Celero Raises $275 Million as the Wiring Between AI Chips Becomes Big Business
The pattern is by now familiar in artificial intelligence: a startup working on an unglamorous layer of the stack raises money from some of the most glamorous names in finance.…
Apple Quietly Bought a Neural-Sensing Chip Startup, and the Paper Trail Just Surfaced
The acquisition was never announced, and Apple declined to comment when asked. The details emerged instead from a European filing, the kind of administrative disclosure that corporate acquirers rarely court…
SK Hynix Shares Surge 8 Percent as Analysts Warn the Memory Shortage Is Worsening
The rally in Seoul on Tuesday had the feel of a market confirming what it already suspected. SK Hynix shares climbed about 8 percent, leading a broad advance in memory…
Volkswagen Sells Its Osnabruck Plant to a Future of Air-Defense Manufacturing
The plant at Osnabruck has built cars for 125 years, outliving wars, economic crises and the reorganizations of the company that owns it. On Monday Volkswagen reached a preliminary agreement…
Stoke Space Raises $1 Billion to Chase a Reusability Feat No Rocket Has Achieved
The company’s pitch to investors has been the same since its founding: build a rocket where everything comes back. On Tuesday Stoke Space announced the funding to keep pursuing that…
Corning and Verizon Agree to a Multi-Billion-Dollar Fiber Deal for the AI Era
The order book for glass has been filling up with names from the computing industry. On Tuesday the buyer was a phone company. Corning said it has reached a multiyear…
Google’s European Search Redesign Goes Live, and the Company Admits the Cost
The deadline fell on Tuesday, and Google marked it by doing what regulators had demanded. The European Commission fined the company €460 million over its search practices and gave it…
ASML’s High-NA EUV Machines Hit 1 Million Wafers as Intel, TSMC and Samsung Line Up
The count was measured in wafers, and it took longer than the optimists predicted. Intel Foundry and ASML said Tuesday that High-NA EUV lithography equipment has now processed more than…
Anthropic Walks Away From Decart Deal After Due Diligence
The courtship had the shape of a decisive move: an AI company with a war chest, a startup with technology that could cut the cost of running models, and a…
Qualcomm and Amazon Join Forces on Custom AI Chips, With Warrants Tied to a $60 Billion Prize
The two companies have circled each other for years, Amazon as a customer for Qualcomm’s wireless chips and Qualcomm as an outsider to the custom silicon business that Amazon’s cloud…
