Japan’s Bank Regulator Turns Its Gaze on Data-Center Loans
For two years, Japanese banks chasing yield have financed a building boom in AI data centers across Asia, North America and Europe. Now their own regulator is asking how much…
IonQ to Install First Quantum Processor at NVIDIA Center
The NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Research Center in Boston was built to pair quantum processors with supercomputers. It now has its first tenant. IonQ said its Superion 256, a 256-qubit machine,…
Amazon to Build $100 Million Robotics Plant in Indiana
The building sits at 1175 Collins Road in Greenwood, Indiana, just across the street from an Amazon fulfillment center off Interstate 65. Amazon bought it to make the machines that…
Databricks Buys Spreadsheet Startup Row Zero
The deal started the way a lot of software acquisitions do: with a customer who could not stop using the product. Inside Databricks, the finance team had begun running its…
Google Readies an AI Satellite, a New Model and a Driving Record
Google spent Sept. 24 making three announcements at once, and each one pointed in a different direction. The company confirmed that its first artificial-intelligence satellite would launch on Oct. 1,…
Musk Plans to Nearly Double Nvidia Chips at Memphis Supercomputer
Elon Musk laid out the next act of his computing buildup in a few spare sentences on X this week: the Colossus 2 data center outside Memphis, already the largest…
Oracle’s Force Majeure Notice Ripples Through AI Debt Markets
The notice Oracle sent on Wednesday was, on its face, a routine legal step. By Thursday, it had reached into the credit markets, dragged down a Japanese conglomerate’s shares, and…
OpenAI Readies a Security-Focused Model and a $500 Tier
OpenAI’s next model is not aimed at the mass market. It is aimed at the people paid to defend computer networks, and for the first time the company is building…
Meta’s Shares Climb to the Edge of a $2 Trillion Valuation
Six weeks ago, Meta Platforms was one of the worst-performing stocks in the S&P 500. On Thursday, the company stood less than 1 percent from a threshold only a handful…
Blue Origin Takes $10 Billion From Outside Investors for the First Time
For a quarter century, Jeff Bezos has funded Blue Origin almost entirely out of his own pocket, selling Amazon stock to keep the rocket company alive. On Wednesday, the company…
