Anthropic Eyes Microsoft’s Chips to Ease Its Compute Crunch
Anthropic, the lab behind the Claude models, is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft’s in-house AI chips, according to two people who spoke with executives involved in the…
Xiaomi’s Cheaper YU7 Takes Aim at Tesla’s Model Y
Lei Jun was unusually direct for a launch event. The Xiaomi founder and chief executive acknowledged on stage Thursday evening that his company’s YU7 electric SUV had not been cheap…
Google’s Glasses Strategy: Let the Fashion Brands Lead
The first time Google made smart glasses, it put a screen in front of the wearer’s eye and called it a computer. The product failed, and the lesson the company…
SpaceX Files Reveal a 10-Gigawatt Solar Factory in Texas
The permit applications landed in Bastrop County’s records office weeks before anyone noticed them, and they describe something no rocket company has built before: a solar manufacturing plant with 10…
AMD Ships Its First 2-Nanometer Server Chip, Made by TSMC
The chip that will power the next generation of cloud servers went into mass production this week in Taiwan. AMD said Thursday that its next-generation EPYC processor, code-named Venice, has…
Starship V3’s First Flight Stalls on a Stuck Hydraulic Pin
The countdown reached the final minutes and then stopped. SpaceX’s Starship V3, the largest rocket the company has ever rolled to a pad, was scheduled for its first flight Thursday…
Dell’s AI Server Line Adds 1,000 Customers in a Quarter
Michael Dell has a favorite number these days: 5,000. The Dell Technologies founder and chief executive said in an interview on Monday that the company’s AI Factory line of servers…
Malta Offers Every Citizen a Free Year of ChatGPT Plus
VALETTA, Malta — A Mediterranean island of roughly 500,000 people is about to become the first country where nearly every adult holds a premium AI subscription, paid for by the…
Open-Source ‘Paper OS’ Draws 6,400 Stars as Research Goes Automated
The installation takes two lines. A researcher pastes them into a terminal, and Anthropic’s Claude Code becomes a system that can search the literature, draft sections, check citations, run a…
SpaceX Prepares for Nasdaq Debut in What Could Be the Largest IPO in History
The plan has a code name inside SpaceX: “Project Apex.” Under it, the company filed confidentially with the SEC in early April, and reports this week point to pricing as…
