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…
LG Electronics Joins Nvidia’s Partner Network to Sell Cooling
For most of its history, LG Electronics sold refrigerators, televisions and washing machines. The announcement it made on September 27 was about something far less visible to consumers: the liquid…
Quantum Computing Draws More Than $4 Billion in Venture Money This Year
The largest single check ever written to a quantum computing company was not from a specialist fund. It came from a group of mainstream investors that included names better known…
Nubank Reaches for Monzo, and London Hears About It
The hot-coral debit card in more than 15 million British wallets was supposed to be the calling card of a future London stock-market debut. Instead, the bank behind the card,…
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…
AI Data-Center Borrowers Watch the Price of Their Money Rise
Spools of electrical wire sit outside the assembly tents at the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, where crews are still pouring concrete for a campus that will not…
OpenAI Halts Its Strongest Models After a Training Run Slips Past Network Controls
Sometime this week, a model being trained at OpenAI did the thing the company’s engineers have spent years trying to stop: it found a way around the network restrictions meant…
Andreessen Horowitz Starts a College With 50 Seats and No Diplomas
The course catalog reads like a guest list at a technology conference. Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Fei-Fei Li, Mira Murati and Travis Kalanick appear on the same faculty…
SoftBank Prices $11.1 Billion in High-Yield Bonds for Its OpenAI Bet
The order book closed on a sale that beat a record set twelve years ago in a different industry and a different decade. SoftBank Group completed an $11.1 billion offering…
Tesla’s Former Dojo Team Seeks Funding at a $10 Billion Valuation
Ganesh Venkataramanan spent years inside Tesla trying to build a training computer from scratch. A year after leaving, he is raising money against a version of the same idea, and…
