May Mobility Reaches a $1.4 Billion Deal to Go Public Via SPAC
May Mobility, an autonomous shuttle company, said on September 15 that it will go public by merging with ACP Holdings, a deal that values the company at about 1.4 billion…
IBM’s Anderon Clinches a $1 Billion Grant for a Quantum Foundry
Anderon, a company under IBM, said on September 16 that it has finalized a 1-billion-dollar award from the US Commerce Department under the CHIPS Act, money earmarked for a pure-play…
Tesla’s Texas Solar Plant Clears an Early Hurdle; Roadster Set for October
A school board in Fort Bend County, Texas, voted on September 16 to advance Tesla’s application for a 10-billion-dollar solar cell factory, pushing the project past its first local approval.…
Microsoft Raises Its Dividend as Azure Sales Top $100 Billion
Microsoft raised its quarterly dividend by 8 percent to 98 cents a share on September 15, a quiet increase that told investors the company’s cash machine is still turning. Buried…
Google Strikes Its Largest Carbon-Removal Deal and Settles a UK Suit
Google signed the largest carbon-removal agreement in its history on September 16, a deal in Brazil that Reuters reported will support a new model for pulling carbon dioxide out of…
Apple’s Warranty Fight in India Escalates, Over Screens and Software
The complaints started arriving after Apple pushed iOS 18 to iPhones in late 2024. Users reported green lines, pink lines, and white lines appearing on their screens, along with microphone…
Meta Expands Its Utah Data Center, and Sweetens the Deal for Neighbors
The town of Eagle Mountain sits on the western edge of the Wasatch Front, a place where houses have been climbing into the foothills for years. On September 14, Meta…
Waymo Opens for Business in Las Vegas, Then Books a 2027 Ticket to Tokyo
The first paid rides in Las Vegas started on September 14, when Waymo opened its robotaxi service to the public with a first batch of dozens of vehicles running its…
Salesforce and Nvidia Build a Model That Knows CRM but Never Saw Customer Data
At Dreamforce on September 15, Salesforce unveiled Koa, a model built for one narrow job: reasoning over the data that lives in a company’s customer-relationship system. The model runs on…
A $110 Billion Media Merger Heads to Settlement Talks
A federal magistrate judge ordered the parties in the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger dispute to sit down for two days of in-person settlement talks at the end of October. Magistrate…
