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Big Tech Has Committed $1.2 Trillion to Unbuilt Data Centres
Moody's warned this week that unprecedented AI spending is threatening the credit quality of the largest technology companies. The number that should hold executive attention is not the capital expenditure figure. It is the 1.2 trillion dollars in lease commitments sitting off the balance sheet, most of it attached to data centres that have not been built.
The Sign-Off: How Boeing Won Back the Right to Certify Its Own Planes
Seven years after regulators took away Boeing's right to declare its own airplanes safe, the FAA is handing back the pen. The restoration is built on an unusual experiment, and it is also a wager the whole industry will be watching.
Meta hired a man who has never run a profitable company. That is the whole point.
Kunal Shah built CRED into one of India's most beloved and most cash-burning fintech brands. Now he's running WhatsApp, and Meta's real ambition, written in a reported $900 million stake in his company, is to turn three billion conversations into a payments-led superapp.
The 2026 Startup Surge: Why AI Is Making Bootstrapped Empires Possible Again
The startup playbook has fundamentally changed: founders can now build globally scalable companies with tiny teams powered by autonomous AI agents instead of massive venture funding. In the agentic era, execution speed and strategic clarity matter more than pedigree, headcount, or access to capital.
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