Inside the $32 Billion Industry Transforming Marijuana

0 Comments

An email obtained by The Times shows that one committee leader, Representative Sharon Wylie, a supporter of the industry, shared a draft of the bill with a cannabis lobbyist. “Thank you for being open to the compromise approach,” she wrote. In an interview, Ms. Wylie said that “the jury’s still out” on the potential harms […]


Meta to Increase Spending to $65 Billion This Year in A.I. Push

0 Comments

Mark Zuckerberg spent all of 2024 telling investors that artificial intelligence would be key to the future of his company, Meta. In 2025, he plans to put his money where his mouth is. On Friday, Mr. Zuckerberg said the company expected its capital expenditures in 2025 to come in at an estimated $60 to $65 […]


TikTok’s U.S. unit could be worth as much as $50 billion in a sale

0 Comments

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Business moguls such as Elon Musk should be prepared to spend tens of billions of dollars for TikTok’s U.S. operations should parent company ByteDance decide to sell.  TikTok is staring at a potential ban in the U.S. if the Supreme Court decides to uphold a national security law […]


Anthropic in Talks for $2 Billion Funding Round

0 Comments

The San Francisco artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic is in talks to raise a new round of funding that could value the company at $60 billion, up from about $16 billion less than a year ago, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. Led by the venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, the new […]


Microsoft expects to spend $80 billion on AI data centers in FY 2025

0 Comments

Vice Chair and President at Microsoft, Brad Smith, participates in the first day of Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on November 12, 2024. The largest technology conference in the world this year has 71,528 attendees from 153 countries and 3,050 companies, with AI emerging as the most represented industry. (Photo by Rita Franca/NurPhoto via Getty […]


Nordstrom to go private in $6.25 billion deal with founding family

0 Comments

A sign marks the location of a Nordstrom store on March 20, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.  Scott Olson | Getty Images Nordstrom on Monday announced it will become a private company after it agreed to a buyout deal valued at roughly $6.25 billion from Nordstrom’s founding family and Mexican department store El Puerto de Liverpool. The […]


Tesla CEO Elon Musk loses bid to get $56 billion pay package reinstated

0 Comments

Elon Musk listens as US President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. Allison Robbert | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk lost his bid to get his 2018 CEO pay package reinstated on Monday when a Delaware judge […]


Intel close to $8 billion CHIPS Act grant: Source

0 Comments

Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger speaks prior to President Joe Biden’s remarks at Intel Ocotillo Campus on March 20, 2024 in Chandler, Arizona.  Rebecca Noble | Getty Images Chipmaker Intel and the CHIPS and Science Act office are close to finalizing a deal which would award the company a roughly $8 billion grant, according to a […]


Alphabet’s self-driving unit Waymo closes $5.6 billion funding round

0 Comments

A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar taxi drives along a street on March 14, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.  Mario Tama | Getty Images Waymo has closed a $5.6 billion funding round to expand its robotaxi service in and beyond Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix, where it operates today. The autonomous vehicle venture is owned […]


Meta Spent $10 billion on the Metaverse in 2021, Dragging Down Profit

0 Comments

For years, Meta has tried to become less dependent on Apple, which holds the key to iPhone users, and to shift away from social networking controversies involving misinformation and hate speech. So in October, Mr. Zuckerberg announced that he planned for his company to take a new path toward the metaverse. He renamed Facebook as […]