GameStop offers $56 billion for eBay, struggles to explain how it’ll pay for it
GameStop yesterday made an unsolicited offer to buy eBay for $55.5 billion. GameStop claims that eBay has underperformed and spends too much on sales and
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White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
The Trump administration, which took a noninterventionist approach to artificial intelligence, is now discussing imposing oversight on A.I. models before they are made publicly available.
F1 in Miami: That’s what it looks like when an upgrade works
After an unanticipated five-week break in the season, Formula One resumed action this past weekend in Miami. Held at a temporary circuit around Hard Rock
Anthropic and Wall Street Giants Join Forces to Create New A.I. Firm
Blackstone and Goldman Sachs are among the investors in the new firm, which will help integrate Anthropic’s A.I. model Claude into their systems.
SAP buys Prior Labs to anchor a European frontier AI lab around tabular foundation models
Eighteen months after a €9m pre-seed, the Freiburg-based pioneer of TabPFN is being acquired by SAP and will receive more than €1bn over four years.
Brussels reissues its Huawei warning, six years on, and prepares to make it stick
The European Commission has formally recommended that member states keep Huawei and ZTE out of their connectivity infrastructure. The same restrictions are now moving toward
Apple is preparing to spend, but not necessarily on AI
Apple last week nixed its long-held “net cash neutral” target, a move analysts see as giving the company more flexibility to make massive infrastructure investments or
10 quick productivity tips for Microsoft 365 mobile apps
Most of us work with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Microsoft 365 apps primarily on a computer, via the desktop or web apps. While you’re
OpenAI closes The Deployment Company, a $10bn enterprise AI bet on private equity
OpenAI has finalised the most structurally novel enterprise AI deal of 2026: a $10bn vehicle anchored by TPG, with 19 investors and a 17.5% guaranteed
Blackstone wants $1.75bn for the first AI-era data-centre REIT
Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust will list on the NYSE under BXDC, targeting newly built data centres leased to hyperscalers. It is the most direct way
UCB pays up to $2.2bn for Candid Therapeutics, doubling down on T-cell engagers in autoimmune disease
The Belgian pharma is buying a two-year-old San Diego biotech for $2bn upfront, the second TCE bet it has placed in months. The thesis: B-cell
The West keeps asking how much China subsidises its industries. That is the wrong question.
The Western debate about China’s industrial rise keeps circling the same question: how much of it is subsidised? The European Commission’s anti-subsidy investigations into Chinese
There’s a lot of hype about Chinese EVs—is any of it true?
The Beijing Auto Show is currently taking place in China, offering those of us behind the Trump tariff curtain a peek at what’s increasingly being
Relying on LLMs is nearly impossible when AI vendors keep changing things
Over the years, enterprise IT execs have gotten frighteningly comfortable having little control or visibility over mission-critical apps, from SaaS to cloud and even cybersecurity.