Companies, markets and policy
Netflix tried to secure seven years of exclusive rights to turn Xbox video game franchises into films and television series, opening with an offer of $500 million. Microsoft’s gaming leadership judged the catalogue to be worth considerably more and countered…
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is asking financiers to treat the company’s AI accelerators as long-life assets rather than fast-depreciating parts. In an interview with Yahoo Finance’s Deirdre Bosa at Nvidia’s GTC gathering in Berlin, he said the systems stay…
Micron has mapped out a multi-year plan for memory and storage, linking future DDR6, LPDDR6, HBM and NAND parts to a process node that is due for mass manufacturing in the second half of 2027. The node is named 1-Delta,…
OpenAI’s models will be sold through Google Cloud under an agreement announced on October 21, converting one of the sharpest rivalries in artificial intelligence into a distribution partnership. Google Cloud customers will be able to buy OpenAI models straight from…
Amazon is committing billions of dollars to Nvidia hardware months before the sites meant to host it can deliver the electricity it needs, according to internal company messages describing finished server racks held in storage while construction and grid hookups…
A weekly Microsoft recap has placed two unrelated developments in the same frame: recent work on OneDrive and Copilot, and EA’s decision to shut down BioWare. The roundup treats both as part of the same news cycle, even though one…
