TSMC will invest an additional $100 billion in its Arizona fabs, deepening its US manufacturing pledge — announced the same day it reported a record Q2 with profit up 77% on AI demand.
Stripe and private equity firm Advent made an unsolicited $60.50-per-share offer for PayPal, valuing it above $53 billion — and now that PayPal is officially in play, other suitors (including Musk's X) could jump in.
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab shipped its first model, Inkling — an open-weights release that the lab credits in part to techniques from the Chinese open-source ecosystem.
Torvalds put his foot down as top-level maintainer on the kernel list: LLM-assisted patches are welcome in Linux, and he's willing to overrule subsystem maintainers who dislike AI on principle.