The company pretty much invented the hardware superstore when it began in 1978, simply by being so big. It inflated the neighborhood tool shop into a whole city of lumber, hammers, caulk, power saws, and big rolls of wire. I would know I’m in a Home Depot blindfolded because of a distinct quality to the
Anthropic devoted nearly a third of its hotly anticipated IPO prospectus to risk factors, according to the Financial Times, which says it has reviewed the filing in recent days. The filing details specific, worrisome behaviors that Anthropic says its models have already shown or could show, including attempts to “resist shutdown,” to “conceal or manipulate
Nvidia, the dominant supplier of AI-computing infrastructure, authorized a record $150 billion stock buyback on Monday, bringing its total repurchase capacity to $235 billion through fiscal year 2028, the largest in corporate history. The move comes as the AI boom faces a harsh reality: Nvidia, the giant that designs the high-performance chips, GPUs, servers and
AMD announced today that it’s acquiring World Labs, an AI research lab co-founded by the prominent researcher Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion. World Labs launched in 2024 and was valued at $1 billion in a matter of months. The startup launched its first commercial product, a world generation model
The Headphone (1) Pro is Nothing’s newest pair of cans, the company announced on Monday at an evening event in New York City. The headphones resemble Nothing’s first-ever over-ear headphones that debuted last summer, though the design and fit have been refined. The key change, though, is audio quality. Instead of a single dynamic driver
OpenAI had planned to release yet another AI model next month, but has decided to nix the release over safety concerns. The Wall Street Journal reports that Astra 6.1 was scheduled to be released as soon as within the next few days. However, the model “showed higher levels of deception” than previous models and exhibited
