US Data Center Backlash Goes National With Protests in 42 States
Opponents of the AI data center boom held 142 protests across 42 states, the first nationwide backlash against a buildout that crosses political lines and worries...
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Anthropic Lines Up Investor Meetings for an October IPO
Anthropic is scheduling investor meetings ahead of a potential IPO as soon as October, a move that could take the Claude maker public before rival OpenAI.
OpenAI’s First Device Is a Screenless AI Companion Speaker
OpenAI's first hardware, reportedly designed with Jony Ive, is a portable, screenless smart speaker built as a proactive AI companion that learns its owner and moves...
IBM Shares Plunge 23% After Warning of a Quarterly Earnings Miss
IBM shares sank about 23% after it warned that preliminary second-quarter results fell short, as clients diverted spending toward memory and servers ahead of price increases.
Anthropic Extends Fable 5 Access Again as OpenAI Lifts Limits
Anthropic extended free Claude Fable 5 access to July 19, its second extension in a week, as OpenAI removed usage caps and made GPT-5.6 Sol cheaper...
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, a GPT-5.6 agent that pulls context from a user's apps to produce finished docs, slides and sites, as it merges Codex into...
Meta to Start Making Its Iris AI Chip in September, Memo Shows
Meta plans to begin manufacturing its in-house Iris AI chip in September as it aims to double computing capacity to 14 gigawatts next year and cut...
Apple Commits Over $30 Billion to Broadcom for US-Made Chips
Apple expanded its partnership with Broadcom in a multi-year deal worth more than $30 billion, its largest US manufacturing commitment, to produce over 15 billion American-made...
Musk’s xAI Rebrands to SpaceXAI, Completing SpaceX Merger
Elon Musk's xAI has rebranded to SpaceXAI, folding its Grok chatbot and X into SpaceX and signaling that AI, not rockets, is now central to the...
Microsoft Cuts 4,800 Jobs in Latest AI-Era Layoff Round
Microsoft cut about 4,800 jobs, roughly 2.1% of its workforce, hitting Xbox and commercial sales hardest, the latest tech layoffs to intensify fears about AI and...
Anthropic Details Fable 5 Cyber Safeguards, Proposes Jailbreak Scale
Anthropic published the cybersecurity rules behind its redeployed Claude Fable 5 model and proposed an industry framework for scoring how dangerous an AI jailbreak is.
OpenAI’s First Hardware Is Codex Micro, a Macro Pad for Coders
OpenAI teased its first branded hardware, Codex Micro, a programmable macro pad built with Work Louder to give developers physical shortcuts for its Codex coding agent,...