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Articles from www.wsj.com

PointFive, which helps companies reduce unnecessary cloud and AI spending, raised a $60M Series B led by Accel, bringing its total funding to $100M (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-9 AI

A look at Ireland's Bring Your Own Power policy, which requires new data centers to have their own power plants on site or sources of energy produced nearby (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-8 Energy Ireland

KPMG survey: only 26% of companies have a comprehensive view of their AI costs, while 50% have some visibility and 22% have none or only see costs after billing (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-8 AI KPMG

The largest US banks plan to launch a tokenized deposit network in 2027 to connect traditional payment rails with the infrastructure that digital assets run on (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-6 Asset

Sources: US officials discussed the US taking stakes in major AI companies after Sam Altman pitched the idea in 2025; Altman met Bernie Sanders on Wednesday (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-5 AI

Sources: US officials discussed the government taking stakes in major AI companies after Sam Altman pitched the idea; Altman met Bernie Sanders on Wednesday (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-5 AI

Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing or temporarily pausing development, suggesting that self-improving AI systems may soon pose societal risks (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-5 AI

Arizona Public Service, the state's largest utility, proposes a 45% electricity-rate increase for data centers to ensure “that they are paying their fair share” (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-5

Sources: Meta has repeatedly delayed plans to release the Muse Spark API due to bugs and infrastructure needs; Meta says it plans to release it this month (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-4

Sources: Benchmark raised $2B across two new funds, including a $1.25B fund for late-stage bets, its first growth fund after decades focusing on new startups (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-4 Startup

Forage, a payments processor that helps retailers and food-delivery companies accept EBT cards, raised a $40M Series B led by Mouro Capital at a $225M valuation (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-4

Google sold $35B in stock in its equity raise this week, up from its planned $30B and taking its total funding to $85B; a source says it contacted 75 investors (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-4 Google Equity

Anthropic unveils a Services Track for its Claude Partner Network, a ranking based on what companies built with Claude, and releases a Claude Partner Hub portal (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-4

Baidu CFO Henry He says the company expects to spin off and list its chip unit Kunlunxin in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 2026, making it a “neutral player” (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-3 Hong Kong Shanghai

AI market research platform AlphaSense raised $350M from Vitruvian, Accenture, and others at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4B in 2024, ahead of a possible IPO (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-3 IPO AI

The US data center build-out is falling behind schedule; JP Morgan says 60%+ of data center capacity planned for completion in 2027 isn't yet under construction (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-3

GitLab is laying off 350 staff, or 14% of its workforce, as it pivots to become an AI-focused enterprise software development platform, and exits 22 countries (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-3 AI

Barcelona-based HR software startup Factorial raised a $150M Series D led by General Catalyst at a $2.5B valuation to expand AI agents and grow in Germany (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-3 Germany Startup AI

Crunchbase: SF startups hit a record of 1,404 seed deals in 2025, while the number of NYC seed deals has dropped over the past three years, to 666 in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-2 Startup

Meituan reports Q1 revenue up 5.6% YoY to ~$13.5B, above ~$13.4B est., and a ~$1B net loss, its third straight quarter of losses amid a food delivery price war (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-1

Bill Gates' carefully crafted public image has been eroded by revelations about his ties to Epstein; Gates was recently snubbed from Microsoft's CEO Summit (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-31 Microsoft Bill Gates

As robotaxi companies attempt to scale in the US, they face increasing scrutiny and mounting criticism from drivers, law enforcement, and local governments (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-31

PitchBook: VC investment in global robotics and physical AI jumped to $26B in 2025 from $4.2B in 2019, and has already topped $23B as of May 20 this year (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-31 AI Robot

Memory chip makers are leveraging their newfound power to secure long-term agreements, a move set to reshape the industry's business model and stabilize prices (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-30

A profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman, who is overseeing product in his new role and has become an important ambassador for AI to the Trump administration (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-30 Trump AI

After hitting their annual AI budget in months or seeing their AI bills double or triple due to “tokenmaxxing”, some companies are rationing or tracking AI use (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-30 AI Budget

The CFTC moves to vacate a $5M settlement with Gemini, reversing a Biden-era enforcement action, following a lobbying campaign by the Winklevoss twins (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-29 CFTC

IBM and Red Hat commit $5B to establish a new model for open-source software, dubbed Project Lightwell, and will deploy 20,000 engineers, supported by AI (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-28 IBM AI

As Google plans to build a $15B AI data center hub in India's Visakhapatnam, locals and rights groups are raising concerns over “extremely high” water stress (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-28 India Google AI

Mistral says it is accelerating superintelligence development to ensure Europe's independence from US tech giants, and signs deals to supply Airbus and BMW (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-28 Europe Airbus

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