The logo of Japanese company SoftBank Group at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2025. Kazuhiro Nogi | AFP | Getty Images SoftBank Group plunged more than 12% on Friday, leading a broad selloff in Asian technology stocks, amid mounting concerns over the rising cost of artificial intelligence infrastructure. The Japanese conglomerate led…
A view of commercial cargo vessels and crude oil tankers are anchored in the Gulf of Oman, off the coast of Muscat, Oman, on June 21, 2026, as they prepare to transit through the critical Strait of Hormuz. Shady Alassar | Anadolu | Getty Images Iran was behind an attack on a cargo ship near…
The Club’s 10 things to watch Thursday, June 25 1. The tech-heavy Nasdaq is set to rally today , led by semiconductor stocks after memory chipmaker Micron signaled supply still can’t keep up with growing AI-fueled demand. S & P and Dow futures are also positive, but to a much smaller degree. U.S. benchmark WTI…
Hello, this is Priyanka Salve, writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to the latest edition of “Inside India“ — your one-stop destination for stories and developments from the world’s fastest-growing large economy. India is seen as a laggard in the global AI race, but having the world’s second-largest workforce and relatively low labor costs has led…
Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra speaks at a groundbreaking ceremony for the company’s semiconductor manufacturing facility in Clay, New York, on Jan. 16, 2026. Heather Ainsworth | Bloomberg | Getty Images Micron‘s revenue more than quadrupled in the fiscal third quarter, the company said on Wednesday, as the memory maker continued to benefit from soaring demand…
Zoox introduced the “next evolution” of its toaster-shaped robotaxi. Zoox Amazon‘s Zoox unveiled the “next evolution” of its toaster-shaped self-driving vehicle on Wednesday, adding more rider-friendly features ahead of a wider U.S. rollout this year. The company said it’s equipping the vehicles with higher-quality touchscreens, more comfortable seats and headrests, and small interior tweaks that…
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI and Broadcom on Wednesday unveiled their debut custom chip, called Jalapeño, marking the ChatGPT maker’s first entry into artificial intelligence silicon. The chips will be made by Broadcom and used by OpenAI for inference, the compute-intensive process of serving its AI models to users in ChatGPT and…
Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, holds the Wafer Scale Engine 3 chip at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on May 14, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cerebras said revenue almost doubled in the AI chipmaker’s first earnings report since its initial public offering last month. The stock fell…
Signage at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, US, on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Benjamin Fanjoy | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet will replace Verizon in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P Global said Tuesday, further expanding megacap technology’s presence in the blue-chip average. S&P Global said the Google parent’s A shares — which trade…
AI data centers powered by off-grid power plants took a major step forward this week, a good sign for GE Vernova as industry challenges pile up. Monday’s announcement from Chevron that Microsoft has signed a long-term energy purchase agreement to fuel a massive new data center project couldn’t have come at a better time. Microsoft will…
