Japan’s Go Plots Robotaxi Push After Record IPO
Go’s chief executive had been hearing the same question since his company’s listing in Tokyo: what are you going to do with the money? This week he gave an answer.…
OpenAI Adds Gemini Leader and Ex-White House Adviser Before IPO
Noam Shazeer, the engineer who co-wrote the paper that launched the modern AI boom and later returned to Google to lead its Gemini models, has left the company again, this…
SpaceX Shares Keep Climbing as Quarterly Revenue Beats Forecasts
SpaceX shares rose about 4% in a single session this week, extending a rally that has carried the company since its public listing and pushed its market value past several…
Meta’s $14.3 Billion AI Bet Hits a Data Wall
Inside Meta Platforms’ AI teams, engineers have adopted a phrase that now circulates in group chats and all-hands meetings: they describe the internal environment as a “soul-crushing gulag,” according to…
Apple Confirms Price Rises as Memory Costs Bite
Tim Cook’s call with analysts this week ran short, and his message was one Apple investors rarely hear from him: prices are going up. The chief executive said the global…
Search Ads Face New U.K. Rules as Epic Wins App Store Fight
Two decisions landed on the same day, and together they hit the two business models that have financed the internet for two decades. In London, the competition regulator imposed new…
Tencent Lets AI Agents Shop Through WeChat Pay
The agent did what millions of shoppers do every day: browsed mini-programs, compared prices, placed an order and paid, with no human in the loop. Caixin reported this week that…
Amazon Puts $12 Billion Into European Warehouses
The robot that Amazon showed off in Europe this week responds to plain language. A worker tells it where to take the cage of packages, and the machine, an updated…
Google Enters the AI Speaker Market at $99
The speaker Google unveiled this week looks like the Home models the company stopped updating years ago, but the inside is different: Gemini. The device, priced at $99, is Google’s…
Microsoft Loosens OpenAI Exclusivity in Revised Deal
For five years, the arrangement was simple. Microsoft held exclusive rights to OpenAI’s models, and OpenAI drew on Microsoft’s money and cloud capacity. This week the two companies quietly revised…
