Google said it has made its largest purchase of solar power and battery storage to date. The first two phases of the project, located in Arkansas, will generate enough electricity to supply about 6% of the state’s peak demand, the company said earlier this week. Electricity from the project will flow directly to the grid,
Microsoft this week released a record number of security patches for Windows, Office and other technology product lines, citing the use of artificial intelligence to help discover code vulnerabilities. The technology and cloud giant issued patches for 570 security flaws on Tuesday as part of its scheduled monthly release of fixes, which security researchers have
Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly made a joint bid to acquire PayPal in a deal valued at approximately $53.4 billion. Reuters reports that the offer was submitted earlier this month and is backed by approximately $50 billion in committed bank financing. Under the proposal, Stripe and Advent would jointly own PayPal,
India on Wednesday unveiled billions of dollars in new incentives for smartphone manufacturing and an expanded semiconductor push, seeking to build on its success in assembling Apple’s iPhones and shift more of the global electronics supply chain away from China. Called the Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme, the ₹625 billion (around $6.5 billion) program will run
AI models are becoming more capable, but exactly what enterprise adoption will look like remains a big unknown. In a bid to shape that future, labs like Anthropic and OpenAI have created independent companies dedicated to deploying AI engineers in their clients’ offices, a bid to help companies figure out how to use their AI
Realta Fusion has spent the last two years looking for a place to build its research and development facility. In the end, the former Oscar Mayer factory in Madison, Wisconsin was chosen. “From sausages to fusion,” Kieran Furlong, co-founder and CEO of Realta Fusion, told TechCrunch with a laugh. The new center, called Forge, will
