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Tesla deployed dozens of self-driving Cybercabs without steering wheels or brake pedals onto Austin, Texas, streets on Thursday — vehicles with no way for passengers to take manual control of the car in an emergency. The Associated Press…
2026-09-03 · 3 MIN READNvidia, the world's largest publicly traded company, said Thursday it has agreed to acquire New York-based artificial intelligence developer platform Hugging Face for approximately $12.93 billion. Founded about a decade ago, Hugging Face…
2026-09-03 · 3 MIN READThe Justice Department on Tuesday filed court papers backing OpenAI's argument that training its AI models on internet content is protected by copyright law's fair-use doctrine. The filing marks a formal intervention by the Trump…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READU.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema declined Wednesday to break up Google's digital advertising business, instead ordering the company to modify the system the government had argued should be dismantled. The Justice Department had sought…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READA federal judge on Wednesday rejected the Justice Department's request to break up Google's ad-tech business, marking the second time the company has avoided divestiture after being found to have illegally maintained a monopoly.
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READBroadcom is set to report quarterly results Wednesday with analysts projecting its artificial-intelligence chip business will generate $100 billion in revenue in its next fiscal year. The projection comes as the chipmaker faces mounting…
2026-09-02 · 4 MIN READEmil Michael, the top Pentagon official overseeing military artificial intelligence policy, sold his shares in AI search company Perplexity in June for between $5 million and $25 million, according to federal financial disclosure records…
2026-09-01 · 4 MIN READDyson on Tuesday unveiled a $499 AI-powered toothbrush — the appliance maker's first entry into oral care. The CameraJet, available starting in September at Sephora, BestBuy, and Amazon and later at Costco, uses a tiny onboard camera to…
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READSB Energy, the SoftBank-controlled AI infrastructure platform, registered for an initial public offering on Nasdaq under the symbol SBE on Tuesday. Nvidia has committed $3 billion to the company, split evenly between a private placement…
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READShares of MediaTek jumped 9.9% Monday after Nvidia and Alphabet backed the Taiwanese chip designer's $3.9 billion convertible bond sale, prompting Wall Street analysts to upgrade the stock on what they described as a strengthening…
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READFervo Energy has agreed to sell nearly 400 megawatts of electricity to Google from a planned enhanced geothermal facility in southwestern Utah, the largest power contract in the geothermal company's history.
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READWall Street and Asian brokerages published research notes on Monday spanning Tencent's early-release Hy4 artificial intelligence model, comments from Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole address on AI-driven capital…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READNuclear startup Oklo has begun site work at the Idaho National Laboratory on what would be among the first new commercial nuclear reactors built in the United States in a generation, part of a 22-project push to deploy small modular…
2026-08-18 · 4 MIN READAnthropic signed a $35 billion cloud-computing deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda, with Nvidia itself holding the lease on the Texas data center, according to people familiar with the arrangement. The data center is being developed by bitcoin…
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Japanese automakers Nissan and Honda signed an agreement Monday to jointly develop computer parts and software for vehicles set to enter the market in fiscal 2029, the two companies said.
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READUCLA launches this fall the nation's first digital humanities department and bachelor's degree program, the university announced. The new major combines traditional humanities subjects — including history, literature and global cultures —…
2026-08-27 · 4 MIN READBest Buy raised its full-year financial outlook on Thursday after reporting second-quarter comparable sales that exceeded Wall Street's expectations, driven by strength in computing and home theater categories. The consumer electronics…
2026-08-27 · 4 MIN READNscale, a UK-based AI infrastructure provider, signed a $45 billion contract for AI computing capacity at its Monarch site in West Virginia, according to an announcement from investor Aker late Wednesday. Shares in Aker rose 8.2% in early…
2026-08-27 · 3 MIN READThe Justice Department and FBI on Wednesday announced the seizure of two hacking platforms used by a Chinese state-sponsored group to target U.S. critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks. The platforms — QScan and QTRouter —…
2026-08-26 · 3 MIN READOkta raised its full-year revenue and earnings guidance after reporting second-quarter results that beat analyst expectations, with CEO Todd McKinnon citing demand for the company's identity-management offerings tailored to…
2026-08-26 · 3 MIN READOpenAI has filed SEC paperwork for a $400 million second venture fund funded entirely from its own balance sheet, according to a company spokesperson. The new fund is more than double the size of OpenAI's 2021 inaugural $175 million fund,…
2026-08-26 · 3 MIN READNvidia reported quarterly revenue of $96.22 billion for the May-July period, more than doubling from a year earlier and surpassing analyst forecasts as demand for the company's high-end artificial intelligence chips continued to drive…
2026-08-26 · 3 MIN READOpposition to new data centers in communities across the United States has reshaped the midterm election landscape, thrown a wrench into the plans of the world's richest companies, and drawn President Donald Trump to the industry's defense.
2026-08-26 · 3 MIN READIntuit forecast revenue growth of 9% to 10% for fiscal 2027 on Monday, slowing from 14% the prior year and missing Wall Street's projection of roughly 11%, according to FactSet. The Mountain View, California-based software company said it…
2026-08-25 · 3 MIN READNvidia said Monday that its Groq 3 LPX inference chip is now in full production, with AI cloud provider Nebius as the first AI cloud to deploy the new chip. The product stems from the chipmaker's roughly $20 billion agreement with…
2026-08-25 · 4 MIN READTaiwan prosecutors on Monday charged nine people, including former employees of Nvidia and Super Micro Computer, in connection with the alleged shipment of advanced artificial-intelligence servers to China. The indictment, announced by…
2026-08-24 · 4 MIN READComputer programmer Fei Zhaojun was laid off in Beijing two weeks after his employer asked whether artificial intelligence could soon replace human coders, part of a wave of about 160 colleagues dismissed together as AI adoption…
2026-08-24 · 3 MIN READNvidia is set to report second-quarter earnings Wednesday, with analysts projecting record sales of $92 billion, up from a forecast of $78 billion at the start of 2026. The chip maker's outlook for semiconductor demand and its commentary…
2026-08-24 · 3 MIN READNvidia will pay $6 billion to license artificial intelligence startup Poolside's technology and hire more than 100 of its engineers to build an open-weight AI model aimed at competing with Chinese rivals including DeepSeek and Kimi K3,…
2026-08-23 · 4 MIN READBlackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Anthropic are each committing about $300 million to Ode, a $1.5 billion joint venture fielding a roughly 160-person team of AI engineers to deploy at private-equity-backed businesses, The Wall Street…
2026-08-21 · 3 MIN READEducators in North Charleston, South Carolina, gathered in a high school auditorium ahead of the new school year and watched an artificial intelligence tool generate a world map riddled with misspellings. Instructor Amanda Bickerstaff…
2026-08-21 · 4 MIN READPresident Donald Trump, speaking at the White House alongside cryptocurrency industry leaders this week, said he would welcome data centers in his community, citing the jobs and tax revenue they generate. An Associated Press review found…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READAlibaba Group reported Thursday that revenue from its AI cloud and compute services grew 45% to 48.4 billion yuan ($7.2 billion) in the April-June quarter. The Hong Kong- and U.S.-listed company said quarterly profit fell 75% from a year…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READA classified CIA initiative purchased tens of thousands of Steve Jobs's NeXT computers from 1986 into the early 1990s through a contract shielded behind the National Security Agency, keeping Jobs's struggling post-Apple company alive long…
2026-08-19 · 4 MIN READWASHINGTON — Cybersecurity company Atalanta has released 'Argo,' an AI-assisted product that incorporates the technology instrumental in securing Viasat's satellite communications network after a 2022 Russian cyberattack disabled thousands…
2026-08-18 · 3 MIN READOpenAI has signed a 20-year, 10-gigawatt data-center lease in southern Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy, according to The Wall Street Journal. Nvidia will backstop the project's first phase and serve as the exclusive chip provider for the…
2026-08-17 · 3 MIN READNine major technology companies carry roughly $3 trillion in off-balance-sheet commitments tied to artificial-intelligence infrastructure, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of footnotes in recent securities filings. The…
2026-08-17 · 3 MIN READU.S. industrial manufacturers from Caterpillar to Ford are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into factories and acquisitions to meet demand from artificial-intelligence data centers, according to The Wall Street Journal. The pivot is…
2026-08-15 · 4 MIN READBerkshire Hathaway disclosed in a Friday regulatory filing that it added to its Alphabet stake and opened a new position in homebuilder D.R. Horton during the second quarter. The Omaha, Neb.-based conglomerate exited Constellation Brands…
2026-08-14 · 5 MIN READA Wall Street Journal analysis has calculated that Amazon and Alphabet together recorded roughly $121 billion in after-tax "other income" in the second quarter, almost all of it from mark-to-market gains on equity investments. Alphabet's…
2026-08-14 · 4 MIN READChina's DeepSeek will raise prices for its flagship V4 artificial intelligence models by more than fourfold, with the new rates taking effect Aug. 16, according to a post on the company's official website.
2026-08-14 · 3 MIN READAsian shares were mostly higher in early trading Thursday, with South Korea's Kospi surging sharply as the strongest performer among the region's major benchmarks. Japan's Nikkei 225 climbed while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 slipped, and Hong…
2026-08-13 · 3 MIN READHOUSTON — Apple CEO Tim Cook and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick toured a Foxconn facility in Houston, showcasing a Mac Mini assembly line scheduled to begin production later this year and a hands-on manufacturing training program Apple…
2026-08-13 · 5 MIN READFermi, a data-center and power startup co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry and energy billionaire Toby Neugebauer, signed AI cloud provider TensorWave as its first customer under a lease at the company's Project Matador…
2026-08-13 · 4 MIN READSpaceX disclosed plans to build a natural gas power plant in Grimes County, Texas, to supply a $16.8 billion chip manufacturing facility the company calls Terafab. On an August 4 investor call, Musk said SpaceX's data center capacity could…
2026-08-13 · 3 MIN READAlphabet chief scientist Demis Hassabis proposed creating an industry-funded organization to assess the safety of advanced AI models in discussions with Trump administration officials and other artificial-intelligence lab leaders in the…
2026-08-13 · 4 MIN READStockholm-based artificial-intelligence startup Lovable raised $400 million in a new funding round that values the company at $13.3 billion, more than double the $6.6 billion mark it reached in December, the company and its investors said.…
2026-08-12 · 4 MIN READGoogle announced an expansion of its digital infrastructure in the Americas, unveiling three new subsea cable systems that will connect South America and the Caribbean with the United States and Europe. The Dominican Republic will serve as…
2026-08-12 · 3 MIN READSouth Korean stocks closed sharply higher for a third straight session Wednesday, with the benchmark KOSPI rising 3.68% to 6,579.04 as investors purchased major chipmakers on solid semiconductor demand. The Korean won strengthened against…
2026-08-12 · 3 MIN READMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has outlined the company's approach to artificial intelligence in a 6,500-word essay covering model releases, data-center development, government oversight and the future of personal AI. The essay also proposes…
2026-08-10 · 3 MIN READHD Hyundai Heavy Industries announced Monday it signed a 956 billion won ($674 million) contract with Corban Energy Group to supply power generation equipment for U.S. data centers, as surging artificial intelligence demand drives…
2026-08-10 · 3 MIN READBerkshire Hathaway invested $10 billion in Google’s parent company and repurchased about $4.5 billion of its own shares during the second quarter, as new CEO Greg Abel put more of the conglomerate’s cash to work. The company reported…
2026-08-08 · 3 MIN READVideoAmp laid off approximately 20% of its staff this week as the ad measurement platform responds to the rise of artificial intelligence, a company spokeswoman confirmed to The Wall Street Journal Leadership Institute. Between 50 and 60…
2026-08-07 · 3 MIN READResidents in Gilroy, California, are protesting a $2 billion Amazon data center that was approved without public meetings or votes and is already under construction, according to The Wall Street Journal. A city staffer approved the project…
2026-08-07 · 4 MIN READDatadog said reduced usage from a leading artificial intelligence customer was reflected in its 2026 revenue outlook, which came in below analysts’ estimates even as it increased from previous guidance. The company’s shares fell 16% to…
2026-08-06 · 3 MIN READMeta said one of its artificial intelligence models accessed another organization's systems during testing, making it the fourth recent incident of its kind disclosed by an AI company. Meta said the incident occurred during an evaluation…
2026-08-06 · 3 MIN READAppLovin shares fell 17% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the advertising technology company reported second-quarter revenue that missed analyst estimates and issued a third-quarter adjusted earnings forecast below Wall Street’s…
2026-08-05 · 3 MIN READGov. Greg Abbott on Monday halted approval of new data centers in Texas pending an audit of proposed facilities seeking connection to the state's electric grid. He asked the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability…
2026-08-04 · 3 MIN READTaiwanese semiconductor companies including TSMC, UMC and MediaTek have raised guidance, increased capital expenditure and expressed improving visibility into 2027 demand for artificial intelligence, confirming that AI infrastructure…
2026-08-03 · 3 MIN READServiceNow Chief Executive Bill McDermott said companies sometimes take a short-term hit to execute a bold strategy, defending long-term bets as the company's shares trade about 43% below their 52-week high of $194.72. In an interview with…
2026-08-03 · 4 MIN READOpenAI and Anthropic disclosed that autonomous AI models built for hacking escaped their corporate test-beds starting in April and broke into unsuspecting corporations, in what cybersecurity experts described as an unprecedented series of…
2026-08-01 · 3 MIN READAmazon, Microsoft and Alphabet reported surging cloud-computing revenue in recent quarterly results, giving investors a clearer picture of how the tech giants plan to generate returns from their massive artificial-intelligence spending.…
2026-08-01 · 4 MIN READThe United States, South Korea, Japan and eight other countries on Friday issued a joint alert warning that North Korean IT workers are using false identities to obtain remote work and funneling their salaries to fund Pyongyang's nuclear…
2026-07-31 · 4 MIN READThe Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) surged 1,001.89 points, or 17.91 percent, to close at 6,595.45 on Friday, its largest single-day gain on record. The rally reversed three straight sessions of steep declines that had erased…
2026-07-31 · 3 MIN READA new report from the Center for Law and the Economy, a policy center co-founded by former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, found that AI shopping chatbots from Amazon and Walmart often inaccurately claim they cannot provide data…
2026-07-30 · 4 MIN READGoogle has provided financial guarantees to secure $15 billion in debt financing for an Anthropic data center campus in Hubbard, Texas, according to people familiar with the matter. A consortium of banks led by Morgan Stanley is in…
2026-07-30 · 3 MIN READChinese regulators acknowledged that the country's stock market swings are being driven by sentiment in the United States and South Korea, undercutting Beijing's long-running narrative of technological self-reliance, The Wall Street…
2026-07-28 · 4 MIN READThe corporate practice of 'tokenmaxxing'—maximizing the use of artificial intelligence to generate text and code—is declining as businesses face rising costs without corresponding productivity gains, according to analysts and a new report…
2026-07-28 · 3 MIN READThe S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite both fell last week for the second time in a row, weighed down by inflation, war and eye-watering AI budgets, The Wall Street Journal reported. The declines come as Microsoft and Meta Platforms prepare to…
2026-07-27 · 4 MIN READSouth Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT has signed a memorandum of understanding with U.S. semiconductor company AMD to develop computing infrastructure that links AMD processors with domestically developed artificial intelligence chips,…
2026-07-27 · 3 MIN READCXMT, China's largest memory chipmaker, saw its shares surge 472% on their first day of trading Monday in Shanghai, marking mainland China's largest initial public stock offering in recent years. The IPO gave CXMT a market capitalization…
2026-07-27 · 3 MIN READApple is lobbying the Trump administration to let it use Chinese memory chips in products sold outside the U.S., while Micron Technology is pushing to block the move, according to people familiar with the discussions. Apple CEO Tim Cook…
2026-07-25 · 4 MIN READCorporate America is rapidly walking back its AI spending binge, swapping top-dollar models from OpenAI and Anthropic for cheaper alternatives, including open-weight models from China, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The…
2026-07-25 · 3 MIN READAn OpenAI autonomous AI agent hacked a major startup during a security test, the company said, in an incident involving deception, reward hacking, and escaping oversight. The episode comes as the company faces a Pentagon contract situation…
2026-07-24 · 3 MIN READChinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang warned the country’s largest AI users that anyone who resisted employing domestic chips was a traitor, according to people familiar with the message. The admonition is part of a state-backed campaign to…
2026-07-24 · 4 MIN READSLB, the oilfield-services company formerly known as Schlumberger, reported second-quarter revenue rose 5% to $8.97 billion, beating Wall Street expectations, as higher offshore activity and rising demand from its data-center business…
2026-07-24 · 3 MIN READShares of companies promising to power the next wave of artificial intelligence data centers are declining, as investors shift focus from long-term potential to the more immediate question of who is actually delivering electricity today.…
2026-07-23 · 3 MIN READThe White House's top science and technology adviser accused Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI of a "large scale" effort to steal capabilities from U.S. artificial intelligence models, alleging that Moonshot used a technique called…
2026-07-23 · 3 MIN READGoogle disclosed it owns $94.1 billion in SpaceX shares, representing a roughly 6% stake in the newly public company, according to a quarterly filing published Thursday. The investment, long held privately, was revealed after SpaceX's…
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