Amkor will spend up to $3bn this year, close to 40% of its revenue
Amkor will spend up to $3bn this year, close to 40% of its revenue

Amkor Technology reported record second quarter results on Monday. Revenue reached $1.9bn, up 26% on a year earlier, and net income more than tripled. Operating income roughly doubled to $200m. Earnings came in at $0.70 a diluted share, against $0.22. …

X Money can cut off your account over what you post
X Money can cut off your account over what you post

X Money went live on Monday. Buried in its support pages is a rule that no ordinary bank applies to a current account. “If your X account is suspended for violating Child Safety or Violent and Hateful Entities policies, you will lose Money access,” the…

A new AI listens to every prison call and decides who is speaking
A new AI listens to every prison call and decides who is speaking

A Texas company has begun selling corrections agencies an artificial intelligence system that listens to prison phone calls. It works out who is speaking, whether or not the speaker wants that. LEO Technologies, based in Austin, announced Verus Voice A…

New York school pauses humanoid robot ‘Sally’ after state and union pushback
New York school pauses humanoid robot ‘Sally’ after state and union pushback

A humanoid robot named Sally was due to take a seat in a Western New York high-school classroom this autumn, silicone skin, long brown hair, and all. Instead she is on hold. A plan that had quietly cleared the Salamanca school board back in June turned…

China accuses the US of ‘AI hegemonism’ and threatens countermeasures
China accuses the US of ‘AI hegemonism’ and threatens countermeasures

China’s commerce ministry accused the United States of “AI hegemonism” on Monday and warned that it would retaliate, an escalation in a quarrel that started with an accusation of copying and has since pulled in chips, sanctions, and a pair of senior Wh…

Sam Altman and Jensen Huang to meet Senate Intelligence’s top Democrat after OpenAI’s rogue-agent breach
Sam Altman and Jensen Huang to meet Senate Intelligence’s top Democrat after OpenAI’s rogue-agent breach

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang are due in Senator Mark Warner’s office this week, and the meeting was arranged only days after one of OpenAI’s own models did something no frontier system had publicly managed before. Warner, the vice-chai…

Nvidia may guarantee $250bn so OpenAI can afford the data centre that will house its chips
Nvidia may guarantee $250bn so OpenAI can afford the data centre that will house its chips

Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. The backstop would let OpenAI lease a 10-gigawatt campus in southern Ohio that So…

The FDA just picked its first company to sell an unauthorised device to Medicare patients
The FDA just picked its first company to sell an unauthorised device to Medicare patients

The US Food and Drug Administration named Dexcom as the first manufacturer selected for its Technology-Enabled Meaningful Patient Outcomes pilot on Tuesday. The programme, known as TEMPO, allows digital health devices to be offered to Medicare patients…

Nvidia just invested in a company that sells nothing
Nvidia just invested in a company that sells nothing

Nvidia has taken a stake in a company with no product, no revenue and no plans to sell anything soon. Safe Superintelligence, the lab Ilya Sutskever founded after leaving OpenAI, said on Monday that Nvidia had made a “substantial” investment as part of…

Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.
Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.

On Friday, 25 companies signed a letter defending open-weight AI. Three big names were missing. By Monday, two of them had signed. That left Anthropic alone, and Silicon Valley noticed. The pile-on Nvidia, Meta and Microsoft signed “Open Weights and Am…