Intel’s stock tripled under Lip-Bu Tan. He still has not told most employees the plan.
Intel’s stock tripled under Lip-Bu Tan. He still has not told most employees the plan.

  Intel’s stock has tripled in twelve months. Its chief executive still has not told most of his employees what the plan is. Lip-Bu Tan, who became CEO in March 2025, has spent the first fourteen months of his tenure building relationships outside the …

Lime files for a Nasdaq IPO under the LIME ticker, the first big micromobility test in eight years
Lime files for a Nasdaq IPO under the LIME ticker, the first big micromobility test in eight years

The San Francisco scooter-and-e-bike operator goes public as Neutron Holdings with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan as joint book-runners. $686m in 2024 revenue and two consecutive years of free cash flow give it a financial profile that the rest of the cate…

NVIDIA takes $2.1bn warrant in IREN as part of 5GW AI data-centre deal
NVIDIA takes $2.1bn warrant in IREN as part of 5GW AI data-centre deal

NVIDIA will invest up to $2.1bn in IREN as part of a deal that pairs the chipmaker’s reference architecture with the data-centre operator’s 5-gigawatt infrastructure pipeline. The two companies announced the partnership on Thursday. The structure is un…

Sony forecasts 11% profit lift and $3.2bn buyback as music and sensors offset PS5 memory shock
Sony forecasts 11% profit lift and $3.2bn buyback as music and sensors offset PS5 memory shock

FY26 guidance puts operating profit at ¥1.6 trillion. The PS5 install base, royalty income from streaming, and a smartphone-camera business with no obvious challenger are doing the work while the gaming hardware unit absorbs a memory-cost shock. Sony G…

Samsung Electronics crosses $1tn, joining TSMC, as the AI memory cycle pulls Korea into a record
Samsung Electronics crosses $1tn, joining TSMC, as the AI memory cycle pulls Korea into a record

Samsung’s stock has more than quadrupled in a year. The KOSPI broke 7,000 for the first time. Two Korean chipmakers now account for 42% of the index. The supercycle that built this rally is, by Samsung’s own forecast, not yet at its peak. There is a pa…

Duolingo beat every estimate Wall Street had. Then it told investors it was going to slow down on purpose. The stock dropped 14 per cent.
Duolingo beat every estimate Wall Street had. Then it told investors it was going to slow down on purpose. The stock dropped 14 per cent.

Duolingo beat every Wall Street estimate for the first quarter of 2026. Revenue rose 27 per cent year on year to 292 million dollars. Earnings per share came in at 89 cents against expectations of 76 cents. Daily active users grew 21 per cent to 56.5 m…

Three months after raising $30bn, Alphabet taps the euro market again
Three months after raising $30bn, Alphabet taps the euro market again

Three months after a $30bn multi-currency raise, Google’s parent is back. The euro tranches expand one of the most active corporate borrowing programmes of the AI cycle. Three months after raising more than $30bn in a multi-currency global debt issue, …

Blackstone wants $1.75bn for the first AI-era data-centre REIT
Blackstone wants $1.75bn for the first AI-era data-centre REIT

Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust will list on the NYSE under BXDC, targeting newly built data centres leased to hyperscalers. It is the most direct way Wall Street has yet packaged the AI build-out for public investors. For most of the past 18 m…

Palantir’s earnings test arrives in the middle of an AI software sell-off
Palantir’s earnings test arrives in the middle of an AI software sell-off

After a 30% year-to-date drawdown, Monday’s Q1 results are Palantir’s first chance to argue, not assume, that it does not belong in the broader AI software multiple compression. Until two weeks ago, Palantir was, by some measures, the best-performing l…

Cerebras files updated IPO terms: $3.5bn raise at $26.6bn valuation
Cerebras files updated IPO terms: $3.5bn raise at $26.6bn valuation

Three days after suggesting it might target up to $4bn at $40bn, the AI chipmaker has marketed 28 million shares at $115-$125 each, lining the deal up with its February private valuation rather than above it. Cerebras Systems was preparing to seek up t…