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Joby flexes military muscle with $500 million defense acquisition

Joby Aviation announced it was acquiring Dayton, Ohio-based defense firm Resonant Sciences in a $500 million deal, in a bid by the electric aircraft company to expand further into the military industrial complex. Joby says it expects to finance the deal with $450 million in cash and $50 million in equity. After the deal closes, […]

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Amkor weighs a $1bn-plus stake sale in its China chip unit

Amkor Technology, one of the world’s largest outsourced chip assembly and testing firms, is weighing a sale of a stake in its China operations, a deal that could value the unit at between $1bn and $1.5bn, according to Bloomberg. The Arizona-based company, which has been pouring record sums into advanced packaging, has engaged an adviser to […]

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Germany’s Uniper pivots to data centres with a €5bn plan to power the AI boom

Uniper, the German energy giant that Berlin rescued from collapse three years ago, is betting its next chapter on the server racks now reshaping Europe’s power market. The utility plans to invest around €5bn ($5.7bn) by 2030 in a strategy that pivots hard toward data centres, and toward the electricity they consume in ever greater […]

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Anthropic signs a $9.1bn, 20-year cloud deal with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms

Anthropic has struck another enormous deal to feed its appetite for computing power, and this time the counterparty is a company that until recently made its money digging up bitcoin. The twenty-year arrangement is worth $9.1 billion and gives the Claude maker a large slab of capacity at a Texas campus that Riot Platforms is […]

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Intel raises up to $20bn to fund its foundry bet against TSMC

Intel has announced a $15bn common-stock offering, a sale that could swell to as much as $20bn if underwriters take up their overallotment options. It is a bold move for a company that, not long ago, looked like a cautionary tale, and it shows just how far the chipmaker’s fortunes have turned in the space […]

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Six finance giants back Nvidia’s $500bn plan to fund the AI buildout

Nvidia has recruited six of the largest names in finance to help turn its chips into something a bank can lend against. The company announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to build what it calls “compute financing platforms”, structures designed to mobilise over $500bn of third-party capital for AI infrastructure. […]

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Exclusive: Vienna’s fonio.ai hits $10m ARR less than a year after switching on subscriptions

Vienna startup most of the tech world has not heard of just posted numbers that would turn heads anywhere. fonio.ai, a European platform for AI-powered customer calls, says it has surpassed $10m in annual recurring revenue in under twelve months. Since February, when the company switched from a prepaid model to subscriptions, it says it […]

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Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live

Recently, a man I was rock climbing with told me about how he’d used AI to make a motivational poster for himself, which he’d hung on his bedroom wall: a bear, walking a slackline over a canyon, holding a sign that said, “Do cool shit.” I made what I hoped was a polite noise. What […]

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The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI, and its revenue just halved

The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI. The publisher of TheStreet, Parade and Men’s Journal expects the change to finish by the end of August. Business Insider had it first. Steven Tweedie and Ben Shimkus obtained a staff memo from chief executive Paul Edmondson, confidential until 4:05 PM ET, five minutes after the closing bell. […]

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