SpaceX Buys National Airwaves and Rattles the Phone Giants
The announcement was short, the reaction swift. On Wednesday, SpaceX said it had agreed to buy a nationwide block of spectrum from Grain Management, a digital-infrastructure investor, and the shares…
Apple Sets a Deadline for Developers: Fit the Fold, or Miss Review
Apple’s first foldable phone does not reach customers until late October, but the company has already drawn the line for the people who make its software. Starting in April 2027,…
Apple Hands Its Deal-Making to a Longtime Deputy
For more than a decade, the executive Apple turned to when it wanted to buy a company was Adrian Perica. That arrangement quietly changed this week, when the company told…
Schneider Electric Bets $22.6 Billion on the Software Above the Factory Floor
Schneider Electric agreed to buy PTC, the American industrial-software maker, for $205 a share in cash, a deal that values the company’s equity at about $22.6 billion. The price is…
Samsung Puts a Dollar-Coin Wallet on 82 Million Phones
Samsung said it would fold U.S. dollar-coin transfers into its mobile wallet, a step that puts a form of crypto-based money in front of tens of millions of Americans who…
IBM Advances in a Pentagon Race to Build a Reliable Quantum Computer
The Pentagon has a simple question about quantum computers, and it has been asking it of the companies that build them: can you prove the machine actually works? IBM cleared…
Slovakia Moves to Clear Tesla’s Self-Driving Software
The approval is days away, and it will be granted quietly, in the administrative language of a government that few people outside the country follow closely. But when Slovakia formally…
SpaceX’s Push for Launch Spectrum Meets Boeing, Lockheed and Hospitals
The filing arrived at the Federal Communications Commission on October 7 carrying a number that would have sounded absurd a decade ago: ten thousand launches a year. To reach that…
The Engineer Behind Tesla’s Optimus Leaves to Build Different Robots
Ashish Kumar spent years teaching Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot how to think. Now he is leaving the human shape behind. Kumar has co-founded a San Francisco startup, Intelligent Machines, that…
Inside Nvidia, a Family Handoff Takes Shape Around Jensen Huang’s Children
The wedding was in Hawaii, a week and a half ago. The bride was Madison Huang, the daughter of Nvidia’s chief executive. The groom was Nico Caprett, a former professional…
