Uber’s $15 Billion Delivery Hero Deal Clears Its First Hurdle
The endorsement arrived from Berlin with none of the hesitation that usually greets a takeover. Delivery Hero’s supervisory board and its management board on Wednesday jointly declared Uber’s $15 billion…
Apple’s Tracking Rules Face a $2.7 Billion Test in London
Ann Pope spent most of her career on the other side of this argument. As a senior official at Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority, she helped lead the regulator’s examination…
Nvidia Buys Hugging Face, and Promises to Keep It Open
On the website where millions of programmers go to borrow other people’s models, the ownership is about to change. Nvidia said Thursday that it had agreed to acquire Hugging Face,…
Broadcom’s AI Semiconductor Boom, and the Forecast That Tripped It Up
On paper, it was a clean sweep. Broadcom reported quarterly results on Wednesday that beat Wall Street’s expectations on nearly every line, raised its target for next year’s artificial intelligence…
Meta’s Muse Voice Transcribe Listens While You Talk
Speech-to-text has usually worked on a delay. You talk, you stop, and only then does the machine catch up, processing the recording as one finished piece. Meta introduced a model…
KKR’s Helix Adds Two Veterans to Its $10 Billion AI Buildout
Running the next generation of data centers, the people who do it for a living like to say, is no longer mainly a problem of money or of chips. It…
Microsoft Puts a Number on Azure
For more than a decade, the biggest unresolved arithmetic in technology earnings belonged to Microsoft. Investors knew how fast Azure grew. They did not know how big it was. Every…
KEPCO Asks Samsung and SK Hynix to Prepay $18 Billion for the Grid
The proposal is now sitting with two of South Korea’s most valuable companies. Korea Electric Power Corp., the state-owned utility known as KEPCO, has asked Samsung Electronics to prepay 20…
Nscale Discloses $103 Billion in Contracted Revenue, With an IPO Possible This Month
Nscale, the British cloud-computing provider backed by Nvidia, has told prospective investors that its contracted revenue has grown to about $103 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, and…
Meta Tells Engineers AI Usage Won’t Decide Their Ratings
Meta Platforms has told its engineers that how much they use artificial intelligence will no longer determine how they are rated. In an internal memo this week updating expectations for…
