Swiss watchmaker Swatch and luxury partner Audemars Piguet are betting big on a Gen Z “product drop” culture – buzzy, often limited launches that have helped spur sales from Labubu dolls and Nike trainers to Popeyes chicken. Source link
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said Monday that the company’s external manufacturing business is gaining traction, emerging as a key piece of the chipmaker’s turnaround. “Foundry is very important,” Tan told Jim Cramer on CNBC’s “Mad Money.” “It’s one of the key national treasures.” Intel’s manufacturing business, known as foundry, is of the most expensive and…
A federal jury in Oakland, California, on Monday said Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over claims they allegedly violated an agreement to run their artificial intelligence venture strictly as a charitable nonprofit. The advisory jury’s verdict, which came after less than two hours of deliberations, was immediately…
Jurors spent nearly a month hearing and viewing evidence in the high-profile trial, where Musk had accused Altman of “stealing a charity”. Source link
Google (GOOG, GOOGL) and Blackstone (BX) are launching an artificial intelligence cloud company, the latest sign that Wall Street is getting deeper in the AI infrastructure race. The joint venture will provide data center capacity, operations, networking, and Google Cloud’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) as a compute-as-a-service offering. The business will give customers another way…
U.S. chipmaker Analog Devices is in advanced talks to acquire artificial intelligence chip company Empower Semiconductor for about $1.5 billion in cash, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Source link
Photos courtesy Scott Johnston Scott Johnston (left), with Noelle Brooks and Andrew Winch, at PNW CMAA 2026. When Johnston Framework was founded in 1979 (as Johnston Training Group), the breakthrough technology was overhead projectors. Desktop publishing, PowerPoint, InDesign, online submittals, and virtual communications—each wave changed project pursuits without changing what actually wins. AI…
The duo plans to launch the unnamed U.S. company with $5 billion in equity capital from Blackstone, which will be the majority owner, according to people familiar with the matter. Source link
The UK-headquartered banking giant aims to move some of the effected workers to other roles in the business. Source link
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday announced another location for one of the city’s planned government-run grocery stores, this one set to open in the Bronx next year. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday announced another location for one of the city’s five planned government-run grocery stores. The store will be…
