Global sales of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles rose 24% in May compared with the same period a year ago, as strength in China offset slower growth in North America, according to market research firm Rho Motion.
China’s Huawei Technologies is capable of producing no more than 200,000 advanced artificial intelligence chips in 2025, a top U.S. exports controls official told lawmakers on Thursday, warning that though the number is below the company’s demand, China is quickly catching up to U.S. capabilities.
CoreWeave has emerged as a winner in Google’s newly signed partnership with OpenAI, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, in the latest example of the voracious appetite for computing resources in the artificial-intelligence industry and the formation of new alliances to meet them.
Oracle raised its annual revenue growth forecast on Wednesday, betting on robust demand for its cloud offerings from companies deploying artificial intelligence, sending its shares up more than 7% after the bell.
Capita, a British outsourcer that works with government, armed forces and companies, said it was using AI to cut recruitment from weeks to just hours, and it would roll out the service, developed with Salesforce Inc, this summer.
IonQ will acquire its British peer Oxford Ionics for $1.08 billion, the companies said on Monday, helping the U.S.-based quantum computing firm deepen its research expertise in the complex technology that is seeing booming investor interest.
Apple announced on Monday a slew of artificial intelligence features including opening up Apple Intelligence’s underlying technology in a modest update of its software and services as it lays the groundwork for future advances.
Chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries said on Wednesday it planned to increase its investment plans to $16 billion, allocating an additional $1 billion to capital spending and $3 billion to research in several emerging chip technologies.
European satellite company SES is set to win unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $3.1-billion bid for rival Intelsat, people familiar with the matter said, creating a major European player to rival Elon Musk’s Space X-owned Starlink.
Dutch car sharing firm MyWheels will plug in the first of 500 grid-connectable Renault EVs to its fleet in the Netherlands this week, expanding the number of vehicles in Europe capable of strengthening the power grid as the technology gains traction.
Beta Technologies became the first U.S. company to land an all-electric aircraft at an airport in the New York-New Jersey region, the company and port authorities said in Tuesday.
Hedge funds revealed their top investment ideas, ranging from Chinese self-driving taxis, an Indian drug retailer, to a Korean nuclear plant builder, at the annual Sohn investment conference in Hong Kong.
British digital bank Monzo reported revenue above 1 billion pounds ($1.35 billion) for the first time and a sharp rise in annual pretax profit on Monday, driven by strong growth in personal and business customer numbers.
Dell raised its annual profit forecast on Thursday, signaling growing demand for its AI-powered servers that are equipped with Nvidia’s powerful chips.