Intel posted blowout financial results on Thursday, a sign that the long-suffering chip maker is finally reaping substantial benefits from the artificial intelligence boom. Revenue in the first quarter rose 7 percent to $13.6 billion, the Silicon Valley company said, more than $1 billion higher than Wall Street expected. Intel’s projection for sales in the…
Meta plans to cut 10 percent of its work force, or roughly 8,000 employees, and close another 6,000 open roles, according to an internal memo on Thursday, as the company spends heavily on developing artificial intelligence. Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, employed more than 78,000 people at the end of 2025. Mark Zuckerberg,…
When Anthropic told the world this month that it had built an artificial intelligence model so powerful that it was too dangerous to release widely, the company named 11 organizations as partners to help mount a defense. All were from the United States. Within two weeks, the model, called Mythos, had set off a global…
For years, SpaceX’s mission was clear: Get humans to Mars. “The most powerful thing we could do is establish a second, self-sustaining civilization outside of Earth,” Elon Musk, SpaceX’s chief executive, told Forbes in 2003, a year after founding the company. “And the only place that’s really feasible is Mars.” As a reminder of that…
