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Technology business coverage, including IPOs, acquisitions, company strategy, venture funding, public-market technology companies, platform economics, and the business models behind major tech products.
Google’s Constellation Nuclear Deal: What the 3.59 GW Figure Really Means
Google and Constellation signed agreements covering 3.59 GW in PJM, but only 890 MW is planned new nuclear capacity. Here is how the uprates, supply contract and Gemini work differ.
Paramount Closes Warner Bros. Deal: What Changes for HBO Max and Paramount+
Paramount’s Warner Bros. Discovery deal is closed and HBO Max and Paramount+ will eventually become one service. Here is what changes now, what does not, and what subscribers should watch.
AMD’s $8.2B World Labs Deal Is a Bet on AI Beyond Language
AMD is buying Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion. The strategic prize is a model lab that can shape future chips, robotics simulation, and the physical AI stack.
Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse, Exposing AI Shopping’s Permission Problem
Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse from shopping on its site, exposing unresolved rules around agent identity, merchant consent, credentials, and checkout.
Claude for Financial Advisors Turns Wealth AI Into a Workflow Test
Anthropic and Charles Schwab are bringing Claude into registered investment advisor workflows through connectors, skills, audit logs, and approval gates. The launch is a useful test of whether wealth-management AI can handle regulated work without turning financial advice into a chatbot free-for-all.
Dell’s $95B AI Server Backlog Turns Compute Demand Into a Delivery Test
Dell reported $60.9 billion in AI server orders, $16.4 billion in AI-optimized server revenue, and a $95 billion backlog in its fiscal second quarter. The numbers show how AI infrastructure demand is moving from GPU hype into a harder test of supply chains, racks, storage, networking, and delivery schedules.
John Ternus Takes Over Apple Before Its Next AI Hardware Test
John Ternus becomes Apple CEO on September 1, 2026, days before Apple’s September 9 event. The transition puts a longtime hardware engineer in charge as Apple tries to turn Siri AI, Apple Intelligence, and new device design into a more convincing AI-era product strategy.
Stability AI’s $76M Round Makes Creative Rights Part of the AI Stack
Stability AI raised $76 million from entertainment and technology backers including Electronic Arts, Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, AMD Ventures, and Pacific Alliance Ventures. The funding shows how creative AI is moving from open-model distribution toward licensed, workflow-specific tools for music, games, marketing, and studios.
Thomson Reuters’ Own AI Model Tests the Economics of Specialized Models
Thomson Reuters launched Thomson, a proprietary AI model built from open-weight foundations and trained for legal, tax, accounting, and professional work. The launch is a useful test of whether companies with deep data and expert reviewers can own the parts of AI that matter most instead of renting every frontier capability from a general model provider.
NVIDIA’s Ohio Backstop Turns OpenAI’s Data Center Demand Into Infrastructure Finance
NVIDIA is investing $1.5 billion in SB Energy and backing land, power, and shell capacity for OpenAI's planned PORTS-Pike AI data center in Ohio. The deal shows how frontier AI demand is pushing chipmakers deeper into power, real estate, financing, and local infrastructure.