Bill Ackman moves into Microsoft, with the size to be disclosed today
Bill Ackman moves into Microsoft, with the size to be disclosed today

Pershing Square has taken a new position in Microsoft, with the size to be disclosed in a 13F filing later on Friday. The stock is down roughly 16% year-to-date. Bill Ackman has bought Microsoft. Pershing Square’s chief executive said on X on Friday mo…

Multiverse raises $70m at a $2.1bn valuation to push its AI-adoption pitch across Europe
Multiverse raises $70m at a $2.1bn valuation to push its AI-adoption pitch across Europe

The round, led by Schroders Capital, follows January’s acquisition of Berlin-based StackFuel and 50% year-on-year revenue growth. Customers include the AA, Babcock, and Capital. Multiverse, the London-based AI- and tech-upskilling platform founded by E…

Federal judge holds back on Anthropic’s $1.5bn author settlement
Federal judge holds back on Anthropic’s $1.5bn author settlement

A federal judge in San Francisco wanted more detail on lawyers’ fees and lead-plaintiff payments before signing off on what would be the largest copyright settlement in US history. A federal judge in San Francisco declined on Thursday to give final app…

Samsung offers to talk; the union says June, after the strike
Samsung offers to talk; the union says June, after the strike

The company dropped its preconditions on Friday. The NSEU said it would hear new offers from 7 June, three days after the planned 18-day walkout ends. Samsung Electronics asked its largest union on Friday to come back to the bargaining table without co…

Chip export controls were not a major topic in Beijing, US Trade Rep Greer says
Chip export controls were not a major topic in Beijing, US Trade Rep Greer says

Greer told Bloomberg TV the bilateral did not address chip controls, even as Reuters reported the Trump administration cleared Nvidia H200 sales to several Chinese firms after the Xi meeting. Semiconductor export controls were not a major topic at this…

Jury deliberations to begin in OpenAI nonprofit trial after Musk skips closing for Beijing
Jury deliberations to begin in OpenAI nonprofit trial after Musk skips closing for Beijing

Three weeks of testimony in Judge Gonzalez Rogers’s Oakland courtroom end with Musk in Beijing on Trump’s state-visit delegation and deliberations beginning Monday. Closing arguments in Musk v. Altman wrapped on Thursday afternoon in Judge Yvonne Gonza…

Figma’s numbers say AI is a tailwind. Its stock price says the market isn’t sure.
Figma’s numbers say AI is a tailwind. Its stock price says the market isn’t sure.

  For ten months, Figma has been a case study in how quickly Wall Street can fall out of love. The company went public on 31 July 2025 at $33 a share, soared past $140 on its debut, and has spent most of 2026 in freefall,  battered by Google’s free Sti…

Thrive Capital bets $100 million on Shopify, because sometimes the best AI trade is a beaten-down stock
Thrive Capital bets $100 million on Shopify, because sometimes the best AI trade is a beaten-down stock

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has taken a roughly $100 million stake in Shopify, according to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter. The investment is notable less for its size, $100 million is a rounding error in a firm that raised …

Palantir’s numbers are working. For the first time, the story is not.
Palantir’s numbers are working. For the first time, the story is not.

  Alex Karp has spent the past fortnight telling anyone who will listen that Palantir Technologies is indispensable. Retail investors and the German military have arrived at the opposite conclusion, and their timing is almost perfectly synchronised. In…

OpenAI is preparing to sue Apple over a partnership that was supposed to be the next Google search deal
OpenAI is preparing to sue Apple over a partnership that was supposed to be the next Google search deal

  OpenAI’s partnership with Apple, announced to considerable fanfare in June 2024, is fracturing. The AI company’s lawyers are actively working with an outside legal firm on options that could include sending Apple a formal notice alleging breach of co…