Netflix Secures Walking Dead Rights in Five-Year, $500 Million Deal
Netflix and AMC Global Media announced Thursday a global licensing agreement that gives Netflix streaming rights to the entire Walking Dead universe, including the original series and all six of…
Jensen Huang Explains the Late Arrival on X: ‘I’m Quite Introverted’
Jensen Huang posted his first message on X in 2026, and he is fairly sure he holds the record for lateness. “I might be the last person on Earth to…
Samsung’s Memory Business Rides an AI Surge to a Record Quarter
Two years ago, Samsung Electronics executives spent earnings calls explaining losses in the semiconductor division. On Thursday they confronted the opposite problem: how to describe a quarter so large it…
Microsoft’s Record Quarter Comes With a Heavier Bill for the Future
Investors parsed Microsoft’s fiscal fourth-quarter results on Thursday with unusual care, and the number that drew the most attention was not revenue. It was a figure buried in the company’s…
Qualcomm’s Phone Business Drags as Auto and IoT Pick Up Slack
The smartphone upgrade cycle that Qualcomm has counted on for years still has not arrived. The company’s fiscal third-quarter results, reported Wednesday, showed a business treading water in its biggest…
Meta’s AI Spending Spooks Investors Despite a Revenue Beat
By the numbers, Meta Platforms had a good quarter. Revenue of $60.8 billion in the three months ended June 30 beat the $60.24 billion analysts had expected, and advertising sales…
OpenAI’s Revenue Keeps Climbing as a Key Researcher Returns
In an all-hands meeting this month, OpenAI’s chief financial officer delivered a message the company rarely puts on the record: the growth has not slowed down. Sarah Friar told employees…
Chip Stocks Surge as Microsoft’s Numbers Quiet Fears of an AI Slowdown
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index climbed more than 6% on Thursday, its biggest one-day gain in months, as investors seized on Microsoft’s earnings as the clearest evidence yet that the AI…
TSMC Builds a Challenge to Intel’s Chip-Packaging Fortress
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is developing a rival to Intel’s advanced chip-packaging technology, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that could redraw the battle lines in the…
Anthropic Says a Cache Error Exposed Claude Chats to Search Engines
A security lapse at Anthropic briefly made fragments of conversations with its Claude chatbot visible to anyone searching Google, the company acknowledged this week, in the latest example of the…
