Tessier-Ashpool S.A. Term Analysis

...Armitage, but, because AIs aren’t allowed autonomy, both Molly and Finn assume it’s Wintermute’s owners, Tessier-Ashpool S.A., who owns the mainframe and software, who are pulling Armitage’s strings. (full context)

After this, Smith came to the Finn. The Finn discovered Tessier-Ashpool S.A. was technically a law firm, which owned all of Freeside—an enormous settlement in orbit... (full context)

Case returns to the loft, passing a holographic advertisement for Freeside, with a T-A logo in the bottom corner. As he walks, he considers Dixie, remembering how they met... (full context)

...thick digital defenses, so dense they must have belonged to an artificial intelligence. Owned by Tessier-Ashpool. This AI was based in Rio, however, not Berne. (full context)

...explains that he is like a man with his lobes separated, the other lobe being Tessier-Ashpool’s AI in Rio. Wintermute is only a “potential entity,” “one aspect of that entity’s brain.” (full context)

...Waking up in his hotel, Case realizes the wasp nest in his dream bore the T-A logo of Tessier-Ashpool. (full context)

...systems and artificial intelligences.” The Hosaka also informs him that, several steps up the ladder, Tessier-Ashpool owns the virus. (full context)

...tells Case that Armitage wants him to start the mission. Dixie transports Case to the Tessier-Ashpool core data center. Their ice as the thickest Case has ever seen. He considers backing... (full context)

...Case he made him have this dream. He explains the wasp nest is like the Tessier-Ashpool family. He hopes this will make Case “feel better,” and turn his hatred on to... (full context)

...Finn’s story. It recites the history of the Villa Straylight, built by and for the Tessier-Ashpool family. The Finn/Wintermute explains that the head is a “ceremonial terminal,” and that Molly needs... (full context)

...and Case’s computer as well.  Dixie passes on information from Wintermute, he told him most Tessier-Ashpools are in cold sleep. 3Jane is the only one awake in Straylight. The other two... (full context)

...as human. When he thought of power, he thought of immortal corporations, but realizes the Tessier-Ashpool family isn’t like that—it is made up of a finite number of mortal, insane individuals,... (full context)

...airplane, and Case and Dixie climb into the cockpit. They navigate the virus into the Tessier-Ashpool ice, shattering it, and traveling inside. Below, they see a city of data, but they... (full context)

Case jacks in. He rides Kuang above a neon city, T-A’s data. He calls out for Dixie, who doesn’t respond. Wintermute calls out to Case in... (full context)

Case thinks about his time inside the matrix, staring down into the heart of the T-A cores. He understands why Wintermute made him imagine it as a wasp nest, but notes... (full context)