Google to Pay SpaceX $920 Million a Month for Compute
The disclosure landed in a regulatory filing on a Friday afternoon, one week before the largest initial public offering in history. Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month from…
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…
Tencent Keeps Buying as Southbound Funds Back SMIC
The filing landed with the routine precision of a machine that never stops. On June 5, Tencent Holdings reported to the Hong Kong exchange that it had bought back 1,092,000…
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…
Apple Puts a $1.4 Trillion Number on Its App Economy
Tim Cook let the numbers do the talking, and the figure he wants the world to remember is $1.4 trillion. In a statement released on Apple’s website, the company said…
Google Cloud’s Quiet Cuts Reach Its Elite Threat Hunters
The notice arrived after dark. Andrew Kopcienski, a principal threat intelligence analyst at Google, wrote on LinkedIn that he had been laid off “alongside a lot of other great folks…
