Samsung Electronics Union Plans Protests at Chairman’s Home Over Pay Gap
Samsung Electronics has settled its labor disputes at factory gates and in meeting rooms at its campus south of Seoul. The next fight is scheduled for a different address: the…
Berkshire Hathaway’s AI Bets: Power for Data Centers, Shares in Alphabet
Greg Abel does not expect Berkshire Hathaway to train a large language model. In an interview this week, Berkshire’s chief executive described a more mundane route into artificial intelligence, one…
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.…
A BASF Unit Sues Apple Over Face ID Patents in Texas
The technology that lets an iPhone owner unlock the device by looking at it is now the subject of a patent fight in a Texas federal court. trinamiX, a subsidiary…
Oura Files for an IPO as the Smart-Ring Market Moves From Wrists to Fingers
The next battlefield in wearable technology is not on the wrist. It is on the finger, and the company that made the finger’s most famous device is heading to the…
KEPCO Asks Samsung and SK Hynix to Prepay $18 Billion for the Grid
The proposal is now sitting with two of South Korea’s most valuable companies. Korea Electric Power Corp., the state-owned utility known as KEPCO, has asked Samsung Electronics to prepay 20…
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…
SpaceX Puts Starlink Veteran in Charge of AI Data Centers
SpaceX has put Michael Nicolls, a longtime Starlink executive, in charge of its AI data-center operations after a string of departures among the executives who built them, according to people…
Nestle Sells Its Mainstream Vitamin Business for $1 Billion
VEVEY, Switzerland—For most of the past decade, Nestle bought its way into vitamins. On Wednesday it agreed to sell the mainstream part of that business for $1 billion, the clearest…
Texas Pauses New Data-Center Hookups as Power Requests Swell
AUSTIN, Texas—The state that spent years inviting the world’s data centers to plug in has told the next ones to wait. Texas has become the first state to freeze new…
