SK Hynix breaks ground on a $4B memory packaging hub in Indiana

SK Hynix has broken ground on a plant costing more than $4B in West Lafayette, Indiana, its first US base for packaging high-bandwidth memory, with production due in the second half of 2029. Intel’s [...]

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the human workforce it sold as AI

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September. The marketplace is 21 years old, and it paid people a few cents at a time to do work that computers could not. Jeff Bezos once called it “artificia [...]

Meta refused to switch a teen safety tool on by default, jury told

Someone inside Instagram proposed switching its break reminder on by default. The proposal was rejected because the cost to the app’s core metrics was not desirable. George Volichenko, a former Meta [...]

Twitch will train Amazon’s AI on your streams unless you find the setting

Twitch has added a setting letting streamers stop Amazon using their streams, clips and chat to train generative AI, buried in security settings and off by default. Chief product officer Mike Minton e [...]

Winamp is making another comeback, this time with Deezer-powered streaming

It really whips the llama’s ass, and apparently it is not done yet. Winamp, the music player millions of us loaded up before Spotify existed, is planning another comeback. This time it has real stre [...]

Amazon’s Zoox just won the first US OK to charge for rides in a no-wheel robotaxi

Amazon’s Zoox has become the first company allowed to charge for rides in a robotaxi that has no steering wheel and no pedals. US regulators granted the exemption on Wednesday. It is a first for the [...]

The EU just fined AliExpress €550M, its biggest DSA penalty yet

Alibaba’s AliExpress has been hit with a €550 million ($629 million) fine from the European Union. Brussels says the Chinese shopping platform failed to keep illegal, unsafe and counterfeit produc [...]

Prysmian signs €5.5bn fibre deal with Molex to wire AI data centres

Prysmian has signed a €5.5bn, 10-year agreement with Molex, the Koch Industries-owned connector and cable maker, to supply optical cable for use inside AI data centres. Unusually for a supply deal o [...]

OpenAI adds two banking CEOs to its board as an IPO looms

The ChatGPT maker has put two banking chiefs on both its nonprofit and for-profit boards: Nubank’s David Vélez and BNY’s Robin Vince. It is the kind of Wall Street ballast a company assembles whe [...]