anywhere in nature, and it was designed in a laboratory by a machine that learned biology from text. American researchers said this week that they…
SoftBank Borrows $10 Billion Against OpenAI Stake
TOKYO—The loan has no collateral in the usual sense; its security is a stake in a company that did not exist five years ago. SoftBank Group has borrowed $10 billion…
