SoftBank is making a huge move into digital infrastructure, agreeing to buy investment firm DigitalBridge for about $3 billion in cash. The deal, worth $4 billion including debt, is a direct play to capitalize on the AI boom’s insatiable need for data centers.
A major 2025 survey reveals generative AI is now deeply embedded in business, with budgets soaring and ROI being measured. The hard part? Managing the people and skills side of the equation as the tech accelerates.
Mizuho Financial Group is taking a different path than its Japanese rivals. Instead of buying banks, it’s using boutique acquisitions and AI to fuel a global corporate banking expansion and a domestic retail push.
We’re at an inflection point where robots are leaving labs for everyday life. But to succeed, they need to move beyond just humanoid forms and learn to navigate the unspoken social constructs of our world. The design challenge is now cultural, not just technical.
Microsoft’s 2025 quantum computer announcement has split the scientific community. The company claims a breakthrough with error-resistant topological qubits, but critics and even the journal Nature say the evidence isn’t there yet.
Economists see a stronger 2026 U.S. economy fueled by tax cuts and an AI investment boom, according to Reuters. However, risks from a softening labor market and divided Fed policy could undermine the recovery.
Renesas is pushing into software-defined vehicles with its new 3nm automotive chip, the R-Car X5H. It promises massive AI performance and the ability to run multiple car systems at once, with sampling already underway.
Deploying AI at a massive, regulated company like ResMed is less about the code and more about executive discipline. The challenges are all about governance, alignment, and avoiding costly, fragmented projects.
According to Phoronix, Fedora shipped two major releases in 2025, Fedora 42 in April and the delayed Fedora 43 later in the year. Key moves included making GNOME Wayland-only, approving AI-assisted code contributions, and increasing the /boot partition size due to massive NVIDIA firmware files. The
Samsung is making a major push to reclaim its smartphone soul from Qualcomm. With a new 2nm chip and custom GPU in development, the goal is to make Exynos the dominant processor in future Galaxy phones, cutting off a massive and growing bill to its rival.
