SK Hynix Unveils $28.6 Billion Buyback as AI Memory Boom Faces a Test
The announcement landed at 8 a.m. in Seoul, before the market opened, and for a few hours it worked. SK Hynix said Wednesday it would buy back and cancel about…
Nebius Plans $4.5 Billion Convertible Sale to Keep Pace in AI Cloud Race
Nebius Group said Wednesday it plans to raise $4.5 billion through a private placement of convertible senior notes, money it will use to build data centers and expand its AI…
Wall Street Starts Pricing a Tesla-SpaceX Union, One Rocket at a Time
The roadster has been delayed so often that its launch date has become a joke in car circles, but a former Tesla president said Wednesday that the delays are not…
Etched Doubles Its Valuation to $21 Billion as Investors Bet on a Niche Bet
Etched, a startup that makes chips specifically designed to run artificial-intelligence models, said Tuesday it has closed a $700 million funding round that values the company at $21 billion, double…
DOJ Probes a16z’s Board Seats at Two Rival Data Companies
The Justice Department has opened an investigation into Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s most influential venture firms, focusing on its presence on the boards of two competing data companies,…
Apple Concedes Ground on App Store as Regulators Chip Away at Services
The admission arrived inside the dense language of a securities filing, easy to miss and hard to overstate. Apple, for the first time, told investors that regulatory changes have forced…
Anthropic’s Annualized Revenue Tops $65 Billion as IPO Approaches
In routine investor briefings in late July, executives at Anthropic shared a number that would have seemed implausible two years ago: the company’s annualized revenue had crossed $65 billion, according…
Meta’s Off-Balance-Sheet AI Obligations Reach $420 Billion, Auditor Flags
Buried in Meta Platforms’ audited financials is a number that does not appear on the balance sheet: roughly $420 billion in AI-related obligations, according to an analysis by the Wall…
OpenAI’s Safety Team Disbanded, Company Says It Was a Reorganization
The Financial Times reported on Aug. 16 that OpenAI disbanded its Preparedness team, the unit charged with assessing catastrophic risks from AI models, at the end of July, folding its…
SpaceX Discloses Shareholder List as 319 Million Shares Come Free
SpaceX, in its latest regulatory filing, laid out who owns the rocket company, and the list reads like a roll call of the modern technology economy. Elon Musk holds 48.4%…
