OPay Files for New York, With Loans Now Paying the Bills
The document that reached the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 9 describes a company most American investors have never used and tens of millions of Nigerians use every…
IMF Sees a Bond Market With Little Room for Error
The warning came from Bangkok, where more than 18,000 delegates had gathered for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and it was aimed at…
Bain’s Bridge Data Centres Moves Toward a $6.6 Billion Loan
The largest borrower in Asia’s data center build-out is not a technology company. It is a private equity firm’s real estate arm. Bridge Data Centres, owned by Bain Capital, is…
Three Frontier Labs Discussed AI Safety Without Saying So
The three companies that build the most capable artificial-intelligence models disagree in public about almost everything: how fast to release, how open to be, whose approach is safest. In private,…
Musk Vows Affordable Starlink in India, Days Before Jio’s Record Listing
Elon Musk’s pitch to Indian households arrived on X on Saturday, and it was not really aimed at them. “If Starlink is priced too high in India, nobody will buy…
Palantir Loses a British Police Contract After a Two-Year Pilot
Five British police forces have decided to step away from Palantir’s Foundry system after two years of testing it on criminal investigations, and they want proof the company has erased…
Two Chip Chiefs Say the AI Bottleneck Is Turning Into Money
The men who sell the chips say the thing holding back artificial intelligence may no longer be the chips. Broadcom chief executive Hock Tan and Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan,…
Amazon Nears a $7 Billion Deal for Decart, the Startup Anthropic Passed On
Decart’s pitch has been narrow and technical: software that makes it easier for developers to move the same model between different kinds of artificial intelligence chips, and models that generate…
Nvidia Widens Its Bet on Reflection AI to a Full Purchase
Nvidia has already written one large check to Reflection AI: about $800 million for a stake in a two-year-old lab that gives away its models and sells the enterprise service…
PC Processor Prices Climb as Intel, Qualcomm and AMD Pass Along Costs
The notices went out to PC makers in Taiwan first, which is how most of the industry learns what its components will cost. Intel raised prices on several families of…
