Broadcom and Apple Extend Chip Pact to 2031, Adding Custom Silicon
CUPERTINO, Calif. — The handshake between two of Silicon Valley’s most secretive companies just got longer. Broadcom said Monday that it has renewed its chip supply agreement with Apple through…
SpaceX Joins Nasdaq-100, Bringing Billions in Index Demand
The exchange-traded funds that track the Nasdaq-100 are about to become involuntary shareholders in the world’s most valuable rocket company. SpaceX will be added to the index on July 7,…
SpaceX Locks Musk’s Shares Until 2027
Buried in the fine print of SpaceX’s IPO filing is a date that will shape the company’s trading for a year: June 2027. According to the filing, first reported by…
ASML’s Chief Tells Brussels to Stay Out of Chip Plans
In a Reuters interview published over the weekend, ASML’s chief executive delivered a message to Brussels that investors rarely hear from a European industrial leader: stop trying to direct strategic…
Bending Spoons Surges 40% in Nasdaq Debut
The ticker was unfamiliar to most traders, but the opening print was not: shares of Bending Spoons, an Italian software company that few Americans had heard of a year ago,…
Meta Tells Staff Its AI Agents Are Behind Target
In an internal meeting in the first week of July, Meta executives delivered a message to employees that the company’s public statements had only hinted at: development of AI agents…
AI Takes Half of New Unicorn Roster
The numbers from the first half of 2026, compiled by data providers and reported by TechCrunch, tell a simple story: nearly 90 companies crossed the $1 billion valuation threshold for…
Microsoft Creates Frontier Unit to Install AI Inside Corporate Operations
Satya Nadella has a name for the part of artificial intelligence that never makes it into a keynote demo: the last mile. Microsoft’s chief executive moved this week to close…
U.S. Lifts Export Restrictions on Anthropic’s Claude Models
The models had been on the list for months. The Trump administration has lifted export restrictions on Anthropic’s flagship Claude models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, according to CNBC, clearing…
OpenAI Offers U.S. Government 5% Stake in Exchange for GPT-5.6 Approval
The proposal landed days after the request to delay. Sam Altman has offered the U.S. government a 5% stake in OpenAI as a “national interest safeguard,” in exchange for a…
