Hacker News with Generative AI: Investments

Ubisoft's $4B carveout sells Tencent a 25% stake in some of its biggest games (theverge.com)
Tencent will invest $1.3 billion in a new entity controlling Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six.

Gaming, Acquisitions, Investments, Tencent, Ubisoft

3 points by mfiguiere 5 days ago | 0 comments

SpaceX reportedly has a secret backdoor for Chinese investment (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX has allowed Chinese investors to buy stakes as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore hubs, according to reporting from ProPublica.

SpaceX, China, Investments, Offshore Finance

10 points by 01-_- 7 days ago | 1 comments

Gold ETFs Inflow Takes over Bitcoin ETFs Amid Historic Rally (coindesk.com)
Gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have overtaken bitcoin ETFs in assets under management as investors shift toward the traditional safe-haven asset as BTC price tumbled more than 19% over the past three months, while the precious metal climbed 12.5%.

Gold, Bitcoin, ETFs, Investments, Financial Markets

5 points by PaulHoule 7 days ago | 0 comments

Schneider Electric pumps $700M into US ops as AI datacenter demand surges (theregister.com)
Schneider Electric plans to spend $700 million through 2027 to expand its US operations and bolster the supply of its power equipment necessary to sustain the proliferation of AI datacenters.

Data Centers, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Investments, Technology

4 points by rntn 8 days ago | 0 comments

Gitlab is sued by its own investors over misleading AI hype (theregister.com)
For the third time in five months, GitLab or its execs have been sued over allegedly misleading investors about AI capabilities and demand.

Lawsuits, AI, Business, Technology, Investments

22 points by AbuAssar 13 days ago | 1 comments

Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4B missing (electrek.co)
Tesla’s (TSLA) accounting practices are raising red flags as a new report from the Financial Times shows that $1.4 billion is missing.

Tesla, Finance, Accounting, Investments, Stock Market

44 points by donohoe 14 days ago | 10 comments

California Pension Fund Labels Chevron and Saudi Aramco as Climate Investments (financialpost.com)
The US’s largest pension fund has classified more than $3 billion of holdings in oil drillers, coal miners, and other major greenhouse gas producers as climate-friendly investments, according to a new analysis of public records.

Climate Change, Investments, Finance

3 points by jmsflknr 23 days ago | 0 comments

Chinese investors privately take stakes in Elon Musk's companies (ft.com)

Finance, Business, Elon Musk, China, Investments

10 points by throwaway5752 24 days ago | 2 comments

Chinese investors privately take stakes in Elon Musk's companies (ft.com)

Elon Musk, Investments, China, Business

7 points by dkobia 25 days ago | 1 comments

Solar crushed 2024, but emissions were up as industry used more natural gas (techcrunch.com)
The U.S. invested a record-breaking $338 billion in the energy transition last year, according to a new report, but it wasn’t quite enough to lessen the country’s overall carbon emissions.

Energy, Climate Change, Investments, United States

9 points by PaulHoule 30 days ago | 0 comments

TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S. (wsj.com)
WASHINGTON—Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to invest at least $100 billion more in chip-manufacturing plants in the U.S. over the next several years under a plan announced Monday by the company and President Trump.

Semiconductors, Investments, Technology, USA

490 points by perihelions 31 days ago | 1072 comments

China's Alibaba to invest US$50B in AI, cloud computing (channelnewsasia.com)
Chinese tech giant Alibaba said on Monday (Feb 24) it will spend more than US$50 billion on artificial intelligence and cloud computing over the next three years, a week after co-founder Jack Ma was seen meeting President Xi Jinping.

Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, China, Investments, Technology

5 points by 9woc 38 days ago | 0 comments

Apple will spend more than $500B in the U.S. over the next four years (apple.com)
Apple today announced its largest-ever spend commitment, with plans to spend and invest more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years.

Apple, Investments, United States, Technology, Business

47 points by meetpateltech 38 days ago | 1 comments

Hedge Funds Are Pocketing Much of Their Clients' Gains with 'No Limit' Fees (bloomberg.com)
In 2023, the main hedge fund at billionaire Dmitry Balyasny’s eponymous firm notched a gross return of 15.2%.

Hedge Funds, Finance, Investments, Fees

160 points by wslh 51 days ago | 124 comments

Amazon plans to spend $100B this year to capture once in a lifetime opportunity (cnbc.com)

Amazon, Investments, Business, Technology, Economy

9 points by jarsin 55 days ago | 6 comments

OpenAI announces SoftBank partnership as fallout from DeepSeek continues (semafor.com)
OpenAI announced a joint venture with Japan’s SoftBank on Monday, with the investment giant spending $3 billion a year to use OpenAI software, in an apparent change of strategy following DeepSeek’s unexpected rise.

OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Investments, Business, Partnerships

18 points by thunderbong 58 days ago | 17 comments

SoftBank Is Betting Billions That OpenAI's Agents Will Automate Work (gizmodo.com)
In what could be SoftBank’s newest trick to make ungodly amounts of money disappear, the Japanese investment firm will pay $3 billion a year to force companies in its portfolio to experiment with AI agents.

Artificial Intelligence, Business, Investments, Automation

15 points by rntn 58 days ago | 10 comments

SoftBank in talks to invest up to $25B in OpenAI (ft.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Business, Investments, Venture Capital

9 points by jmsflknr 63 days ago | 4 comments

RCA and the Roaring Twenties (globalfinancialdata.com)
When you think about the Roaring Twenties and the bull market that surged until 1929, the one stock that comes first in everyone’s mind is Radio Corporation of America.

History, Finance, Investments, Stock Market

61 points by benbreen 64 days ago | 27 comments

Meta to spend up to $65B this year to power AI goals, Zuckerberg says (reuters.com)

Meta, Artificial Intelligence, Investments, Technology, Business

6 points by testrun 68 days ago | 3 comments

Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers (apnews.com)
President Donald Trump on Tuesday talked up a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank.

Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Partnerships, Investments, Technology

1021 points by tedsanders 71 days ago | 1538 comments

Dutch pension funds divest from Tesla (ipe.com)
Dutch civil service scheme ABP and construction sector fund Bpf Bouw have both sold their shares in Tesla.

Finance, Investments, Tesla, Netherlands, Pension Funds

10 points by belter 72 days ago | 0 comments

Microsoft to spend $80 billion on AI data centers this year (yahoo.com)
Microsoft Corp. plans to spend $80 billion this fiscal year building out data centers, underscoring the intense capital requirements of artificial intelligence.

Microsoft, Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Investments

8 points by this_weekend 89 days ago | 0 comments

Nvidia bets on robotics to drive future growth (ft.com)

Robotics, Nvidia, Business, Technology, Investments

188 points by pella 94 days ago | 146 comments

Musk Chaos in Government Funding Process Protects His Chinese Investments (house.gov)
Earlier today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, sent a letter to congressional leadership raising concerns that Elon Musk may have upended the government funding process to remove a provision that would regulate U.S. investments in China.

Politics, Government Funding, China, Elon Musk, Investments

15 points by pmcjones 101 days ago | 0 comments

OpenAI seeks to unlock investment by ditching 'AGI' clause with Microsoft (ft.com)

OpenAI, Microsoft, Investments, Artificial Intelligence, Business

52 points by tim333 117 days ago | 76 comments

Indonesia rejects Apple's $100M investment to lift iPhone 16 sales ban (nikkei.com)
Indonesia says Apple's $100 million investment plan is not enough to end a sales ban on the iPhone 16 and that the company should consider investing in local manufacturing.

Indonesia, Apple, iPhone, Investments, Manufacturing

9 points by mikhael 129 days ago | 3 comments

Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic (cnbc.com)

Amazon, Anthropic, Investments, Artificial Intelligence, Business

666 points by swyx 132 days ago | 363 comments

Apple expands iPhone satellite services deal, commits $1.1B to expand capacity (9to5mac.com)
Satellite services provider GlobalStar today disclosed an expansion of its deal with Apple. Apple will commit an additional $1.1 billion for upfront infrastructure prepayments, to increase the capacity of satellite services. Additionally, Apple will take 20% ownership of GlobalStar, in an equity deal worth about $400 million.

Apple, Satellite Services, Investments, Business

14 points by bookofjoe 148 days ago | 0 comments

Apple is buying 20 percent of its iPhone satellite services partner (theverge.com)
Apple is taking a 20 percent stake in its iPhone satellite connectivity partner GlobalStar — a stake worth $400 million — as part of an expansion of its deal with the company.

Apple, Satellite Communications, Technology, Business, Investments

5 points by jbernardo95 153 days ago | 2 comments