This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at an emerging market for electric tugboats and boom times for a solar panel maker that doesn’t use Chinese components
Dozens of people have complained to the Federal Trade Commission about Norse Atlantic Airways’ tech-first customer service operation. Some said they lost thousands of dollars.

Satya Nadella has dismantled the senior leadership structure that ran Microsoft for decades. The company “quietly retired what’s known as the SLT,” a person close to the CEO told Business Insider. The senior leadership team, the powerful executives who…
Arc Marine started out selling luxury electric boats. Now it’s chasing a bigger business: battery systems for tugs, barges and military boats.
Simon Song, who made the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list this year, is founder of Chinese AI startup VAST, which raised $200 million in fresh funding.
Hollywood studios are moving from AI resistance to AI control, as Amazon, Lionsgate, Netflix and SAG-AFTRA reshape the rules of film.

Vertice has bought Vendr. The London-based AI procurement company announced on Monday that it has acquired the US software-pricing firm, a deal it says creates the world’s largest procurement intelligence dataset by combining the two companies’ data on…
AI for mental health is being hampered by underlying AI unknowns that have yet to be figured out. I lay out the unknowns. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

SoftBank’s market cap topped Toyota’s on Monday for the first time in 23 years, lifted by its ~$65bn OpenAI stake and a Nikkei breaking 67,000 for the first time. SoftBank Group overtook Toyota Motor on Monday to become Japan’s most valuable listed com…