Foxconn Buys Half of Mitsubishi Electric’s Car-Parts Business
Foxconn said on October 16 that its investment arm Lin Yin had signed an agreement to acquire 50 percent of Mitsubishi Electric Mobility from Mitsubishi Electric for 115 billion yen,…
Intel’s Chief Says Washington Holds 8.2% and Stays Out of the Room
Intel Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan said the U.S. government has not used its minority stake to shape company decisions, an assertion that answers a question Intel’s customers have been asking…
Samsung Sets a November Groundbreaking for Its Second Texas Fab
TAYLOR, Texas—The second building on Samsung Electronics’ chip campus here will cover about 2.7 million square feet, half again the size of the first, a figure the company disclosed on…
TSMC’s Second Kumamoto Fab Will Build 3-Nanometer Chips at a Fraction of the Planned Scale
In Kikuyo, a town on the plain west of Kumamoto city, the second building on TSMC’s Japanese site has been rising next to the first for more than a year.…
Anthropic Takes a Draft AI Safety Bill to Congress, With a $1 Billion Trigger
On Capitol Hill, the folders that circulate in the office buildings along Independence Avenue are usually written by committee staff. A set of them that moved through meetings over the…
Anthropic Signs Its First Canadian Data Center Lease: 420 Megawatts for 20 Years
Point Tupper is a deep-water site on the Strait of Canso, in Cape Breton, where a pulp mill once ran and where the wind now blows hard enough that the…
Anthropic’s $60 Billion Chip Deal Carries a 10% Coupon and Sets a Benchmark for AI Debt
The term sheet that reached credit investors this week carried a number more often associated with a troubled retailer than with a company selling subscriptions to a chatbot. For 60…
SoftBank Weighs an $18 Billion Bet on the Business of Guarding Data Centers
At a data-center campus outside Dallas, the overnight shift begins with a handover that has changed little in decades: a clipboard, a radio check, a walk along the fence line.…
Amazon’s Bee Adds Two Personal AI Devices Starting at $75
Amazon’s Bee released two wearable AI devices on October 15, priced at $74.99 and $99.99, the first update to the product line since Amazon acquired the company in July 2025.…
Brussels Prepares Fast Approval for a European Satellite Venture
The European Commission is preparing to grant rapid antitrust approval to a satellite joint venture underpinned by the IRIS squared constellation, according to a Bloomberg report on October 15, after…
