Meta Puts AI Search at the Center of Facebook
For most of its two decades, the search bar at the top of Facebook has been one of the least useful tools on the internet. On Monday, Meta Platforms turned…
Salesforce to Acquire AI Customer-Service Firm Fin for $3.6 Billion
Eoghan McCabe built Intercom into one of the most recognizable names in customer-service software, then spent two years remaking it into an artificial-intelligence company. On Monday, Salesforce said it would…
Fox to Acquire Roku for $22 Billion in Streaming Gambit
Anthony Wood built Roku into the quiet gatekeeper of the American living room, the box that sits between viewers and nearly every streaming service they watch. On Monday, his company…
NVIDIA Returns to Bond Market With $20 Billion Sale
The last time NVIDIA sold bonds, most of its revenue still came from video games. On Monday, the chip maker filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise at…
Baron Capital Adds $1 Billion to SpaceX Stake as Shares Extend Rally
Ron Baron has spent the better part of a decade telling anyone who would listen that SpaceX would one day be the most valuable company on the planet. On Monday,…
Amazon CEO’s Washington Meetings Preceded Order to Disable Anthropic Models
The conversations took place in Washington this week, and their consequences reached the artificial-intelligence industry within days. Andy Jassy, Amazon’s chief executive, told senior officials in the Trump administration that…
SpaceX Keeps Rising After the Bell as Funds Rush to File
The second trading day ended, and SpaceX kept moving. In after-hours trading, shares changed hands at $166.76, up 23.5% from the $135 offering price, and the machinery of modern markets…
Musk Points to Tesla’s Next Chip as Robotaxi Questions Mount
The update arrived as a post on X, in the clipped language Mr. Musk uses for engineering status reports. Tesla’s AI6 chip, he said, is moving through engineering review and…
U.K. and Japan Sign $24 Billion Technology Pact
The signing table was set in London, and the two prime ministers put their names to an agreement worth more than £18 billion, or about $24 billion, covering artificial-intelligence research,…
History’s Biggest IPO Wave Carries a Familiar Warning
SpaceX’s record listing is done. Two more stand behind it in the queue, and the combined scale has no precedent. OpenAI is aiming at a $1 trillion valuation, and Anthropic…
