Facebook and Instagram Go Dark for Two Hours in Meta’s Worst Outage of the Year
Just after midnight on Sunday, the feeds stopped. Facebook users trying to refresh saw error screens; Instagram opened to blank timelines. Within minutes, complaints were flooding DownDetector, and on X,…
TSMC Adds $100 Billion to U.S. Plans, Lifting Total to $265 Billion
The White House made it official on Thursday: TSMC will pour another $100 billion into American semiconductor manufacturing, on top of the $165 billion it had already pledged, for a…
Apple Names Ternus Chief Executive; Cook Stays as Chairman
The announcement arrived in a week that gave Apple four storylines at once. John Ternus, the hardware engineering chief who has become a fixture on Apple’s product launch stage, was…
ASML Raises 2026 Outlook and Expands Capacity as AI Demand Strains Lithography
ASML Holding NV raised its revenue forecast for 2026 and outlined plans to expand production capacity after reporting second-quarter results, a move Reuters said should ease worries that shortages of…
Founders Fund Hires Former OpenAI Executive, Signaling Talent War Reaches VC
Founders Fund, the venture firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has hired Ryan Beiermeister, a former OpenAI executive, to its investment team, according to TechCrunch. The move is the latest sign…
Intel and Alphabet Earnings Set Up as Referendum on AI Spending
Intel Corp. and Alphabet Inc. report earnings next week, and investors are treating the two results as the first real test of whether the money flooding into artificial-intelligence infrastructure is…
Ex-DeepMind Researcher Raises $55 Million With No Product and No Customers
A former DeepMind researcher has raised $55 million in a pre-seed round that values the company at $300 million, according to TechCrunch, before the startup has shipped a product, signed…
Uber to Buy Delivery Hero for $14.8 Billion, Nearly Doubling Food-Delivery Reach
Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to acquire German food-delivery company Delivery Hero SE for $14.8 billion, a deal that would expand Uber Eats’ footprint from 45 countries to more than…
EU Orders Google to Open Android and Search to AI Rivals
The European Commission has issued a binding corrective order requiring Google to open its Android operating system’s search data and default settings to AI search engines and conversational assistants, according…
Netflix Shares Slide 9% After Hours as Guidance Misses and Disclosure Narrows
Netflix Inc. shares fell about 9% in after-hours trading Thursday after the streaming company’s third-quarter revenue guidance came in well short of Wall Street’s expectations and the company said it…
