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…
Disney Will Pay $60 Million a Year for 66 Character.AI Employees
Disney plans to pay $60 million a year in salaries to 66 employees hired from Character.AI, and has set aside a $30 million retention pool. Over three years the compensation…
CERN and Mistral Will Train a Physics Model on Collision Data
CERN already holds about one exabyte of data from the Large Hadron Collider, roughly a million terabytes of recorded collisions. On October 15 the laboratory signed a letter of intent…
Salesforce Wins a Tax Authority Contract Worth Up to 2 Billion Pounds
Salesforce was named strategic enterprise customer relationship management supplier to HM Revenue and Customs on October 15 under a contract running up to 15 years and worth as much as…
Netflix Replaces Its Content Chief and Cuts Nearly a Thousand Jobs
Netflix named Peter Rice, a former Disney executive, as chief content officer on October 15, replacing Bela Bajaria. The appointment takes effect on October 26, and Mr. Rice will oversee…
Google and Brussels Discuss Remedies for a 890 Million Euro Antitrust Bill
Google and the European Commission are discussing how the company will change its products to remedy the conduct behind two antitrust decisions that together produced a fine of about 890…
Google Adds CNN to Its News Licensing Deals and Passes 400 Partners
CNN and Google signed a multiyear agreement on October 15 under which the network will provide enhanced content licensing to the company and the two will explore how generative artificial…
Britain Moves to Designate Microsoft’s Software Ecosystem for Special Scrutiny
About 20 million people in Britain use Microsoft’s business software every month. That figure is why the country’s competition regulator proposed on October 16 to designate the company’s commercial software…
