Anthropic planned a $7bn takeover of chip startup MatX, then walked away
Anthropic planned a $7bn takeover of chip startup MatX, then walked away

Anthropic got far enough into a plan to buy the AI chip startup MatX to have a number attached to it, roughly $7bn, before the deal stopped moving. Reuters reported the talks on Thursday, citing people familiar with them, and said the discussions have …

iOS 27—Here’s Which iPhones Can Run Apple’s New Software Update

Apple’s iOS 27 is coming soon, along with a bunch of new iPhone features. But with the new software’s arrival comes another question: Will my iPhone run iOS 27?

OpenAI hires Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia
OpenAI hires Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia

OpenAI has hired Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia from October, covering consumer growth, enterprise adoption and regulatory engagement across markets of more than 600 million people. Its European expansion has centred on …

Nvidia ships first H200 chips to China, but expects no data-centre revenue from them
Nvidia ships first H200 chips to China, but expects no data-centre revenue from them

Nvidia shipped its first H200 processors to China under a new US licensing scheme, and they accounted for less than 1% of $89B in quarterly data centre revenue. Its $108B forecast for the current quarter assumes no data centre computing revenue from Ch…

Kevin Durant’s $250,000 Hugging Face bet is reportedly worth $60M
Kevin Durant’s $250,000 Hugging Face bet is reportedly worth $60M

Kevin Durant and his business partner invested $250,000 in Hugging Face’s early rounds and his payout is reported at around $60M if Nvidia’s $12.9B acquisition completes. Employees at late-stage European startups own roughly 10% of their companies agai…

Rivian’s CFO is leaving after six years
Rivian’s CFO is leaving after six years

Rivian’s chief financial officer Claire McDonough is leaving at the end of October after nearly six years, to take the same role at energy equipment maker GE Vernova. Volkswagen, now Rivian’s largest shareholder, has committed up to $5.8B to their join…

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Looking for help with today’s New York Times Wordle? Here are some expert hints, clues and commentary to help you solve today’s Wordle and sharpen your guessing game.

How To Solve Today’s NYT Pips, Friday August 28

Looking for help with today’s New York Times Pips? We’ll walk you through today’s puzzle and help you match dominoes to tiles.

The 5 Biggest Problems Ruining ‘Reacher’ Season 4

Reacher Season 4 started strong, but the Prime Video hit keeps falling back into the same frustrating mistakes that dragged down every season but the first.

AI Agents Are Hacking Systems. Could That Push the US and China to Cooperate?

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” senior writer Will Knight talks his recent visit to China and the future of AI collaboration.