SoftBank to Invest Some €75 Billion in AI in France, Reports Say

SoftBank Group Corp. plans to invest as much as €75 billion ($87 billion) to build artificial intelligence data centers in France, La Tribune and the Financial Times reported. The Japanese group is set to invest the first €45 billion to construct two data centers in Le Bosquel and Dunkirk, which will become operational in 2028 … Read more

Anthropics valuation surges to $965 billion, surpassing OpenAI

Anthropic said on Thursday it has raised $65 billion at a post-money valuation of $965 billion, as it aims to bolster computing capacity to meet growing demand for chatbot Claude and scale its products. The new valuation after the series H funding round puts Anthropic ahead of OpenAI, last valued at $852 billion post-money in … Read more

US companies, shamed by Trump, tiptoe into $166 billion tariff refund race

Companies in the US are wary of saying too much about one particular nugget of good news for their bottom line and inflation. Only about 5% of the 3,000 largest publicly traded US companies mentioned refunds in the context of President Donald Trump’s now-illegal tariffs in recent comments and regulatory filings, according to a Bloomberg … Read more

Gear shift: Bajaj Auto steers KTM closer to profitability in March quarter

Filings by parent company Bajaj Mobility AG with the Austrian stock exchange showed KTM clocked earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (Ebitda) of €5.5 million in the March quarter, as against an Ebitda loss of €55.8 million a year earlier. Revenue jumped 70% to €331 million as motorcycle sales more than doubled to 40,332 … Read more