Walt Disney is seeking to expand its premium movie-theater format beyond its own films, approaching rival Hollywood studios about adopting the company's Infinity Vision brand.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. plans to increase its defense sales to at least ¥1 trillion ($6.3 billion) by the mid-2030s as Japan steps up spending to strengthen its military capabilities amid growing regional and global security challenges.

Elon Musk lost his trillionaire status again after declines in Tesla and SpaceX shares reduced the estimated value of his holdings.

Five major technology companies raised approximately $159 billion through bond issuance in the first five months of 2026, exceeding their combined bond issuance of roughly $150 billion over the entire 2020–2024 period.

British telecommunications provider O2 has extended its naming-rights partnership for London's O2 entertainment venue through 2038, renewing one of the United Kingdom's most prominent arena sponsorship agreements.

TikTok weakened its advertising enforcement rules in 2025, allowing some advertisers accused of running scams and promoting harmful products to remain on the platform

Fast Retailing Co., the Japanese operator of Uniqlo, is poised to overtake Sweden’s H&M in annual sales as it expands internationally and strengthens its position in functional, everyday clothing.

Forbes has introduced its first Agentic 20 list, highlighting companies and projects working on AI agents—systems designed to carry out tasks and take actions rather than simply respond to prompts.

TikTok's reported relaxation of advertising enforcement rules has prompted questions about whether revenue considerations influenced the company's approach to advertiser safety.

Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 5.5, a new model designed for fast, lower-cost AI tasks, including summarization, data classification, database queries and customer support.

Shares of Skydance Corporation came under pressure after the completion of Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery created a combined media company operating under the Skydance name.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is demanding answers from Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft over billions of dollars in federal tax breaks that lawmakers say are benefiting the companies as they expand their artificial intelligence and data-center investments.

More Japanese companies are reporting unauthorized access and potential data breaches, putting millions of customer records at risk and prompting investigations by companies and authorities.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has sued David Reichman, the former chairman and CEO of Global Tech Industries Group Inc., alleging that he orchestrated a yearslong scheme in which the company issued tens of millions of shares to family members, friends and associates under the false claim that the recipients had provided services.

Saudi Arabia's MDLBEAST Soundstorm music festival has been canceled for 2026, becoming the latest major entertainment event in the region to be called off amid continuing instability and uncertainty across the Middle East.

Foreign companies operating in Ukraine are facing increasing damage to their facilities as Russian attacks continue across the country, with recent strikes affecting a Japan Tobacco International factory, a GlobalLogic office building and a McDonald's warehouse. Foreign companies operating in Ukraine amid continuing Russian attacks face serious risks to their operations. [Photo: Bject, Wikimedia Commons] Japan Tobacco International (JTI) said its factory in Kremenchuk in cent

Brett Adcock has spent the past decade building companies around technologies that he believes will transform the future. His first major fortune came from Vettery, the job-search company he co-founded and sold for $110 million in 2018.

Mark Thompson will remain chairman and editor-in-chief of CNN under Skydance following the completion of Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN's parent company.

In 1966, NBC's Days of our Lives was reportedly facing cancellation when producers brought in William Bell, a veteran soap-opera writer who had already established himself in daytime television.

The Trump administration's growing use of government investments and ownership stakes in private companies has raised questions about the changing role of the US government in the economy.

Nvidia-backed startup Reflection is preparing to enter the increasingly competitive open-weight artificial intelligence market with a new model that could challenge Chinese open-weight systems and provide companies with a lower-cost alternative to leading proprietary AI models.

SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son has issued a rare warning about the safety risks posed by increasingly capable artificial intelligence, saying countries need to cooperate to manage the technology.

President Donald Trump has promoted a proposed $15 billion steel complex in southeast Iowa that would be developed by Mesabi Metallics, a company backed by India's Essar Group.

A familiar restaurant logo promises a familiar experience. Yet the meal behind that promise depends on the team working that shift, the kitchen handling the rush and the demands arriving from customers both inside and outside the dining room.