Qualcomm and Apple Renew the Patent Deal That Ended a War
In April 2019, as a federal jury trial between Apple and Qualcomm was getting under way in San Diego, the two companies settled a two-year legal war and signed a…
Anthropic’s AI Finds an Enzyme System Hidden in Viral DNA
The signal came 21 hours into a search through an enormous database of DNA sequences. One of roughly 950 Claude agents, working on its own, stopped and flagged a repeating…
Delivery Hero Keeps Its CEO to See the Uber Deal Through
Delivery Hero had a plan: co-founder Niklas Östberg would step down as chief executive in March 2027. That plan lasted until Uber showed up with an offer. On Sept. 24,…
BlackRock and IFM Close In on a $25 Billion Data-Centre Deal
Stack Infrastructure’s Asia-Pacific data centres have drawn bidders all summer. Now a consortium backed by BlackRock and IFM Investors has moved to the front of the line. The group has…
SoftBank Borrows $11.1 Billion to Finish Its OpenAI Bet
The bill for SoftBank’s wager on OpenAI has come due, and the Japanese group has turned to the junk-bond market to pay it. SoftBank confirmed in a filing on Sept.…
Oracle Seeks Escape Clause on New Mexico Data Center
The data center Oracle is building in southern New Mexico is called Project Jupiter, a campus designed to draw 2.45 gigawatts of power. On Wednesday, Oracle sent the project’s developer…
Microsoft Puts $10 Billion Behind Middle East AI
Two years ago, Microsoft paid $1.5 billion for a stake in G42, an Abu Dhabi artificial-intelligence company, and took a seat on its board. This week the software giant said…
Big Cloud’s AI Bill Tops $4.2 Trillion Through 2029
For years, the largest cloud companies paid for their data centers the way they paid for everything else: out of the cash their businesses threw off. That habit is breaking.…
Mercedes Weighs 800 Million Euros in German Labor Cuts
In a meeting hall at Mercedes-Benz’s flagship plant in Sindelfingen, workers were told something management had been circling for months: producing cars in Germany has become too expensive. Mercedes-Benz is…
Home Insurers Built on Software Line Up for IPOs
For the better part of a decade, the story in American homeowners insurance ran in one direction: big carriers raising prices, dropping policies and pulling out of states where storms…
