Lenovo has raised $2bn through seven-year convertible bonds, and the most notable thing about the debt is that it pays nothing. The Beijing-based maker of computers and AI servers sold zero-coupon notes due in 2033, priced at a conversion premium of 47…
A statement Meng Wanzhou signed to make her own legal jeopardy go away can now be used against the company she helps run. A US judge in Brooklyn ruled on Tuesday that admissions made by Huawei’s chief financial officer, as part of the 2021 deal that le…
JPMorgan Chase has stopped its staff in Hong Kong from using Anthropic’s AI models, according to the Financial Times, a quiet decision with loud implications. The bank removed Anthropic’s Claude from the internal drop-down list of approved large langua…
Apple is going to raise prices, and Tim Cook is no longer pretending otherwise. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the chief executive said the company could not keep absorbing the soaring cost of memory and storage chips. “Unfortunately, pr…
The memo, when it came, was about a transition rather than a departure. Emily Dalton Smith, the Meta executive who had spent barely two months running the company’s push to reorganise itself around AI agents, is leaving. She joined Meta in 2015. She is…
The news that Apple had agreed to make its chips in the United States did not come from Apple. It came, on Thursday, from a post by President Donald Trump on Truth Social, announcing that the company had agreed to work with Intel to design and manufact…
Parafin, an embedded financial infrastructure company on the 2026 Forbes Fintech 50 list, has secured a new credit facility led by Goldman Sachs alongside One William Street Capital Management. The facility will expand access to embedded lending for sm…
ECB President Christine Lagarde warned on Wednesday that artificial intelligence could trigger dangerous financial crises and called for global AI governance modelled on the Cold War-era non-proliferation agreements that kept the world safe from nuclea…
The Trump Mobile T1 is here, and it is not what was promised. When Donald Trump’s eldest sons unveiled it at Trump Tower a year ago, the pitch was a gold-coloured handset with an iPhone resemblance, proudly made in the US. What shipped is a rebranded H…
Telepatia, an AI clinical assistant built for Latin American healthcare, has raised $33 million in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company wants to reach half of the region’s 1.9 million doctors by the end of 2027. Total funding is now $42 m…