Larry Ellison has been absent from Oracle’s earnings calls this year and is not on the billing for next month’s user conference, a year after the company promoted Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to co-chief executives. Magouyrk built the cloud business …
Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10bn in Anthropic’s initial public offering, which seeks as much as $100bn at a valuation near $2trn and would be the largest listing in history. Three days earlier it returned as an investor in Mistral’s EUR 3bn rou…
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is weighing a merger of Electronic Arts with Savvy Games, which would put Madden NFL and Pokemon Go under one roof. Brussels cleared the EA takeover on competition and foreign subsidy grounds six weeks ago, and com…
The HERE-SBD EV Index finds positive American perceptions of charging infrastructure rose from 28% to 47% in a year, and 60% now expect it to keep improving, even as US battery-electric market share fell to 5.37%. HERE is headquartered in Amsterdam and…
Dynamic Creatures, a Boston Dynamics spinoff, has launched to build robots for theme parks and retail, writing software and buying hardware from Unitree, AgiBot and Boston Dynamics. Europe’s Machinery Regulation covers AI safety functions from January …
Reid Hoffman says he is joining Mosaic Ventures, a London seed and Series A firm that now describes AI in Europe as its sole focus, as an advisory partner. His stated contribution is US connectivity from Silicon Valley, meaning talent, company connecti…
A stretch of Argentina that mostly exports wind, gas and sheep is being pitched to the companies building AI infrastructure, and some of them are listening. Developers and energy firms are courting hyperscalers for data centre projects across Patagonia…
Volkswagen’s supervisory board unanimously approved cutting a further 50,000 jobs, bringing planned reductions to 100,000, and left four German plants without secured production from 2031 to 2034. Half that board represents the workforce and Lower Saxo…
New Jersey has legalised plug-in balcony solar up to 1,200W, barring local governments from requiring approvals and stopping landlords from blocking installation. Germany wrote the same right into its civil code in October 2024 and now has 1.31 million…
T-Mobile US chief executive Srini Gopalan declined to comment on a possible merger with parent Deutsche Telekom, days after Elliott built a stake to oppose it. A full combination would put the holding company outside Germany and cut the German state an…