Samsung Puts a Dollar-Coin Wallet on 82 Million Phones
Samsung said it would fold U.S. dollar-coin transfers into its mobile wallet, a step that puts a form of crypto-based money in front of tens of millions of Americans who…
SpaceX’s Push for Launch Spectrum Meets Boeing, Lockheed and Hospitals
The filing arrived at the Federal Communications Commission on October 7 carrying a number that would have sounded absurd a decade ago: ten thousand launches a year. To reach that…
The AI Chip Boom Is Moving to the Bond Market
The companies spending the most on artificial intelligence are increasingly borrowing to pay for it. Broadcom Inc. is in talks to arrange financing of more than $50 billion to fund…
The Engineer Behind Tesla’s Optimus Leaves to Build Different Robots
Ashish Kumar spent years teaching Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot how to think. Now he is leaving the human shape behind. Kumar has co-founded a San Francisco startup, Intelligent Machines, that…
SpaceX’s Borrowing Costs Jump as Chip-Financing Talks Rattle Bondholders
The headline was about chips, and the reaction came from the bond market. After reports that SpaceX is in talks with banks and investors to borrow $40 billion to buy…
Microsoft Prices Its Nvidia-Backed Laptop at $2,599
For months, Microsoft’s most ambitious laptop existed mostly as a promise: a Windows machine built around an Nvidia chip, capable of running large AI models on the device itself, with…
OpenAI Names Cursor’s Europe Chief to Run Its EMEA Sales
Ismail Elmas will run OpenAI’s sales effort across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa from an office in Munich, a job that puts him in charge of the company’s push…
Sony Sells Its XR Patents to Meta
The paperwork moved quietly through the U.S. patent office between June and September. Forty-three American patent properties, filed by Sony over more than a decade, changed hands and landed with…
SpaceX Wins Approval for 15,000 Phone-Service Satellites
The order from the Federal Communications Commission ran long on technical language — spectrum bands, orbital altitudes, leasing rules. Buried in the middle was a sentence that framed the whole…
Microsoft and Nvidia Put a Data Center in a Laptop
The event had the feel of a summit more than a product launch. On a Tuesday morning in San Francisco, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella and Nvidia chief executive Jensen…
