Today: October 22, 2026
Today: October 22, 2026

investment

Business|Finance|Technology

Elon Musk invests about $1 billion in Skydance, CNBC reports

Elon Musk has made a roughly $1 billion investment in Skydance, CNBC reported on Thursday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

Business|Finance|Science|Technology

Steep bill for AI buildout punishes Meta, other tech favorites

The tab for the next round of the AI buildout came due on Thursday.

Business|Environment|Science|Technology

Facing pushback on data centers, tech giants are promising hosts more money and fewer secrets

With host communities across the U.S. turning against their gargantuan data centers, America’s technology giants are promising to take fewer taxpayer handouts, keep fewer secrets or shower more money onto the communities willing to allow the server warehouses

Business|Economy

Nippon Steel to spend $3 billion in U.S. Steel plant equipment upgrade, Nikkei reports

Nippon Steel will invest about $3 billion in the U.S.

Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

Barclays to cut 5,000 jobs this year

Barclays said on Thursday it was cutting around 5,000 jobs, or 5% of its workforce, this year, as it uses technology such as AI to reduce fixed costs and improve overall

Business|Science|Technology

Samsung Electro-Mechanics gets $2.8 billion chip investment from Tesla, Nvidia, report says

South Korea's Samsung Electro-Mechanics will receive investment valued at 3.7 trillion won ($2.8 billion) from Tesla and Nvidia to build facilities making advanced chip

Business|Finance|Technology

IBM raises annual software revenue outlook as deal delays ease

IBM finance chief James Kavanaugh on Wednesday said delayed software deals that rattled investors in the last quarter were beginning to close, as the company

Arts|Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

Meta puts Muse agent at heart of AI strategy, plans new stock to power investments

Meta introduced new non-voting shares on Wednesday to help fund the social media giant's costly AI expansion, as executives laid out their vision

Business|Finance|Science|Technology

Wall St sees Tesla-SpaceX merger as inevitable, but split on price

A Tesla-SpaceX merger appears to be a matter of when, not if, to many on Wall Street. But they disagree on a key factor: how much Tesla shareholders should be paid.

Business|Finance|Technology

Starboard's Smith unveils stake in Solstice, presses for improvements

Activist investor Starboard Value on Tuesday unveiled a new stake in Honeywell spin-off Solstice Advanced Materials, arguing the company is

Africa|Business|Economy|Sports|World

What F1’s return to Africa means for a continent long overlooked by global sports

Though human rights groups call it sportswashing, analysts say Formula 1’s choice of Rwanda to host its first African race since the 1990s can become a watershed moment for the continent’s sports industry – if it can deliver lasting development

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Kroger to invest $5 billion by 2029 as new CEO sharpens grocery focus

Kroger unveiled a $5 billion investment plan to lower prices and improve the shopping experience, as part of new CEO Greg Foran's first strategy to revive the grocer's core business

Asia|Business|Economy|Europe|Finance|Technology

Volkswagen bet on Xpeng to save its China business. It's not going to plan

When Volkswagen turned to EV maker Xpeng in 2023 to help fix its flailing Chinese business, executives touted the partnership as a

Business|Technology

Waymo plans to quintuple fleet to 20,000, Semafor reports

Alphabet's self-driving unit Waymo plans to expand its fleet five-fold to 20,000 by the end of next year using $5 billion it raised earlier this month, Semafor reported on Monday,

Business|Economy|Science|Technology

Germany's Merz urges AI investment ahead of Nvidia deal

Chancellor Friedrich Merz appealed to Germany's businesses to embrace artificial intelligence at an industry summit in Berlin on Monday that was meant to attract

Business|Economy

Africa's minerals value-add drive interests investors but faces energy hurdle

As African nations push miners to build refineries and smelters at home, government and industry officials say a major obstacle risks crimping

Business|Economy|Finance|Science|Stock Markets|Technology

Anthropic offers Blackstone double-digit yield in chip-financing deal, FT reports

Anthropic is offering Blackstone a yield of more than 10% to finance its latest chip deal, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

Business|Finance|Technology

SoftBank weighs $18 billion acquisition of Allied Universal, source says

SoftBank Group is considering an acquisition of Allied Universal in a deal that could value the US security services provider at about $18 billion, a source familiar

Business|Finance|Technology

Why CoreWeave is in the crosshairs of the AI scare

Loss-making and deeply indebted US cloud company CoreWeave became an easy target this week for investors concerned about an

Economy|Science|Technology

Nasdaq nears one-month low as AI stocks slide on debt concerns

The Nasdaq fell to near one-month lows on Thursday as fears of a hit to artificial-intelligence investments from higher interest rates deepened a rout in AI-linked stocks, while

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Space startups secure record $20.8 billion funding as infrastructure bets surge, report shows

Space startups attracted a record $20.8 billion in funding in the third quarter, as investors poured money into launch providers, manufacturing and other

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European shares edge up after solid ASML results, healthcare gains

European shares notched slim gains on Wednesday after robust earnings from ASML reassured investors concerned about AI demand, while healthcare stocks

Arts|Asia|Business|Economy|Environment|Technology

Taiwan plans to buy liquefied natural gas from Alaska pipeline project

Taiwan is planning to buy liquefied natural gas from a U.S. project once extraction starts and could invest up to $4.4 billion in it

Asia|Business|Economy|Finance|World

Asia must guard against another financial crisis, Philippines central bank chief says

Asian countries must remind themselves about what happened during the region's financial crisis in the late 1990s and guard against a recurrence of such