BMS just signed a $15.2 billion drug deal with China’s biggest pharma company. The patent cliff left it no choice.
BMS just signed a $15.2 billion drug deal with China’s biggest pharma company. The patent cliff left it no choice.

  Bristol Myers Squibb has signed a deal worth up to 15.2 billion dollars with Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine, China’s largest pharmaceutical company by market capitalisation. The agreement covers 13 early-stage drug programmes across oncology, haematology, …

Kevin Hartz’s A* takes a ‘less-is-more’ approach with new $450m fund
Kevin Hartz’s A* takes a ‘less-is-more’ approach with new $450m fund

While AI peers chase billion-dollar megafunds, the Eventbrite founder’s venture firm has gone the other way. Kevin Hartz, the Eventbrite co-founder turned long-time seed investor, has closed a $450m fund at A*, his San Francisco venture firm, according…

eBay tells GameStop to keep the carpet: $56bn bid “neither credible nor attractive”
eBay tells GameStop to keep the carpet: $56bn bid “neither credible nor attractive”

Ryan Cohen offered $125 a share, partly to be funded by a $20bn TD Securities commitment letter and, briefly, by selling old store signs on eBay itself. The eBay board, which had to ban and then unban him during the process, says no. eBay has formally …

NHS England gives Palantir contractors broader access to patient data
NHS England gives Palantir contractors broader access to patient data

A leaked internal briefing note describes a new admin role on the £330m Federated Data Platform that lets external staff bypass case-by-case data approvals. Patient groups and Labour MPs have called the change dangerous. NHS England has decided to allo…

China is earning roughly $500m an hour from exports, and AI-related goods are doing the heavy lifting
China is earning roughly $500m an hour from exports, and AI-related goods are doing the heavy lifting

China’s export earnings have reached roughly $500m an hour, according to a Bloomberg calculation based on the latest customs data, with AI-related goods accounting for about half of the year-on-year growth that has driven the figure to record levels. T…

Ilya Sutskever discloses $7bn OpenAI stake during Musk-OpenAI litigation
Ilya Sutskever discloses $7bn OpenAI stake during Musk-OpenAI litigation

The former OpenAI chief scientist, who now runs Safe Superintelligence, gave the figure under oath. It places him among the largest individual shareholders in the company. Ilya Sutskever, the former chief scientist of OpenAI who now runs Safe Superinte…

The US Commerce Department deletes website details of Microsoft, Google, and xAI security-test deal
The US Commerce Department deletes website details of Microsoft, Google, and xAI security-test deal

The US Commerce Department has removed from its website the details of an agreement under which Microsoft, Google, and xAI agreed to submit new AI models to government scientists for security testing before release, Reuters reported on Monday. The orig…

Jensen Huang skips Trump’s China business delegation
Jensen Huang skips Trump’s China business delegation

The Nvidia CEO is not on the list of US executives travelling to Beijing for the Trump-Xi summit. Apple’s Tim Cook and Tesla’s Elon Musk are among those attending; the trip’s focus is reportedly agriculture, manufacturing, and aviation. NVIDIA CEO Jens…

ZoomInfo beat earnings, cut 600 jobs, and lost 29 per cent of its stock price. Its database is being repriced by AI.
ZoomInfo beat earnings, cut 600 jobs, and lost 29 per cent of its stock price. Its database is being repriced by AI.

  ZoomInfo beat its first-quarter earnings estimates, cut its full-year revenue guidance by 62 million dollars, announced a restructuring that will eliminate 600 jobs, and lost 29 per cent of its stock price in a single trading session. The company rep…

Santa Clara County sues Meta over scam ads on Facebook and Instagram
Santa Clara County sues Meta over scam ads on Facebook and Instagram

The complaint, filed on behalf of California residents, alleges Meta earns up to $7bn a year from “high-risk” scam ads and tolerated the practice. The county wants restitution, civil damages, and an injunction. Santa Clara County has sued Meta Platform…