By Marie Mannes, Christina Amann and Emma-Victoria Farr STOCKHOLM/BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Northvolt asked more than 100 shareholders at a meeting this month to provide $1.29 billion over the next two years to help restore the bankrupt Swedish battery maker’s business, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Considered Europe’s best shot at a home-grown…
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Helion, a startup working to generate electricity from nuclear fusion, on Tuesday said it has raised $425 million in venture funding from a group of investors including SoftBank Group’s Vision Fund 2. The Everett, Washington-based Helion said the funding will help it speed up the development of its next generation…
By Tom Polansek and Juveria Tabassum (Reuters) – Smithfield Foods does not plan to close more U.S. pork processing plants, Chief Executive Shane Smith said on Tuesday, as the company returned to a U.S. exchange after more than a decade in a spinoff by Hong Kong-based WH Group. The biggest U.S. pork processor also is…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lamb Weston shareholders love the French fry maker’s products but are unhappy with management, activist investor Jana Partners told the company’s board on Monday, signaling that it may launch a board fight later this year. The investment firm, which owns more than 5% of the roughly $9 billion company, polled Lamb…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Justice Department is firing more than a dozen officials who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s cases against President Donald Trump on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat and mishandling of classified documents, Fox News reported on Monday. The officials were fired after Acting Attorney General James McHenry said…
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -Technology shares around the world slid on Monday as a surge in popularity of a Chinese discount artificial intelligence model shook investors’ faith in the AI sector’s voracious demand for high-tech chips. Startup DeepSeek has rolled out a free assistant it says uses lower-cost chips and less data, seemingly challenging a widespread…
By Prakhar Srivastava and Pritam Biswas (Reuters) -Metsera, which is developing weight-loss drugs, said on Monday it is seeking a valuation of up to $1.78 billion in its U.S. IPO, aiming to capitalize on Wall Street’s insatiable appetite for such treatments. Hopes of a soft landing for the U.S. economy and expectations of a more…
By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Nvidia on Monday said Chinese AI firm DeepSeek’s advances show the usefulness of its chips for the Chinese market and that more of its chips will be needed in the future to meet demand for DeepSeek’s services. Nvidia issued a statement on Monday after its shares tumbled 17% on…
By Aditya Soni and Zaheer Kachwala (Reuters) – Chinese startup DeepSeek’s cheaper AI is sharpening investor scrutiny of the billions U.S. tech giants are pouring to develop the technology and analysts say it will dominate this week’s much-awaited results from industry bellwethers. DeepSeek has claimed it took just two months and cost under $6 million…
(Reuters) -Siemens Energy, the world’s biggest maker of offshore wind turbines, reported on Monday a preliminary first-quarter revenue of 8.94 billion euros ($9.37 billion), up 18.4% on a comparable basis and slightly above consensus estimates. The firm’s preliminary order intake figures stood at 13.67 billion euros for the quarter, down 10.2% on a comparable basis,…
