Saudi AI Firm Humain Seeks a $2.5 Billion Fund for Data Centers
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has spent years buying artificial-intelligence capacity from abroad. Now one of its own companies wants to build the financing machinery to create it at home.…
TSMC Keeps HBM on Microbumps as Hybrid Bonding Slips
The message went out to suppliers in recent weeks: keep the development lines pointed at microbumps. TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, has decided to hold off on investing in…
Anthropic’s Sprint to an IPO, and the Record It Wants to Break
When Anthropic’s chief financial officer sat down with prospective investors in August, the questions were not about whether the company would go public. They were about how big the offering…
Washington Sides With OpenAI in the Copyright Fight Over AI Training
At the federal courthouse in Manhattan, where The New York Times is suing OpenAI over the articles its reporters wrote, the government has picked a side. On Wednesday the Trump…
Uber’s $15 Billion Delivery Hero Deal Clears Its First Hurdle
The endorsement arrived from Berlin with none of the hesitation that usually greets a takeover. Delivery Hero’s supervisory board and its management board on Wednesday jointly declared Uber’s $15 billion…
Apple’s Tracking Rules Face a $2.7 Billion Test in London
Ann Pope spent most of her career on the other side of this argument. As a senior official at Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority, she helped lead the regulator’s examination…
Nvidia Buys Hugging Face, and Promises to Keep It Open
On the website where millions of programmers go to borrow other people’s models, the ownership is about to change. Nvidia said Thursday that it had agreed to acquire Hugging Face,…
Broadcom’s AI Semiconductor Boom, and the Forecast That Tripped It Up
On paper, it was a clean sweep. Broadcom reported quarterly results on Wednesday that beat Wall Street’s expectations on nearly every line, raised its target for next year’s artificial intelligence…
Meta’s Muse Voice Transcribe Listens While You Talk
Speech-to-text has usually worked on a delay. You talk, you stop, and only then does the machine catch up, processing the recording as one finished piece. Meta introduced a model…
KKR’s Helix Adds Two Veterans to Its $10 Billion AI Buildout
Running the next generation of data centers, the people who do it for a living like to say, is no longer mainly a problem of money or of chips. It…
