Lumilens Raises $700 Million for Optical Interconnects
SAN JOSE, Calif.—The copper cables under the world’s data centers are running out of headroom, and a startup few people had heard of a year ago just raised a large…
Hadrian Raises $1.37 Billion for Defense Manufacturing
HAWTHORNE, Calif.—The machines in the factory do not look like weapons, and the company that runs them insists they are not in the business of making any. Hadrian builds precision…
SoftBank Borrows $10 Billion Against OpenAI Stake
TOKYO—The loan has no collateral in the usual sense; its security is a stake in a company that did not exist five years ago. SoftBank Group has borrowed $10 billion…
New Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay $942 Million
SANTA FE, N.M.—The judge’s ruling reads like a list of demands, and its total is the largest of its kind in American law. A New Mexico court has ordered Meta…
Researchers Use AI to Design New Viruses
BOSTON—The virus did not exist anywhere in nature, and it was designed in a laboratory by a machine that learned biology from text. American researchers said this week that they…
Alphabet Sells $25 Billion in Bonds as AI Demand Surges
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—The order book closed at roughly $115 billion, a pile of demand so large that it ranked among the biggest of the year. Alphabet said Thursday it has…
SanDisk Signs Eight Long-Term Memory Supply Deals
MILPITAS, Calif.—SanDisk’s chief executive has spent years listening to customers describe their demand in three-month windows, and he says the era of short planning horizons is over. Speaking on the…
Microsoft Opens Fourth Cloud Region in India
HYDERABAD—The cranes have come down and the servers are running. Microsoft said on Aug. 6 that its cloud region in Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana state, has officially opened, making…
OpenAI Expands Free ChatGPT With GPT-5.6 Luna
SAN FRANCISCO—The free tier of the most popular AI product on earth is about to get bigger. OpenAI said on Aug. 6 that it is updating its ChatGPT experience, giving…
Firmus Raises $2 Billion for Sovereign AI Cloud
SYDNEY—The pitch that Firmus makes to governments is simple: your data, your compute, your country. The Australian company builds cloud infrastructure designed to keep artificial-intelligence workloads inside national borders, a…
