OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Images 2.5 to Every User
The images arrived without much ceremony. On September 9, OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5, its newest image generation model, and made it available to every ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex…
SpaceX Set to Gain Weight in Nasdaq 100 Rebalance
SpaceX’s stock has been trading in a narrow band, but the quiet is unlikely to last. When the Nasdaq 100 index completes its quarterly rebalance later this month, the rocket…
Cognition Raises $2 Billion as Coding Agents Go Mainstream
Scott Wu built his company on a simple claim: a software engineer that never stops. On September 8, Cognition AI said it had raised $2 billion in a Series E…
Stoke Space Raises $1 Billion to Chase a Reusability Feat No Rocket Has Achieved
The company’s pitch to investors has been the same since its founding: build a rocket where everything comes back. On Tuesday Stoke Space announced the funding to keep pursuing that…
A German Startup Reaches Orbit From European Soil
The sky above Andøya was still light when the rocket climbed off the pad. Spectrum, built by the German startup Isar Aerospace, lifted off from the Andøya Spaceport in northern…
OpenAI Fills In the Spec Sheet for GPT-6 Astra
The storefront for OpenAI’s newest flagship model gained some weight over the weekend. The company updated its product page for GPT-6 Astra with benchmark tables, descriptions of enterprise and safety…
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 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…
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.…
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…
