Europe’s Largest Pension Fund Writes Its First Check to a Homegrown Tech Bet
ABP, the pension fund for Dutch government and education workers, is the biggest retirement pool in the Netherlands and one of the largest on earth. So when it announced on…
An AI Scorekeeper’s Valuation Doubles in Ten Months
The most expensive companies in artificial intelligence sell capability. Arena sells a smaller product: a way to tell whether that capability is real. On October 8, the evaluation platform closed…
Oracle’s Debt Load Passes $169 Billion as It Chases More AI Chips
The number is now large enough that it is hard to ignore. Oracle, the cloud company that has transformed itself into a landlord for artificial-intelligence computing, has interest-bearing debt above…
Eleven Companies Pledge $2.4 Billion in Computing to a U.S. Science Push
The pledges came one after another at a White House summit, each a round number attached to a familiar name. By the end of October 8, eleven technology companies had…
Samsung Locks Up Nearly 80% of Next Year’s Memory Supply
The memory-chip business used to run on quarterly haggling, with buyers and sellers meeting to settle prices every few months and leaving the rest to the spot market. That model…
GlobalFoundries to Build a Key Chip-Packaging Part for TSMC in New York
The part is small, flat and unglamorous, a thin slice of silicon that no consumer ever sees. It is also one of the reasons the world’s AI accelerators cannot be…
U.S. Suspends Microsoft and Adobe From Green-Card Labor Program
The notice arrived without fanfare, and it landed on two of the most valuable companies in America. On October 8, the U.S. Department of Labor suspended Microsoft and Adobe from…
Google Gives Gemini a Job, and Waymo Borrows $5 Billion
Google spent Wednesday making the same argument twice: that its AI is ready to go to work. At a cloud event, the company showed a unified Gemini agent that takes…
SoftBank’s Son Wants $100 Billion From the Gulf for AI
Masayoshi Son has gone back to the place that funded his last big gamble. In recent weeks the SoftBank founder has been in contact with investors in the Gulf, including…
The AI Debt Pile Grows to $150 Billion and Counting
The queue for borrowed money got longer this week, and the names in it told the story. SpaceX, Broadcom and Oracle all moved within days of one another, each raising…
