Anthropic Signs Its First Canadian Data Center Lease: 420 Megawatts for 20 Years
Point Tupper is a deep-water site on the Strait of Canso, in Cape Breton, where a pulp mill once ran and where the wind now blows hard enough that the…
Anthropic’s $60 Billion Chip Deal Carries a 10% Coupon and Sets a Benchmark for AI Debt
The term sheet that reached credit investors this week carried a number more often associated with a troubled retailer than with a company selling subscriptions to a chatbot. For 60…
SoftBank Weighs an $18 Billion Bet on the Business of Guarding Data Centers
At a data-center campus outside Dallas, the overnight shift begins with a handover that has changed little in decades: a clipboard, a radio check, a walk along the fence line.…
Amazon’s Bee Adds Two Personal AI Devices Starting at $75
Amazon’s Bee released two wearable AI devices on October 15, priced at $74.99 and $99.99, the first update to the product line since Amazon acquired the company in July 2025.…
Brussels Prepares Fast Approval for a European Satellite Venture
The European Commission is preparing to grant rapid antitrust approval to a satellite joint venture underpinned by the IRIS squared constellation, according to a Bloomberg report on October 15, after…
Disney Will Pay $60 Million a Year for 66 Character.AI Employees
Disney plans to pay $60 million a year in salaries to 66 employees hired from Character.AI, and has set aside a $30 million retention pool. Over three years the compensation…
CERN and Mistral Will Train a Physics Model on Collision Data
CERN already holds about one exabyte of data from the Large Hadron Collider, roughly a million terabytes of recorded collisions. On October 15 the laboratory signed a letter of intent…
Salesforce Wins a Tax Authority Contract Worth Up to 2 Billion Pounds
Salesforce was named strategic enterprise customer relationship management supplier to HM Revenue and Customs on October 15 under a contract running up to 15 years and worth as much as…
Netflix Replaces Its Content Chief and Cuts Nearly a Thousand Jobs
Netflix named Peter Rice, a former Disney executive, as chief content officer on October 15, replacing Bela Bajaria. The appointment takes effect on October 26, and Mr. Rice will oversee…
Google and Brussels Discuss Remedies for a 890 Million Euro Antitrust Bill
Google and the European Commission are discussing how the company will change its products to remedy the conduct behind two antitrust decisions that together produced a fine of about 890…
