OpenAI Quietly Revises GPT-6 Astra Scores After Launch
When OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on Sept. 3, the launch post carried the usual furniture of a modern model debut: coding results, speed comparisons and a figure for how often…
Samsung Electronics Union Plans Protests at Chairman’s Home Over Pay Gap
Samsung Electronics has settled its labor disputes at factory gates and in meeting rooms at its campus south of Seoul. The next fight is scheduled for a different address: the…
OpenAI Sets a Higher API Price for GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI’s newest flagship model does more than its predecessor. It also costs more. The company said it is pricing GPT-6 Astra’s application-programming interface at $10 per million input tokens and…
Nvidia’s $99 Billion Year of Writing Checks to the Companies It Sells To
The most active investor in the AI industry is not a venture firm, a sovereign wealth fund or a hedge fund. It is the company that makes the chips. Nvidia…
AMD Pushes a Desktop Workstation Built to Run a Trillion-Parameter Model
The machines that train the largest AI models fill buildings, consume megawatts and cost more than most companies’ annual budgets. AMD’s newest product is designed to fit under a desk.…
Susquehanna’s Hong Kong Expansion: Triple the Space, and the Hiring to Fill It
Susquehanna International Group has spent the past few weeks touring office towers in Hong Kong’s Central district, and the space on its shortlist would roughly triple its presence in the…
Snowflake’s AI Assistants Accelerate Growth, and the Stock Jumps 23%
On an earnings call full of talk about models and agents, the number that moved Snowflake’s stock was a count of customer accounts. The company said its AI coding assistant,…
Nscale Discloses $103 Billion in Contracted Revenue, With an IPO Possible This Month
Nscale, the British cloud-computing provider backed by Nvidia, has told prospective investors that its contracted revenue has grown to about $103 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, and…
Google’s Ad-Tech Business Survives, and the Remedy Is Under Seal
Judge Leonie Brinkema gave Google what it wanted, and something it will have to live with. On Wednesday, the federal judge in Virginia ruled that Google can keep its advertising-technology…
Tesla’s Cybercab Fleet Rolls Out on Austin Streets
The first videos appeared online Wednesday evening, shot by drivers and pedestrians who could not quite believe what they were seeing: two-seat cars moving through Austin traffic with no steering…
