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SoftBank went big on artificial intelligence. Now, the bill is making an entrance. The Japanese investment giant reported a 1.1 trillion yen net loss — roughly $7 billion — for the three months through September 2026. That’s a dramatic swing from its 2.5 trillion yen profit in the same quarter a year earlier, according to The Associated Press . And no, this wasn’t just a bad day for a chatbot. The damage came from a mix of costly infrastructure plans, financing expenses and the unpredictable world of tech investments. The Data Center Hit One particularly painful item: a roughly...

Google’s AI hardware lineup just got two new specialists ... and they’re coming for very different jobs. The tech giant announced TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max on November 9, expanding its eighth-generation family of tensor processing unit systems. The pitch: one is built to handle sensitive AI work, while the other is designed to keep up when models need to process a mountain of information. Google says the additions bring its eighth-generation lineup to four systems, alongside TPU 8t and TPU 8i, introduced in April. It’s the first time the company has introduced four TPU systems in a...

The government’s AI safety watchdog has a new reporting arrangement, no permanent boss and a growing list of questions about who gets to see its work. And now the White House is in the mix. Officials at the Commerce Department’s Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence, known as CAISSI , were recently asked to report informally to a White House office, The Associated Press reported . Two former government officials with knowledge of the discussions spoke to the AP anonymously to avoid repercussions for current staff. The arrangement is informal—not a reported transfer of the center’s...

AI has a new federal watchdog crew — and this one comes with a very Washington name. The Justice Department announced November 5 that it has formed a Super Intelligence Task Force to coordinate its response to unlawful uses of artificial intelligence. The department says it’s looking at potential misuse by foreign actors, criminal organizations, individuals and companies. So, what’s on the task force’s to-do list? According to the October 13 memorandum establishing the group , it will organize criminal and civil enforcement, help prevent DOJ offices from tripping over one another’s investigations, recommend enforcement priorities and develop guidance...

Claude fans, put the launch-party snacks back in the cupboard. Rumors about Anthropic’s next AI models are flying, but the company hasn’t announced Claude Opus 5.6 or Mythos 5.5—and a mysterious website clue isn’t the same thing as a release date. A November 2 report from Hyperdev rounded up speculation about Opus 5.6, Mythos 5.5 and another possible model, Fable 5.5. The chatter includes alleged testing and guessed launch dates. But the report was clear: the names and timing were not confirmed by Anthropic. The website clue that got tongues wagging Here’s the juicy bit: an Internet Archive capture...