I Nailed a Robotaxi Forecast In 2013. Here’s Why Elon Keeps Blowing It

With luck and skill and partly as a joke, I named the date that robotaxis would arrive in London. How did I get it right? How have others, like Elon Musk, gotten it so wrong?

The Last Byte: The DRAM Shortage Auto Industry Never Saw Coming

This article highlights global shortage of DRAM that is facing the auto industry

The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times
The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times

How newsrooms should use AI – or if they should at all – has been a recurrent debate within the media industry over the last several years. Increasingly, these rules are being hammered out at the bargaining table between unions and publishers. Right now, employees at The New York Times are gearing up for a […]

UK High Court Issues ‘omnibus’ Order To Streamline Piracy Blocking

With pirate sites frequently evading court orders by switching names or website domains, the U.K. is moving to make it easier to make blocking orders stick.

Vincent Bolloré rejects Ackman’s $64bn Universal Music bid
Vincent Bolloré rejects Ackman’s $64bn Universal Music bid

Vincent Bolloré has formally turned down Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square offer for Universal Music Group, ending the largest take-private attempt in music-industry history. Vincent Bolloré has formally rejected Bill Ackman’s $64bn offer for Universal Mus…

The Samsung pay deal is the moment Korean unions changed register
The Samsung pay deal is the moment Korean unions changed register

Samsung’s 10.5%-of-profit bonus formula is only the second written profit-share agreement at a major Korean firm. Kakao’s union is already asking for more. Samsung Electronics’ unionised workforce voted in favour of the government-mediated pay agreemen…

Micron approaches $1tn as UBS sees a path to $1.8tn over 12 months
Micron approaches $1tn as UBS sees a path to $1.8tn over 12 months

Timothy Arcuri lifted his price target to $1,625 from $535 on the back of long-term HBM supply agreements that, in his read, compress the boom-bust memory cycle into something closer to a structural duopoly. Micron Technology shares rose as much as 19%…

The Qualcomm-ByteDance ASIC deal works around US export controls by design
The Qualcomm-ByteDance ASIC deal works around US export controls by design

The TikTok parent will buy millions of Qualcomm application-specific chips for AI data centres and use Qualcomm to take its own design from blueprint to production. Qualcomm has struck a deal to supply ByteDance with millions of application-specific in…

What Tim Cook’s Legacy Teaches Doctors About Money And Mission

Tim Cook’s leadership at Apple offers doctors a case study in what happens when money, mission and professional identity collide.

SK Hynix joins the trillion-dollar club, powered by Nvidia’s HBM4 orders
SK Hynix joins the trillion-dollar club, powered by Nvidia’s HBM4 orders

A 10%+ surge in Seoul trading on Wednesday pushed the Korean memory firm past $1 trillion, making it the third chipmaker after Nvidia and TSMC to cross the line. SK Hynix’s market capitalisation pushed through $1 trillion in Seoul trading on Wednesday …