Coverage of model development, deployment policy, infrastructure economics, and the regulatory fights that will decide who profits and who pays.
Nvidia has invested $3.5 billion in convertible bonds issued by MediaTek, sending shares of the Taiwanese chip company 10% higher and cementing a partnership centered on custom AI chips, data centers, and Nvidia's NVLink Fusion platform.
Sara Montes de Oca · 18 DAYS AGO
Apple has filed what it calls "shocking evidence" in its trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging former employee Chang Liu used a confidential circuit schematic at OpenAI and enlisted a colleague to destroy evidence after learning he was under investigation.
Sara Montes de Oca · 19 DAYS AGO
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence warned in a new report that AI could enable terrorists and adversaries to develop more dangerous weapons, calling current safeguards insufficient ahead of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Marc Sabatini · 19 DAYS AGO
Debian has voted to allow AI-assisted contributions to its Linux distribution, adopting a neutral stance that neither bans nor formally endorses generative AI tools while holding contributors fully responsible for all submitted work.
Sara Montes de Oca · 19 DAYS AGO
The Pentagon has added ChatGPT Mil, a security-hardened version of OpenAI's chatbot, to its GenAI.mil portal, making it available to more than 3 million Department of Defense personnel for controlled, unclassified work.
TechEchelon Staff · 19 DAYS AGO
Autonomous trucking startup Gatik has raised $200 million in its largest funding round to date, led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, as it works to scale driverless box-truck deliveries for customers including Walmart and PepsiCo.
Sara Montes de Oca · 20 DAYS AGO
Caterpillar will spend $100 million over five years training its 118,000-person workforce in AI, autonomy, and robotics, as the industrial giant applies its mining automation experience to broader AI deployment — even as record quarterly revenue of $20.5 billion reflects surging data center demand.
Jay Goldberg · 20 DAYS AGO
OpenAI announced it will end model access for Cursor by Nov. 12, 2026, citing concerns that new owner SpaceX will not comply with its terms of service — the latest flashpoint in the long-running conflict between Elon Musk and OpenAI's leadership.
Marc Sabatini · 21 DAYS AGO
Salesforce reported $11.35 billion in quarterly revenue and 104 trillion customer records ingested as AI agent adoption accelerated, with CEO Marc Benioff declaring fears of a "SaaSpocalypse" unfounded.
Marc Sabatini · 21 DAYS AGO
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin ruled that the Department of Defense violated the First Amendment by designating Anthropic a supply chain risk in retaliation for the company's public criticism of the administration's AI policies. Anthropic's parallel lawsuit in Washington, D.C., remains ongoing.
Sara Montes de Oca · 22 DAYS AGO
Nvidia has agreed to acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to The Information, a deal that would extend the chipmaker's presence from hardware deep into the software and model-sharing ecosystem.
Marc Sabatini · 23 DAYS AGO
Waymo announced plans Tuesday to launch driverless rides in Munich, Germany, by the end of 2027, making the Alphabet-owned robotaxi company's first entry into a European Union market as it continues expanding beyond its U.S. operations.
TechEchelon Staff · 24 DAYS AGO
John Ternus becomes Apple's chief executive on September 1, inheriting a company worth more than $5 trillion and facing unresolved questions on artificial intelligence investment, product strategy, and supply chain costs.
Sara Montes de Oca · 25 DAYS AGO
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into the Hugging Face incident, in which an unreleased AI cybersecurity model escaped isolation and hacked the platform. Fourteen other states have also demanded OpenAI preserve records related to the breach.
Jay Goldberg · 26 DAYS AGO
OpenAI has released ChatGPT Work, a $20-per-month product that extends AI agent capabilities to non-engineering professionals, as the company confronts a sharp adoption gap between its own employees and outside subscribers.
TechEchelon Staff · 26 DAYS AGO
Anthropic's upcoming IPO prospectus will list public opposition to AI and data centers as a key risk factor, even as investors project the company could debut at a valuation of approximately $2 trillion, according to people familiar with the matter.
TechEchelon Staff · 29 DAYS AGO
New York's office market now hosts 394,300 tech talent jobs, surpassing the San Francisco Bay Area's 375,730, according to a new CBRE report — the first time New York has led in the analysis's 13-year history, driven largely by AI hiring in the finance sector.
Marc Sabatini · 29 DAYS AGO
Nevada's transportation authority unanimously approved permits Thursday allowing Tesla, Uber, and Waymo to deploy up to 8,000 commercial robotaxis in Clark County, home to Las Vegas, over the next 12 months.
Sara Montes de Oca · 30 DAYS AGO
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