Morgan Stanley Opens Its Wealth Machine to AI Agents
The memo, when it came, was short and the implications were long. Morgan Stanley told its wealth management division that AI agents would be introduced into client outreach — the…
TSMC’s Capacity Ceiling Hands ASML Europe’s Crown
The words came out of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. in a form the industry rarely hears: an admission of limits. Asked how much more demand the world’s most important foundry…
Jensen Huang Called to Testify as NVIDIA’s Roadmap Accelerates
The invitation arrived from Elizabeth Warren’s office, and it puts NVIDIA’s chief executive in a position he has spent years avoiding: answering for his company’s sales in China, under oath,…
Meta’s Data Centers Get a Tent Upgrade
The satellite images show what look like enormous white structures rising outside New Albany, Ohio. City permits identify them as rapid deployment structures, which is Meta’s polite term for what…
Microsoft and NVIDIA Draft a Standard for AI Agents
At Microsoft’s Build conference, the two companies did not just announce products. They announced a division of labor. NVIDIA will supply the acceleration layer — the GPUs and the software…
Apple Opens Messages to an AI Agent and Puts Its Glasses On
The startup is called Poke, and it has done something no other company has managed: get an AI agent approved to run on Apple’s Messages for Business platform. The approval,…
Alphabet Raises $85 Billion to Feed Google’s AI Buildout
The announcement on June 1 was the largest equity raise Alphabet has ever attempted. Two days later, after the underwritten portion was oversubscribed, the company upsized it. Bloomberg reported the…
Anthropic Makes Its IPO Case as OpenAI Rushes Its Own Silicon
The question came up in the first minutes of the meeting, and Daniela Amodei did not flinch. When will the billions spent on AI models produce returns? Anthropic’s president, pitching…
SpaceX Prices Its IPO at $1.77 Trillion
The price was fixed, no range, and the room was told so up front. At the SpaceX investor roadshow in midtown Manhattan this week, the screen showed $135 a share,…
Broadcom’s Record Quarter Rattles Chip Investors
The report was, by any ordinary measure, exceptional. Broadcom posted revenue of $22.19 billion for its fiscal second quarter, up 48% from a year earlier. AI semiconductor revenue hit $10.8…
