Nvidia co-founder Curtis Priem made a gift of more than $75 million to Rensselaer Polytechnic to provide the Troy, N.Y., school with quantum-computing services, a first for a university campus anywhere in the world.
Behind Zuckerberg’s contrarian strategy to give away Meta’s artificial-intelligence technology is a bet that making Silicon Valley’s hottest new offering free will drive down competitors’ prices and spread Meta’s version more broadly.
Trex, a maker of weatherproof decking, will invest $450 million to boost capacity and give the company a firm footing in the South, bucking forecasts for a decline in home-improvement spending.
The weak yen is dividing Japan into the haves and the have-less, where consumers with dollars and euros live well and those who hold only the domestic currency make do.
