The Lime IPO has a price and an anchor investor: Uber, the ride-hailing giant that already owns a chunk of the scooter firm and is now backing its market debut. Lime is going public, and an old backer is helping carry it across the line: Uber. The scoo…
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at an audacious plan for floating, ocean-powered data centers and GM’s pursuit of cheaper battery technologies.
In a blunt interview, Satya Nadella warned that the AI giants cannot keep promising mass job losses while demanding the power to build whatever they want. Microsoft’s answer: cheaper models, more control for customers, and a pitch for the public’s trus…
The Chevron Microsoft gas deal hands the oil major a 20-year contract to power a giant West Texas data centre. For a company that built its AI plans on renewables and nuclear, that is a sharp turn. Chevron will power one of the largest data centres in …
For most of the generative-AI era, Getty Images has been the industry’s most determined courtroom opponent, the stock-photo giant that sued the people building image generators rather than licensing to them. On Monday it changed sides, and the market r…
Big Tech is throwing big money into data center buildouts. As national opposition to the facilities grows, some workers are beginning to question whether it’s worth it.
GenAI’s breakthrough in mathematics offers a lesson for medicine: solving healthcare’s biggest problems means questioning old assumptions.
WeChat is the rare app that already does almost everything. Chinese users message, pay, book, shop, and summon a taxi without ever leaving it, which is exactly what makes Tencent’s next move interesting: rather than build a separate chatbot and fight f…
For a quarter of a century, the most valuable company in South Korea was Samsung Electronics, and the question was never really open. On Wednesday it became open, and then it closed the other way. SK Hynix, the smaller of the country’s two memory-chip …
OpenAI has a new technique for testing AI, known as deployment simulation. This can help AI safety. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.