SoftBank is creating a robotics company that builds data centers — and already eyeing a $100B IPO

SoftBank is creating a robotics company that builds data centers — and already eyeing a $100B IPO

Tech companies are racing to build out infrastructure that can further drive the automation boom. Now, Japanese multinational SoftBank reportedly plans to create a new company designed to automate the creation of that infrastructure. SoftBank is putting together a new business called Roze AI, the Financial Times originally reported. Roze would seek to make data…

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Nearly 13K toddler towers recalled after dozens of injuries from stools collapsing, tipping

Nearly 13K toddler towers recalled after dozens of injuries from stools collapsing, tipping

Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. Nearly 13,000 toddler towers across three brands were recalled after dozens of incidents and 21 injuries were reported due to the stools collapsing or tipping, according to federal regulators. The three affected products — Toetol Tower Stools, Wiifo Children’s Tower Stools and Amzcmj DGD Children’s Tower Stools — total…

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Small-town Virginia mayor reportedly arrested for allegedly showing up drunk to scene of train derailment

Small-town Virginia mayor reportedly arrested for allegedly showing up drunk to scene of train derailment

A recently elected mayor of a small town in Virginia was arrested Tuesday after allegedly showing up to a train derailment site while intoxicated, according to local reports. Paul Morrison, the 57-year-old mayor of Rich Creek, was taken into custody on a charge of public intoxication, WSLS reported, citing jail records.  The train derailment occurred…

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Amazon, Meta join fight to end Google Pay, PhonePe dominance in India

Amazon, Meta join fight to end Google Pay, PhonePe dominance in India

Amazon and Meta are among the big companies set to lobby India’s payments body over the dominance of Walmart-owned PhonePe and Google Pay in the country’s fast-growing instant payments network. Executives representing platforms including Amazon Pay, WhatsApp, CRED, MobiKwik, and Flipkart’s Super.money are scheduled to meet the National Payments Corporation of India on Thursday, TechCrunch…

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Kohberger defense team says it is 'appalled' by former expert's public comments about Idaho murders case

Kohberger defense team says it is ‘appalled’ by former expert’s public comments about Idaho murders case

A public rift has emerged between Bryan Kohberger’s defense lawyers and a hired expert witness following his guilty plea in the murders of four University of Idaho students. In their first public statement made outside the courtroom since Kohberger’s arrest in December 2022, Kohberger’s lawyers have accused a former defense expert, the criminologist Brent Turvey,…

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