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Tech Across the Globe

Apple AI: The iPhone maker is preparing to allow third-party developers to write software using the company’s artificial intelligence models, aiming to spur the creation of new applications and make its devices more enticing.

Nintendo chips: Nintendo will hire Samsung to manufacture the main chips for the Switch 2, the company’s new gaming console that is projected to sell 20 million units by March of next year.

Google Search: The company said it will offer its generative AI chatbot to all US search users, trying to push its AI products to the market faster and keep up with rivals. The company announced a number of updates to its AI products during its developer conference.

Revalued

Builder.ai, the British artificial intelligence startup backed by Microsoft Corp. and the Qatar Investment Authority, is filing for bankruptcy. Viola Credit, which provided $50 million in debt to the software firm last year, has seized $37 million from Builder.ai’s accounts, leaving the company with $5 million, Chief Executive Officer Manpreet Ratia said. The proceedings mark a stunning fall from grace for a company that two years ago raised a $250 million funding round led by QIA, one of the world’s biggest sovereign wealth funds.

Must Read

Residents in the West Texas town of Abilene, about 180 miles west of Dallas, aren’t quite sure what to make of OpenAI’s massive AI data center now under construction, Emily Chang reports in today’s Tech In Depth. But they’re cautiously hopeful that the megafactory of the future will generate jobs and economic development, she writes.

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This Week In Screentime

One of David Zaslav’s moves when he created Warner Bros. Discovery in 2022 was to dump the HBO brand from its streaming service and cancel a subscription offering from CNN, writes Lucas Shaw in this week’s Screentime. It has taken Zaslav a while, but now he’s reversing those decisions — based on the data, Shaw writes.

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