Zoox Brings Its Robotaxi to the Las Vegas Airport Curb
A traveler landing at Harry Reid International Airport now has an option that did not exist three weeks ago: a driverless car waiting near baggage claim. Zoox, the autonomous-driving company…
Anthropic’s Sprint to an IPO, and the Record It Wants to Break
When Anthropic’s chief financial officer sat down with prospective investors in August, the questions were not about whether the company would go public. They were about how big the offering…
SpaceX Puts Starlink Veteran in Charge of AI Data Centers
SpaceX has put Michael Nicolls, a longtime Starlink executive, in charge of its AI data-center operations after a string of departures among the executives who built them, according to people…
Equinix Pushes AI Inference Across Its Data Centers
Equinix said Tuesday it will offer AI inference across its network of 281 data centers in 77 metropolitan areas, pairing NVIDIA’s reference architecture with a platform that serves more than…
iPronics Raises $125 Million for Smaller Optical Switches
iPronics, a Spanish startup that builds optical switches for AI data centers, said Tuesday it raised $125 million in a Series B round led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street…
Musk’s G20 Forecast: AI Outcodes Humans by 2027, Then Meets a Power Gap
Elon Musk brought a calendar to the Group of 20. Appearing at the summit this week, the founder of SpaceX and one of the artificial-intelligence industry’s most consequential financiers delivered…
Meta’s New Transcription Service Prices a Fifth of Google’s
For a business that transcribes call-center audio all day, the math is easy to do. An hour of recorded conversation processed by Meta’s new speech service costs 18 cents. The…
Ternus Teases ‘Huge’ Apple Launch in First Memo as CEO
John Ternus spent his first day as Apple’s chief executive telling employees to brace for next week. In an all-hands memo on Sept. 1, the new CEO promised a “huge…
Apple’s Schiller Steps Back From App Store and Product Events
For three decades, Phil Schiller has been the face of Apple’s biggest moments, the executive who introduced the iPhone, the iPad and, more recently, the company’s lineup of AI features.…
Google’s Dreambeans Drops Subscription, Opens Free Testing
Google’s AI news app Dreambeans is giving up its subscription model and opening free testing, the company said in a product announcement. The app, which Google has described as a…
