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Gail Slater Leaves Role as Justice Dept.’s Antitrust Chief

12 February 2026 at 14:30
Her departure follows months of mounting tension over her division’s work to determine whether companies violated antitrust laws.

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Abigail Slater was in the job as assistant attorney general for the antitrust division for roughly a year, after her confirmation in March.

Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon

10 February 2026 at 21:04
In a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space.

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Elon Musk told employees of xAI that he plans to put a factory on the moon as a steppingstone to colonizing Mars.

After Merging xAI and SpaceX, Elon Musk Hopes He Can Win Over Wall Street

7 February 2026 at 20:27
The billionaire’s decision to merge his A.I. start-up with his rocket company will test investors’ interest in giant combinations of unalike businesses.

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SpaceX’s launchpad near Brownsville, Texas. In addition to rockets and satellites, Elon Musk’s company now includes artificial intelligence and social media businesses.

Netflix Leader Pushes Warner Deal Before Skeptical Lawmakers

3 February 2026 at 18:47
Senators asked Ted Sarandos about whether the acquisition would raise prices, squeeze talent and degrade the moviegoing experience.

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Ted Sarandos, left, a co-chief executive of Netflix, and Bruce Campbell, right, chief revenue and strategy officer of Warner Bros. Discovery. Mr. Sarandos told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that “we’ll keep growing the American entertainment industry.”

Elon Musk Merges SpaceX With His A.I. Start-Up xAI

The deal further intermingles Mr. Musk’s companies and creates the most valuable private company on earth.

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SpaceX’s rocket facility in Boca Chica, Texas.

Meta Forecasts Spending of at Least $115 Billion This Year

28 January 2026 at 18:24
That would be a major jump from $72 billion last year, as the tech giant aims to compete in the artificial intelligence race.

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Meta’s Eagle Mountain Data Center in Utah. The bulk of Meta’s new A.I. spending will be on infrastructure like data centers.

The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley

Defections, secret conversations, deal talks that fizzled and a battle for control: The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab is the artificial intelligence industry’s latest drama.

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Ms. Murati with Mr. Altman and two other OpenAI colleagues in 2023. She co-founded Thinking Labs a year ago.

China Is Investigating Meta’s Acquisition of the AI Start-Ip Manus

Regulators said they would look at whether the deal for Manus, a Singapore start-up with Chinese roots, complied with China’s export and investment rules.

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Meta’s deal for Manus last month capped a year of extravagant spending by the American company on elite artificial intelligence researchers.

Louis V. Gerstner, Who Revived a Faltering IBM in the ’90s, Dies at 83

29 December 2025 at 18:20
Installed as an outsider, he engineered a comeback, shifting the company’s focus from a waning mainframe computer business toward consulting and services.

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Louis V. Gerstner Jr. in his office at IBM’s headquarters in Armonk, N.Y., in 2001. He was with Dr. Yvette Burton, a technology consultant.

A Father and Son’s $108 Billion Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

24 December 2025 at 20:08
Larry and David Ellison didn’t always have a close relationship. Now they’re one of the most intriguing partnerships in business.

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Google Buys Data Center Company for $4.75 Billion

23 December 2025 at 12:48
The deal for Intersect, a data center and energy developer, is set to help Google build out its infrastructure for artificial intelligence.

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Google, led by Sundar Pichai, above, had already been working with Intersect to build data centers and invested in the company a year ago.

Trump Media Merger With Nuclear Fusion Firm Raises Ethics Questions

Trump Media plans to merge with a company developing nuclear fusion technology, putting the president’s financial interests in competition with other energy companies over which his administration holds sway.

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President Trump’s social media company said on Thursday that it had agreed to an all-stock merger with TAE Technologies, a fusion power company.

TikTok Signs Agreements With Investors in Step Toward Avoiding a U.S. Ban

18 December 2025 at 21:02
The Chinese-owned video app formalized commitments from the software giant Oracle and two investment firms as part of a deal to keep operating in the United States.

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Investment agreements bring TikTok, one of the country’s most popular social media apps, closer to resolving years of questions about its future.

Massachusetts Battery Start-Up to List on Stock Exchange

18 December 2025 at 14:13
Factorial, the start-up, said the listing would provide money that would help it bring new solid-state batteries to market as soon as 2027.

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Siyu Huang is the chief executive of Factorial.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Valued at $800 Billion, as It Prepares to Go Public

12 December 2025 at 19:55
A sale of insider shares at $421 a share would make Mr. Musk’s rocket company the most valuable private company in the world, as it readies for a possible initial public offering next year.

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The SpaceX launchpad in South Texas in June 2024. The company said in a letter to employees on Friday that it could go public in 2026.

Trump’s Interest in Warner Bros. Deal Weighs On Justice Department

10 December 2025 at 14:20
President Trump’s unusual decision to involve himself in the government’s review of the deal puts pressure on his antitrust chief.

© Pete Kiehart for The New York Times

Gail Slater is in charge of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, which is expected to handle the government’s review of a Warner Bros. deal.
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