Last month, SoftBank sold $5.8 billion worth of Nvidia shares, and CEO Masayoshi Son now says he’s “crying” over the decision. “I don’t want to sell a single share,” he said at the FII Priority Asia forum in Tokyo today (Dec. 1). Son explained that the sale was meant to fund SoftBank’s investment in OpenAI…
When OpenAI opened its first Asian office in Tokyo in April 2024, the company highlighted Japan’s strengths: a deep engineering talent pool, a corporate sector known for precision, and a government eager to advance A.I. Last month, Anthropic followed suit, launching its own Tokyo office. The company, best known for its Claude models, also signed…
Anthropic, the company behind the Claude family of A.I. models, has moved with remarkable speed since its founding in 2021. In recent months, its high-velocity growth has been accompanied by a wave of high-profile hires, including Rahul Patil as chief technology officer (joining from Stripe) and Vitaly Gudanets as chief information security officer (joining from…
If you’ve ever tried to buy or sell a home, you know how strange it feels to make one of the biggest financial decisions of your life while being half in the dark. You can see listings, maybe a few comps and a rough estimate of value. But the full picture, the verified data that…
For years, crypto has resembled a casino, with flashy trends, wild price spikes and meme coins stealing the spotlight. But beneath the noise, something very different is taking shape in the middle of this so-called bear market. The next major leap in digital assets is unlikely to be fueled by the latest meme coin or…
Sam Altman and Jony Ive have stayed painstakingly cryptic about what their collaborative A.I. hardware device will ultimately look like. So far, the OpenAI CEO and former Apple designer have shared only that the product will be less clunky than a laptop and less screen-focused than a smartphone. Their latest hint, meanwhile, speaks to the…
Enabled Intelligence, an A.I. data labelling startup, might need to add a few new cubicles—the Falls Church, Va.-based company is quadrupling its workforce after securing a major contract to provide data labelling services to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the broader intelligence community. The five-year-old company credits its rise to an emphasis on…
The technology industry, once a landing pad for fresh computer science graduates, is rapidly automating away its early-career talent pipeline. A.I. coding tools like GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer now handle much of the entry-level work junior engineers once did, making it increasingly difficult for young professionals to break in. The impact isn’t limited to…
As the demand for A.I.-ready digital infrastructure skyrockets, data center development has become an urgent and necessary foundation for a wide spectrum of high-performance computing technologies—and for the businesses that are increasingly dependent on them. Unsurprisingly, data center construction has surged globally. Yet as growth accelerates, the roadblocks to building at the required pace and…
Despite a sharp decline in global electric vehicle sales, Tesla has found an unexpected bright spot in Norway, a longtime leader in EV adoption that appears unfazed by the company’s tarnished brand image. Tesla has sold more than 26,000 vehicles in Norway so far this year, putting it on track to surpass Volkswagen as the…
