Meta Hires a Database Chief to Run Its Push Into Business Software
When Meta went looking for someone to run its new enterprise AI business, it did not pick a research scientist. It picked Chirantan “CJ” Desai, the chief executive of the…
Tech Chiefs Dine at the White House as Washington Reopens the AI Question
The guest list was the headline. On September 29, Donald Trump sat down at the White House with Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Sundar Pichai of Google,…
Anthropic Puts Top-Tier Guardrails on a Cheaper Sonnet
Anthropic’s announcement for Sonnet 5.5, posted on September 28, opened with a price list rather than a benchmark chart: $2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens, and…
Samsung Spreads $1 Billion Across KKR’s Helix Data-Center Venture
Adam Selipsky spent three years running Amazon Web Services before leaving in 2024. On September 29, the chief executive of Helix Digital Infrastructure called a new investor’s money a vote…
Microsoft Says Surface Won’t Chase Apple’s Cheap MacBook
Brett Ostrum fielded the question the way an executive does when the answer was decided long before the question was asked. Would Microsoft build a cheap Surface laptop to answer…
NASA Keeps Boeing’s Starliner in the Fleet, but Not for Astronauts
The announcement was tucked inside the kind of statement NASA issues when it wants a hard decision to read as routine. On September 28, the agency said it would keep…
Meta’s Muse Agent Gave a Seller’s Address to a Stranger. The Seller Found Out When the Buyer Arrived.
Matt Robb let Meta’s new AI agent run his Facebook Marketplace listing for a day. The item was a Logitech MX Keys Mini keyboard. By that evening, the agent had…
SpaceX Aims to Put Starship in Orbit for the First Time
For more than three years, SpaceX has launched Starship, the largest rocket ever built, thirteen times from its Texas coast launch site, and every one of those flights ended short…
Nvidia’s Answer to Rogue AI Agents: a Sandbox and a Watchdog
Nvidia’s pitch for the new wave of AI agents is not another model. It is a pair of machines meant to stand between an agent and the damage it can…
Three AI Rivals Agree on a Name for a Safety Standards Body
Google, OpenAI and Anthropic compete for the same engineers, the same data centers, and the same customers. On the question of how their frontier models should be policed, the three…
