Business headlines from the Apex backend, organized by sectors and major public companies for faster market scanning.
The German humanoid robotics startup said its latest fundraising round is the largest ever for a full-stack robotics company, underscoring rising investor interest in robots that can be built, trained and deployed end to end.
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The conglomerate says its automation business, which already generates about $17 billion in annual sales, is positioned for continued expansion even as the market focuses on how the company might restructure.
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Even with a fiscal-quarter earnings result that topped expectations and continued momentum in artificial intelligence offerings, Oracle’s stock slid. Market watchers said the company’s outlook did not add enough upside surprise to match the AI narrative.
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Stocks traded sharply mixed, with the Dow gaining roughly 400 points amid escalating U.S. strike headlines, while Oracle fell after reporting earnings.
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Oracle shares slid after its latest earnings report, and a Yahoo Finance post highlighted two analysts who argued the drop may be an overreaction versus the longer-term trajectory of Oracle’s cloud and enterprise software business.
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PepsiCo says its partnership with autonomous trucking company Gatik has already moved fully driverless freight across multiple U.S. states, a shift that suggests the company is treating automation as a core logistics lever rather than a pilot.
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The retail giant says its partnership with Wing, a drone-delivery provider, will expand to seven additional U.S. metro areas as Wing moves past 1 million commercial drone deliveries and Walmart targets broader reach among residents.
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A reported arrangement would give Google access to a large Nvidia GPU cluster via SpaceX infrastructure, underscoring how cloud, satellite, and data center capacity are converging in the AI race.
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The Japanese automaker is pushing back on elements of Europe’s evolving approach to boosting local production, arguing that new requirements could raise costs for manufacturers and complicate sourcing.
