FTC and 22 States Sue Amazon Over Hidden Ad Auction ‘Soft Floor’
The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states sued Amazon on August 31, accusing the company of quietly rigging its advertising auctions for more than seven years and overcharging more than…
SoftBank’s SB Energy Files for IPO, Targeting $7 Billion Raise
SB Energy, the data center and energy infrastructure company controlled by SoftBank, filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on September 1, aiming to…
Google Signs Record 396-Megawatt Geothermal Deal With Fervo
On September 1, Fervo Energy and Google announced a 396-megawatt geothermal power agreement, the largest single geothermal contract either company has signed. The 15-year deal covers power from a project…
OpenAI’s Ad Business Passes $1 Billion Annualized Revenue
OpenAI disclosed on August 31 that its advertising business, ChatGPT Ads, has reached $1 billion in annualized revenue, a figure confirmed by CNBC and Reuters. The number is notable for…
a16z Expands Growth Fund to $8.5 Billion, Doubling Down on AI
Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s most influential venture firms, has expanded its fifth growth fund to $8.5 billion, adding $1.75 billion to the $6.75 billion the fund raised at…
Polymarket Raises $300 Million Led by Fund Tied to Trump’s Son
Polymarket, the prediction market platform that became famous during the 2024 U.S. election, has raised about $300 million in a funding round led by an investment fund associated with Donald…
Italian Buyout Firm Nextalia Closes 1.1 Billion Euros, Shunning the AI Crowd
The fundraising memo made no mention of artificial intelligence. For Nextalia, the Milan-based private equity firm, that was the point. The firm said this month that its second flagship buyout…
SB Energy Dangles $5.5 Billion in Warrants to Keep OpenAI as a Tenant
The filing reads less like an IPO prospectus and more like a courtship document. In the draft registration statement SB Energy submitted for its planned stock market debut, the SoftBank-owned…
Apple to Pay $250 Million to Settle Siri Advertising Claims
The advertisements were among the most polished Apple ever produced: a woman asking her phone to start a timer, a host asking Siri to queue up a recipe, a traveler…
SK Hynix CEO Sees Memory Shortage Running to 2030
In the cleanrooms where SK Hynix etches memory chips, the machines are running flat out, and the chief executive says they will be for years. Kwak Noh-jung, who runs the…
