Alan Turing helped crack Enigma. In 1952 Britain put him on trial.
Video desk · Tue 3 Nov, 10:50
Erasmus University's switch from SAP to Oracle is €8.3 million over budget. A one-year delay cost €4.5 million of it.
Video desk · Mon 2 Nov, 18:11
Spotify moved much of its computing to Google's own chips. Google says the bill fell up to 40%.
Video desk · Mon 2 Nov, 13:29
Dimon called it "a tempest in a teapot." JPMorgan lost $6.2 billion.
Video desk · Mon 2 Nov, 10:10
SAP spent about €518 million on Prior Labs. The AI start-up brought in under €1 million of SAP's sales last quarter.
Video desk · Sun 1 Nov, 18:09
Mattel paid $3.8 billion for Kevin O'Leary's company. Then lost $601 million.
Video desk · Sun 1 Nov, 09:50
Claude maker Anthropic will likely be rated junk, Blackstone told investors. It had forecast investment grade before 2027.
Video desk · Sat 31 Oct, 18:09
Motorola's satellite network cost $5 billion. It sold for $25 million.
Video desk · Sat 31 Oct, 09:50
Palantir got £186 million more from Britain's defence ministry than its published contracts show. The FT counted £282 million in ten years.
Video desk · Fri 30 Oct, 18:09
KeyBank says Google's AI cut a 600-hour code migration to under 13 hours.
Video desk · Fri 30 Oct, 13:09
Michael Saylor lost $6 billion in a day, then bet on Bitcoin.
Video desk · Fri 30 Oct, 09:50
ServiceNow's net new AI contract value rose 65%. Its shares fell 18% after hours as its sales forecast missed estimates.
Video desk · Thu 29 Oct, 18:09
IBM lost $5 billion. Oreo's boss took over and refused a breakup.
Video desk · Thu 29 Oct, 09:31
Oracle said 13,000-plus NetSuite customers plug in Claude or ChatGPT. Its own assistant has worked only in the US and Canada.
Video desk · Wed 28 Oct, 18:10
Workday borrowed $2.5 billion at rates up to 6.5%. $1 billion of it will repay debt that cost 3.5%.
Video desk · Mon 26 Oct, 18:09
MPs wanted Palantir out of NHS data work over lock-in. Ministers will review whether to extend its contract by two years.
Video desk · Sun 25 Oct, 18:09
At 19, Bill Gates sold code for a computer he'd never seen.
Video desk · Sun 25 Oct, 09:46
Infosys cut its revenue growth forecast to 1%-2% despite $5.2 billion in large deal wins. Its results release gave no reason.
Video desk · Sat 24 Oct, 18:09
Pixar lost 90% of Toy Story 2. A home computer saved it.
Video desk · Sat 24 Oct, 09:29
About 80% of SAP's product-development work now goes into AI. Handelsblatt says it has brought little revenue so far.
Video desk · Fri 23 Oct, 18:10
An NHS ambulance service says Microsoft Copilot helped it send a smaller share of patients to A&E. Rotherham's is now 56%.
Video desk · Fri 23 Oct, 13:09
Twitter ousted Jack Dorsey in 2008. In 2015 he ran it again.
Video desk · Fri 23 Oct, 09:49
Netscape's 24-year-old co-founder was worth $58 million. Then Microsoft gave browsers away.
Video desk · Thu 22 Oct, 21:30
Deloitte Australia told about 170 staff their jobs were cut. It is hiring over 500 to run clients' back-office work.
Video desk · Thu 22 Oct, 18:09
ServiceNow software handles Panasonic Avionics' airline support. It says phone cases fell 99%.
Video desk · Thu 22 Oct, 14:49
Disney bought 8 machines from a garage. That garage became HP.
Video desk · Thu 22 Oct, 10:10
Microsoft lost a bid to appeal in a £270m licence case.
Video desk · Tue 20 Oct, 18:10
Target opened 133 stores in Canada. Two years later, all 133 closed.
Video desk · Tue 20 Oct, 09:50
Microsoft dropped Nscale's planned UK AI site. Nscale blames a London-wide grid issue.
Video desk · Mon 19 Oct, 18:09
Hotmail's founder refused Microsoft's $350 million. His own team wanted to sell.
Video desk · Mon 19 Oct, 13:50
Rinnai says Oracle's AI now reads its emailed orders. Manual order processing fell 20%.
Video desk · Mon 19 Oct, 13:09
A Soviet researcher wrote Tetris. For 12 years, he got no royalties.
Video desk · Mon 19 Oct, 09:50
Murdoch bought Myspace's parent for $580 million. Myspace sold for $35 million.
Video desk · Sun 18 Oct, 14:09
Groupon said no to Google's $6 billion. Its founder was later fired.
Video desk · Sun 18 Oct, 09:49
Broadcom sent some VMware customers quotes up 1,500%. 90% of CIOs polled weigh alternatives.
Video desk · Sat 17 Oct, 18:10
Apple tried to buy Dropbox in 2009. Its founder said no.
Video desk · Sat 17 Oct, 14:09
BlackBerry's boss saw the iPhone in 2007. He said, 'We'll be fine.'
Video desk · Sat 17 Oct, 09:49
Salesforce won a UK tax tender worth up to £2bn. HMRC first estimated £1bn.
Video desk · Fri 16 Oct, 18:10
Snapchat refused $3 billion from Facebook in 2013. Its founder was 23.
Video desk · Fri 16 Oct, 14:09
Deutsche Börse moved two data centres into Google Cloud. It says costs fell 33%.
Video desk · Fri 16 Oct, 13:29
Ross Perot walked into a Tehran prison himself. Bail was $12.75 million.
Video desk · Fri 16 Oct, 12:49
Wipro's SAP HR move was scoped at over three years. It took 13 months.
Video desk · Thu 15 Oct, 18:10
Oracle's takeover left him out of work at 64. He built Workday.
Video desk · Thu 15 Oct, 11:30
Workday unveiled four autopilot AI agents. Dow, a customer since 2019, has activated none.
Video desk · Wed 14 Oct, 18:30
Sony unveiled its Nintendo partnership in 1991. Hours later, Nintendo chose Philips.
Video desk · Wed 14 Oct, 13:49
La-Z-Boy let Workday's AI summarise up to 80,000 staff comments. It says turnover fell.
Video desk · Wed 14 Oct, 13:09
Atari started on about $500. Its Pong machine broke, jammed with quarters.
Video desk · Wed 14 Oct, 09:49
Oracle gave UCLA $3.1m in credits. UCLA's whole ERP programme cost at least $213m.
Video desk · Tue 13 Oct, 18:09
Dunelm put Google's AI on its website search. Searches finding nothing fell below 1%.
Video desk · Tue 13 Oct, 13:29
Over 100 investors said no to Canva's founder. She learned to kitesurf.
Video desk · Tue 13 Oct, 10:49
Mark Cuban put $10,000 into a radio website. Yahoo paid $5.7 billion.
Video desk · Tue 13 Oct, 08:49
Trustpilot put a Salesforce AI agent on support. Case handling time fell 45%.
Video desk · Mon 12 Oct, 13:09
EY's Americas staff fell 4.9% last year. Its revenue there rose 4.2%.
Video desk · Sun 11 Oct, 18:10
Databricks agents cut HelloFresh's ad launch from seven people to one click.
Video desk · Sun 11 Oct, 13:49
Apple offered $5 million for Adobe. Its two founders said no.
Video desk · Sun 11 Oct, 11:09
Slack's founder cried as his game died. What was left sold for about $27.7 billion.
Video desk · Sun 11 Oct, 09:49
Microsoft charged a startup $17,600 for Claude. Its $25,060 in credits did not count.
Video desk · Sat 10 Oct, 18:10
Bloomberg cashed out $10 million when fired, then sold a machine nobody had built.
Video desk · Sat 10 Oct, 13:49
Workday's finance team used its own AI. A 5-day forecast now takes under one.
Video desk · Sat 10 Oct, 13:09
Oracle's recruiters spent up to 4 days on research. ChatGPT made it 20 minutes.
Video desk · Fri 9 Oct, 13:29
Michael Dell, 18, swore off selling PCs. It lasted about 10 days.
Video desk · Fri 9 Oct, 11:29
MYOB used Zendesk's AI to automate over 90% of support. Planned hires were dropped.
Video desk · Thu 8 Oct, 13:09
Samsung burned 150,000 of its own devices. Then it overtook Nokia.
Video desk · Thu 8 Oct, 11:10
Kodak built a digital camera in 1975. Bosses asked who'd want it.
Video desk · Thu 8 Oct, 09:49
HubSpot's revenue rose 20% last quarter. Now it is cutting nearly 660 jobs.
Video desk · Wed 7 Oct, 18:09
Bundesliga put ServiceNow's AI on its fan helpdesk. Support cases fell by half.
Video desk · Wed 7 Oct, 13:09
McDonald's sold for $2.7 million to a salesman without the money.
Video desk · Wed 7 Oct, 11:09
Disney traded a sportscaster for a cartoon rabbit in 2006. But do you know how Walt Disney lost that rabbit in 1928?
Video desk · Wed 7 Oct, 09:49
The US Navy spent $754 million upgrading a cruiser. It is being scrapped.
Video desk · Tue 6 Oct, 18:05
Cisco turned down his idea in 2011. He quit and built Zoom.
Video desk · Tue 6 Oct, 14:09
Uber cut its corporate network costs in half, HPE says. Video calls got faster.
Video desk · Tue 6 Oct, 12:49
Jack Ma said KFC rejected him. Alibaba's IPO set a $25bn record.
Video desk · Tue 6 Oct, 09:49
AMD was 'on the brink of bankruptcy.' Lisa Su refused phone chips. AMD hit $1 trillion.
Video desk · Mon 5 Oct, 23:17
Capita took over 1.7 million civil service pensions. Ministers now want them back.
Video desk · Mon 5 Oct, 18:05
Infor's AI took over a distributor's invoices. Five AP staff became one.
Video desk · Sun 4 Oct, 19:09
Sara Blakely started Spanx with $5,000. A bathroom won her Neiman Marcus.
Video desk · Sun 4 Oct, 09:49
SAP's $903 million Pentagon contract guaranteed it only $100,000.
Video desk · Sat 3 Oct, 21:09
Figure's retired humanoid robots jumped into molten steel. Arnold Schwarzenegger watched.
Video desk · Sat 3 Oct, 13:49
Starbucks had six stores in 1987. Bill Gates' father saved the deal.
Video desk · Sat 3 Oct, 11:09
Phil Knight says his bank cut off Nike in 1975. Its checks started to bounce.
Video desk · Sat 3 Oct, 09:50
John Deere let one harvester driver steer two machines. The tractor beside it follows.
Video desk · Fri 2 Oct, 13:09
A highway cut off Colonel Sanders' cafe. KFC has 30,000 restaurants.
Video desk · Fri 2 Oct, 11:09
James Dyson watched a sawmill cyclone. It took 5,127 prototypes to copy.
Video desk · Fri 2 Oct, 09:49
Warren Buffett says a 12.5-cent snub led to his $200 billion blunder.
Video desk · Fri 2 Oct, 07:09
Netflix lost $57 million and offered to sell itself for $50 million.
Video desk · Thu 1 Oct, 21:29
Amazon stock crashed 80%. Jeff Bezos wrote shareholders one word: Ouch.
Video desk · Thu 1 Oct, 20:50
SpaceX launched four astronauts, then its booster flew back and landed upright.
Video desk · Thu 1 Oct, 19:29
Tesla's Cybercab drove Austin riders with no steering wheel. US regulators asked 21 questions.
Video desk · Thu 1 Oct, 13:09
Samsung made a 5.1 mm tablet that plays video for 23 hours.
Video desk · Wed 30 Sept, 19:09
OpenAI launched dots, agents that reach 4,000 apps and never log off.
Video desk · Wed 30 Sept, 13:09
Post Office called its Horizon system reliable, but 39 convictions were quashed.
Video desk · Wed 30 Sept, 10:09
Airbus took 115 orders for its new cargo jet. Today it flew.
Video desk · Tue 29 Sept, 19:09
Unitree's 19 robots danced live with 120 people. Unitree says no human steered them.
Video desk · Tue 29 Sept, 14:29
Citibank's reviewer clicked YES on a warning box. About $894 million left.
Video desk · Tue 29 Sept, 09:49
Google fired protons at AI chips to mimic five years in orbit.
Video desk · Mon 28 Sept, 19:09
Google's Gemini learned to speak in your voice from a 30-second clip.
Video desk · Mon 28 Sept, 14:09
Zuckerberg agreed to pay $1 billion for Instagram in 2012. But did you know what he wrote in an email that same day?
Video desk · Mon 28 Sept, 10:49
BMW split its next 3 Series across two plants and two platforms.
Video desk · Sun 27 Sept, 19:09
NVIDIA said its newest racks make AI answers up to 10x cheaper.
Video desk · Sun 27 Sept, 14:09
Steve Jobs helped grow Apple to $2 billion. Then he was out.
Video desk · Sun 27 Sept, 10:09
Unitree priced a human-sized robot hand with 22 joints from $6,500.
Video desk · Sat 26 Sept, 19:49
Deutsche Telekom moved 90 SAP applications to Google Cloud. SAP energy use fell 40%.
Video desk · Sat 26 Sept, 14:29
Facebook's $19 billion WhatsApp deal was signed at Koum's old welfare office.
Video desk · Sat 26 Sept, 10:36
CrowdStrike sent an update with 21 input fields. It crashed Windows.
Video desk · Sat 26 Sept, 10:29
OpenAI connected ChatGPT Voice to email, calendar and Slack. You just talk.
Video desk · Fri 25 Sept, 19:09
Google came down to $750,000, Khosla said. Excite still said no.
Video desk · Fri 25 Sept, 16:41
OpenAI's board fired Sam Altman. Over 730 staff said they may quit.
Video desk · Fri 25 Sept, 16:34
Meta moved its VR computer onto your belt. The glasses weigh about 100 grams.
Video desk · Fri 25 Sept, 13:29
AMD showed its 72-chip AI rack. Nvidia's rival ships later this year.
Video desk · Fri 25 Sept, 10:09
Anthropic ran 950 AI agents for 21 hours. They found a new enzyme system.
Video desk · Thu 24 Sept, 14:09
Sega kept paying Nvidia in 1996 for a chip Nvidia couldn't finish.
Video desk · Thu 24 Sept, 11:49
Elon Musk thought he had money for 3 launches. All 3 failed.
Video desk · Thu 24 Sept, 11:43
BMW put seven hydrogen tanks where the X5's battery sits.
Video desk · Wed 23 Sept, 19:09
Airbus has assembled over 800 jets in China. Its second line delivered its first.
Video desk · Wed 23 Sept, 13:09
Samsung Securities gave staff 2.8 billion shares by mistake. Sixteen sold some.
Video desk · Tue 22 Sept, 20:46
NVIDIA said its software fits up to 40% more chips per megawatt.
Video desk · Tue 22 Sept, 20:09
A GitLab engineer deleted about 300 GB by mistake. His own snapshot saved it.
Video desk · Tue 22 Sept, 17:43
OpenAI linked ChatGPT to 230 million legal sources. It got 54% right.
Video desk · Tue 22 Sept, 13:09
Boeing built a Navy tanker jet with no pilot. The Navy ordered three.
Video desk · Mon 21 Sept, 20:09
Knight Capital lost over $460 million in 45 minutes. Its own software did it.
Video desk · Mon 21 Sept, 18:09
SpaceX recovered a Starship that floated at sea for 33 days.
Video desk · Mon 21 Sept, 13:09
Two IBM engineers quit over a refused idea. In 1972 it became SAP.
Video desk · Mon 21 Sept, 10:13
OpenAI put ChatGPT inside Microsoft Word. Free accounts get it too.
Video desk · Sun 20 Sept, 19:07
Agility Robotics took the cage off its humanoid. It lifts 50 pounds beside people.
Video desk · Sun 20 Sept, 13:06
Figure AI's robot folded towels and made beds in 30 strangers' homes.
Video desk · Sat 19 Sept, 20:06
China's UBTECH opened a humanoid robot plant. Robots build one robot every 10 minutes.
Video desk · Sat 19 Sept, 15:06
Unitree shipped over 5,500 humanoid robots. Under 10% of its revenue came from industry.
Video desk · Fri 11 Sept, 13:06
Renault's factory humanoids overheat after two to three hours. A shift runs eight.
Video desk · Thu 10 Sept, 19:06
Hyundai wants 25,000 humanoid robots inside its car factories.
Video desk · Thu 10 Sept, 13:07
OpenAI says its new model can break into hardened systems. AWS now sells it.
Video desk · Wed 9 Sept, 19:06
34,000 pre-orders. SAP has already run the pilot.
Video desk · Wed 9 Sept, 13:07
Two robots played tennis in Beijing. Nobody held the controls.
Video desk · Tue 8 Sept, 19:06
XPENG switched on a humanoid production line yesterday. The first IRON walked off it on its own.
Video desk · Tue 8 Sept, 13:06
Meta just stopped scoring engineers on AI usage.
Video desk · Tue 8 Sept, 09:06
Santander's Getnet says Databricks freed its finance team from a month of spreadsheet checks. Country figures are now checked automatically, it says.
Intel was the memory company. Grove and Moore killed it in 1985.Oracle promised to cap new borrowing at $20 billion until 2030. A week later it offered investors $10 billion in bonds.
