Business & Industry

A wave of investment is flowing into precision-fermented dairy proteins, with French startup Standing Ovation closing a $34.2 million Series B and the broader market projected to grow from $7.4 billion to $57.1 billion by 2032.

Dell Technologies disclosed in its fiscal 2026 annual report that headcount fell to approximately 97,000, marking a third consecutive year of 10 percent reductions and a cumulative loss of 36,000 jobs since fiscal 2023, even as AI-optimized server revenue hit $9 billion in the fourth quarter alone.

Atlassian eliminates 10 percent of its workforce, including 900 R&D roles, to self-fund AI and enterprise investments while replacing its CTO amid a broader SaaS industry contraction.

The largest private funding round in history values OpenAI at $852 billion, with Amazon, SoftBank, and Nvidia among the backers.

Apple marks its 50th anniversary on April 1, 2026, with worldwide events spanning from a private Paul McCartney concert at its Cupertino headquarters to performances and art installations at flagship stores across 11 cities.

Oracle executes mass layoffs via 6 a.m. emails across the US, India, and other countries, eliminating up to 18% of its workforce to free an estimated $8-10 billion for AI infrastructure spending.

The French AI startup raised $830M from seven banks to install 13,800 Nvidia GB300 GPUs at a 44 MW facility south of Paris, as it moves from renting cloud capacity to owning infrastructure.

IBM completed its largest acquisition since Red Hat, buying data streaming company Confluent for $31 per share and delisting it from Nasdaq as it bets on real-time data as the backbone of enterprise AI.

Meta lays off roughly 700 employees across five divisions while weighing far deeper cuts of up to 20 percent of its workforce to offset AI infrastructure spending that could reach $135 billion this year.

Amazon has eliminated approximately 30,000 corporate positions since October 2025 through two rounds of layoffs, with March cuts reaching its robotics division and unconfirmed reports suggesting a third wave of 14,000 additional reductions in Q2 2026.

Mountain View startup Sunday has raised $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to bring its Memo household robot from demos to real-world deployment, with beta units heading to 50 homes by late 2026.

The 2026 tech IPO window that bankers predicted would be the busiest since 2021 has opened to near-silence, with Discord, Kraken, and Motive all stalled as a government shutdown hangover clogs the SEC pipeline and investors demand profitability over growth.