Abu Dhabi’s G42 Sounds Out Investors for Billions in New Capital
The conversations are exploratory, and the people describing them asked not to be named because the talks are confidential. G42, the Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence group, has held tentative discussions…
Nvidia Director Mark Stevens Sells $411 Million of Stock Over Three Days
The filing appeared in the usual place, and it was larger than most. Mark A. Stevens, a director of Nvidia since 2008, sold 1,848,500 shares of the chipmaker’s common stock…
KEPCO Asks Samsung and SK Hynix to Prepay $18 Billion for the Grid
The proposal is now sitting with two of South Korea’s most valuable companies. Korea Electric Power Corp., the state-owned utility known as KEPCO, has asked Samsung Electronics to prepay 20…
Meta’s Muse Voice Transcribe Listens While You Talk
Speech-to-text has usually worked on a delay. You talk, you stop, and only then does the machine catch up, processing the recording as one finished piece. Meta introduced a model…
Nvidia Buys Hugging Face, and Promises to Keep It Open
On the website where millions of programmers go to borrow other people’s models, the ownership is about to change. Nvidia said Thursday that it had agreed to acquire Hugging Face,…
Google’s Ad-Tech Business Survives, and the Remedy Is Under Seal
Judge Leonie Brinkema gave Google what it wanted, and something it will have to live with. On Wednesday, the federal judge in Virginia ruled that Google can keep its advertising-technology…
Apple’s Tracking Rules Face a $2.7 Billion Test in London
Ann Pope spent most of her career on the other side of this argument. As a senior official at Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority, she helped lead the regulator’s examination…
Tesla’s Cybercab Fleet Rolls Out on Austin Streets
The first videos appeared online Wednesday evening, shot by drivers and pedestrians who could not quite believe what they were seeing: two-seat cars moving through Austin traffic with no steering…
Zoox Brings Its Robotaxi to the Las Vegas Airport Curb
A traveler landing at Harry Reid International Airport now has an option that did not exist three weeks ago: a driverless car waiting near baggage claim. Zoox, the autonomous-driving company…
SpaceX Puts Starlink Veteran in Charge of AI Data Centers
SpaceX has put Michael Nicolls, a longtime Starlink executive, in charge of its AI data-center operations after a string of departures among the executives who built them, according to people…
