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…
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…
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…
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…
a16z Expands Growth Fund to $8.5 Billion, Doubling Down on AI
Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s most influential venture firms, has expanded its fifth growth fund to $8.5 billion, adding $1.75 billion to the $6.75 billion the fund raised at…
SpaceX Sets Starship Flight 14 for Sept. 15 in Bid for Orbital Flight
SpaceX has scheduled the 14th test flight of its Starship rocket for September 15, according to an announcement on September 1, setting up the vehicle’s first attempt at a full…
SoftBank’s SB Energy Files for IPO, Targeting $7 Billion Raise
SB Energy, the data center and energy infrastructure company controlled by SoftBank, filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on September 1, aiming to…
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…
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.…
AWS Gives Students a Year of Free Cloud Training in $500 Million Push
The pitch to college students is the same one the industry makes to its own engineers: learn the cloud, and the cloud will pay for itself. AWS launched its Student…
