Amazon and Nvidia Put $1.4 Billion Into German Robot Maker Neura
Neura Robotics, a German company founded in 2019 by engineer David Reger, has closed a $1.4 billion Series C round with Amazon and Nvidia among the investors, according to people…
TSMC Flags Higher Prices as AI Demand Strains Its Lines
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract chip maker, is signaling that its customers should expect to pay more. Chief Financial Officer Wendell Huang said inflation has pushed up…
Warner Music Buys an AI-Tracing Startup to Track Its Catalog
Warner Music Group said Tuesday it has acquired Sureel AI, a company whose technology builds a unique “AI-DNA” signature for each piece of music and tracks how AI models use…
Global Smartwatch Shipments Rose 4.8% in the First Quarter
The smartwatch market is growing again, slowly. Worldwide wrist-worn device shipments reached 47.05 million units in the first quarter, up 2.2% from a year earlier, and smartwatches specifically totaled 37.03…
TSMC’s May Sales Rise 30% as AI Demand Holds
HSINCHU, Taiwan—The monthly revenue sheet Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. released Wednesday morning carried the number the market had been waiting for: May revenue of NT$416.98 billion, or about $13.2 billion,…
OpenAI Nears Lease on 10-Gigawatt Ohio Data Center
PIKETON, Ohio—The site along the Ohio River once enriched uranium for America’s nuclear arsenal. Within a decade, it could host the largest data center on earth, and OpenAI is negotiating…
Anthropic Brings Its Most Powerful Model to the Public
SAN FRANCISCO—The pricing page went live Tuesday with a number that told the story: $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens for Claude Fable 5, less…
Broadcom, Apollo and Blackstone Open $35 Billion AI Compute Fund
NEW YORK—The term sheet was unusual even by the standards of the AI boom: a chip designer, a private-equity firm built on insurance money and the world’s largest alternative asset…
Meta Leases First India Data Center From Reliance
JAMNAGAR, India—The city better known for the world’s largest oil refinery complex is about to become part of the AI supply chain. Meta Platforms said June 10 it will lease…
SK Hynix Targets U.S. Listing, Putting HBM Story to Wall Street Test
SEOUL—The world’s largest maker of high-bandwidth memory has traded in Seoul for decades. By August, its shares could also trade on the Nasdaq, a move that would give American investors…
