NVIDIA’s Japan Deal Builds a National AI Factory on Rubin Chips
The stage was set in Tokyo, and the setting was unusual even for NVIDIA. Chief executive Jensen Huang appeared on July 16 alongside Japan’s trade minister, Ryosei Akazawa, to announce…
Anthropic Lines Up Credit, Blackstone Venture Ahead of IPO
The paperwork is piling up in the banks’ deal rooms. Anthropic is in talks with lenders about a multi-billion-dollar credit facility, according to people familiar with the matter, the kind…
TSMC Posts Record Quarter, Adds $100 Billion to Arizona Bet
The numbers came out of the earnings call in Taipei first. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported net income of 706.6 billion New Taiwan dollars, about $21.9 billion, for the second…
Uber’s Product Chief Plots a Two-Front Push Into Robotaxis and Hotels
In an interview with TechCrunch, Uber’s product chief laid out a two-front expansion that would carry the company beyond ride-hailing: lobbying Washington for federal autonomous-vehicle rules that would let Uber…
SpaceX Notches 600th Booster Reuse as Its Stock Faces Three Headwinds
A Falcon 9 booster came back to Earth, was refitted, and flew again this week, the 600th time SpaceX has reused a booster, according to Spaceflight Now. The number is…
OpenAI Ships GPT-5.6 With Three Price Tiers Named Sol, Terra, and Luna
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 to the public this week, with the model split into three pricing tiers named after the sun, the earth, and the moon: Sol for flagship work, Terra…
General Fusion’s Nasdaq Debut Makes It the First Listed Fusion Company
A Vancouver company that has never delivered a watt of electricity to a grid began trading on the Nasdaq this week, and investors bid its shares up sharply on the…
Intel Commits €5 Billion to Europe as Nova Lake Production Comes Home
Intel said it will spend €5 billion, about $5.7 billion, to expand chip manufacturing in Europe, concentrating the investment on its fab complex in Ireland. The same day, TechPowerUp reported…
ASML’s Earnings Will Test the Chip Industry’s Faith in Its Order Book
When ASML reports quarterly results, investors will be looking for answers to two questions: how quickly the Dutch company can clear its backlog of advanced lithography machines, and how much…
SK Hynix’s U.S. Rally Collides With a Capacity-Reality Check
Since listing American depositary receipts in New York, SK Hynix’s shares have climbed sharply, with Barron’s describing American money as the Korean memory maker’s new growth engine. This week came…
