There’s nothing like an earth-changing new technology to get the tech industry’s dealmaking juices flowing. That’s been good news and bad news for bankers, who have pocketed fees but have been boxed out of some of the biggest deals. We’ve pulled together a list of the bankers who have led the way on artificial intelligence dealmaking. The winners include people from boutique firms such as Qatalyst Partners and Centerview Partners... Read more ›
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If you’ve ever wondered why Apple has never bought a TV giant like Warner Bros. Discovery, just look at the minidrama over its upcoming Apple TV+ thriller “The Savant.” Apple this week delayed release of the show, about a “top-secret undercover investigator known as the Savant, who infiltrates online hate groups to take down the most violent extremists,” prompting a rebuke on X today from its star, Jessica Chastain.Apple hasn’t... Read more ›
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Oracle raised $18 billion in a debt offering that was upsized from an earlier $15 billion target due to strong demand, said a person familiar with the deal. The offering includes bonds maturing as far out as 40 years from now, a rarity in the debt markets. The largest portion maturing in 2035 ... Read more ›
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Intel has approached Apple to seek an investment, Bloomberg reported, as part of the struggling chipmaker’s efforts to shore up its business. Shares of Intel rose more than 6% after the report, while Apple shares fell less than 1% Wednesday. Intel representatives declined to comment. Apple didn’ ... Read more ›
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The judge overseeing an antitrust case over Google’s ad tech operations, Leonie Brinkema, signaled skepticism on Wednesday about whether Google should be forced to divest part of its ad tech business. Her comments came on the third day of a hearing considering how to overhaul Google’s ... Read more ›
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Alibaba Group’s share price rose more than 9% on Wednesday, after the Chinese tech giant announced a slew of artificial intelligence related developments in a conference. The company released the 1 trillion-parameter Qwen3-Max, the latest addition to the Qwen suite of large-language models. It’s ... Read more ›
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Fermi America, a data center site developer founded by former Energy Secretary Rick Perry, is targeting a roughly $13 billion valuation in its initial public offering on the Nasdaq exchange. Founded this year by Perry and others, Fermi has no revenue. It is aiming to build and power the ... Read more ›
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The race to develop personal AI devices is in full swing. Meta’s announcement of a new line of smart glasses with a built-in AI assistant is the latest example of tech giants and ambitious startups trying to transform AI into the next personal device after the smartphone. We asked Deep Research to create a comprehensive report on the topic. Read more ›
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When Dan Lahav was in grade school, he became obsessed with the short stories of Isaac Asimov, where robots gain sentience and trick humans into relinquishing control of society. Today he spends his time prodding artificial intelligence to do just that. Lahav is CEO of Irregular, a two-year-old startup that specializes in testing AI models’ capacity for malice. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind have hired Irregular, which was previously named... Read more ›
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After Meta Platforms bought nearly half of the data labelling startup Scale AI and hired its co-founder Alexandr Wang and other key employees, Scale’s future looked uncertain. Even more so after the nine-year old startup laid off 200 employees and customer OpenAI wound down its work with the company.Now, we’re getting a sense of how Scale’s business could evolve in the coming years. It’s continuing to develop AI applications and... Read more ›
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DataBank, a data center developer backed by DigitalBridge and Australia’s superannuation fund, raised $1.1 billion in the first data center asset-backed securities offering to be given a credit rating by Moody’s. The financing is more evidence that major credit rating agencies are getting ... Read more ›
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Cloudflare, which says it powers 20% of the world’s internet traffic, on Wednesday announced a new feature that it said will enable website owners to block Google’s AI Overviews search product without having to opt out of being included in Google search. The feature, if effective, could ... Read more ›
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The U.S. artificial intelligence sector is so crowded with Chinese researchers that some joke the global AI race is between two groups of Chinese—those in the U.S. and those in China. That joke may soon feel a bit stale. A growing number of Chinese AI researchers and doctorate students in the U.S. are seriously considering moving back to China, concerned about discrimination and the immigration restrictions Donald Trump’s administration is... Read more ›
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Nvidia and OpenAI are in discussions to structure their massive artificial intelligence data center partnership around an unconventional business model: OpenAI would lease Nvidia’s AI chips rather than purchasing them outright, The Information reported. The potential arrangement is an ... Read more ›
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Hey, ChatGPT, can you explain this artificial intelligence disconnect? In a blog post today, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, “Growth in the use of AI services has been astonishing.” Meanwhile, countless news reports cite businesses who say they’ve yet to see enough benefit in AI to pay for it. We reported last week, for instance, that Microsoft was having a hard time persuading its customers that AI features in Office... Read more ›
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Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, is in early talks with investors to raise between $15 billion and $20 billion in exchange for about 3% stake, Bloomberg reported, citing two people familiar with the matter. Tether’s U.S. CEO, Bo Hines, former White House crypto adviser, told ... Read more ›
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OpenAI and Nvidia are discussing an unusual way to structure their new artificial intelligence data center partnership, under which OpenAI would lease Nvidia’s AI chips rather than buying them, according to two people who spoke to executives at the companies about it. The discussion shows how Nvidia is considering new business models to sell its products to customers that are less proven and would struggle to buy the chips on... Read more ›
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Microsoft is preparing to launch a new marketplace that would let makers of AI products pay U.S. publishers for content that the AI products surface, Axios reported on Tuesday. The company is preparing to launch a pilot program that will pay certain publishers for content that’s used by ... Read more ›
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The Trump administration’s announcement that it would start charging $100,000 for foreign workers applying for new H-1B visas sent a shock wave through the ranks of startups and their investors over the weekend. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan and Menlo Ventures’ Deedy Das have warned the fees will give large tech companies an even bigger advantage over young ones. Several founders and investors say they’ll shift their hiring plans to... Read more ›
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Stripe is in talks to buy back shares from investors at a price that values the payments company at $106.7 billion, Axios reported. The company recently valued itself at that level, in what’s known as a 409A valuation, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The price eclipses ... Read more ›
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