Anthropic's co-founders say they “believe that AI is one of the most consequential technologies in human history”, detail its scientific potential, and more  —  We believe that Al is one of the most consequential technologies in human history.  If managed well …

Microsoft offers buyouts to ~60K workers at VP level and below across teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK; its headcount at the end of June was 223K  —  Microsoft Corp. will offer buyouts to about 60,000 workers, part of the company's efforts to trim costs and retool its workforce for the artificial intelligence era.

Meta plans to raise $95B to finance its AI infrastructure, including $35B in public equity offerings, backed by cornerstone investors Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom  —  Chipmakers Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom will act as cornerstone investors  —  Meta is planning to raise $95bn …

Apple unveils a redesigned iPad mini with an 8.5-inch OLED display, an A20 Pro, a nano-texture display option, and IP67 water resistance, for $699+ from Nov. 6  —  Featuring a stunning OLED display in an even thinner and lighter design, a huge leap in performance, faster wireless connectivity, and water and dust resistance

AI cybersecurity startup Cathedral says it breached Anthropic's data and messaging systems, under a program inviting outside experts to test Anthropic's systems  —  The start-up firm Cathedral has told makers of the Claude chatbot that its researchers were able to quickly penetrate sensitive systems …

iPhone Duo teardown: 5/10 repairability, a foldable record, but some screens crack along the fold, possibly because a hinge support bar fails to drop far enough  —  Apple's folding iPhone finally made it to our teardown table.  Some owners' screens didn't make it through setup.

Inside Slack's Salesforce culture clash: Benioff didn't use Slack and had ~1 hour with CEO Butterfield pre-deal; Butterfield quit after a Davos will.i.am panel  —  I needed a keyboard.  —  I stood at my reserved desk on the 7th floor of Salesforce's tower in Vancouver around 9am.

Instagram is testing Features, a new long-form horizontal video format of up to 90 minutes aimed at podcasters, comedians, and other creators, in the US  —  Select creators in the U.S. Monday and will be able to test out the new product, which could make the platform more of a destination for full video podcasts.

Microsoft and others push out emergency patches for a critical flaw in Brotli, the C decoder library built into Node.js, that could allow remote code execution  —  A critical flaw dubbed ‘HTTP2Shell’ in Brotli, the C decoder library built into Node.js, could allow attackers to corrupt memory and access sensitive data.

Elon Musk says SpaceX closed $40B in GPU debt, debt markets have shut off credit for AI data center companies, and 200+ neoclouds face “death and consolidation”  —  Pretty much. As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn't have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers. SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we're investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue. That means...

A look at OpenAI's and Anthropic's aggressive price cuts from June through September, driven by low switching costs and pricing pressure from open-weight models  —  Let's look at a quick timeline of the major LLM model announcements from both OpenAI and Anthropic over the past few months.

Bedrock Robotics, which makes driverless excavators and other autonomous construction machines, raised a $600M Series C at a $4.1B valuation  —  Bedrock Robotics Inc., a startup making driverless excavators and other autonomous construction machines, hit a $4.1 billion valuation in its latest funding round.

A look at TSMC's first plant in Phoenix that has achieved chip output rates comparable to its Taiwan facilities, as its Taiwanese engineers teach US workers  —  On July 5 the Northwest Chinese Baptist Church in Phoenix opened its weekly Mandarin service with a verse from the Old Testament.

Elvis Presley's music owners sue Anthropic for allegedly using 274 songs to train its models, seeking $41M+; Anthropic says it disagrees and will defend itself  —  The $41 million lawsuit contends that the A.I. company used Presley's music to train its models without permission.

The public internet model is dying from too much content, algorithmic aggregators, and vulnerabilities found with AI, and that may bring new possibilities  —  It was the summer of 2003, just weeks before I was set to move to Taiwan, that I decided to create a blog to document my journey.