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Lowe’s to buy Foundation Building Materials for $8.8 billion to boost contractor business  Reuters Lowe’s to acquire PE-backed Foundation Building Materials for $8.8B  Axios Lowe’s tops Home Depot with an $8.8 billion buyout deal and an earnings beat  MarketWatch Lowe’s beats on quarterly earnings, buys home pros business for $8.8 billion  CNBC Lowe’s Boosts Full-Year Revenue Outlook, to Buy Home-Professional Firm for $8.8 Billion  The …

–Enhances offering for Pro customers—–Increases Pro Penetration1—–Positions Company for Long-Term Sustainable Sales Growth and Profit Expansion– MOORESVILLE, N.C., Aug. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (“Lowe’s” or the “Company”) (NYSE: LOW) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement (the “Agreement”) to acquire Foundation Building Materials (“FBM”) for approximately $8.8 billion. FBM is a leading North American distributor of …

interview The Mozilla Foundation has changed its look, but its goals remain the same – supporting an internet that’s open and inclusive, and that prioritizes the interests of people over corporations. Yet the rebranding of the foundation in August, and of its subsidiary Mozilla Corporation last December, reflects internal changes at organizations looking to redefine themselves, to shake off setbacks, …

Meredith Gaudreau has been waiting to tell the world about the foundation that will honor her late husband, Johnny, and his brother, Matthew. On Wednesday, on what would’ve been Johnny’s 32nd birthday, she and Matthew’s wife, Madeline, will appear on ABC’s “Good Morning America” to publicly launch the John and Matthew Gaudreau Foundation. “We kind of spent the whole year …

The Gates Foundation will spend $2.5 billion by 2030 on women’s health, it said on Monday, with founder Bill Gates saying the area, including conditions from preeclampsia to menopause, had been neglected for too long. The investment is among its first big commitments since Gates announced earlier this year that he would give away his $200 billion fortune by 2045. …

Michelle Obama’s longtime aide joins family foundation  Politico Source link

THE FUTURE FOUNDATION AND SECRET WARS As the many worlds of the Multiverse began to collapse in the lead-up to SECRET WARS (2015), the Fantastic Four and the Future Foundation faced another crisis starting in FANTASTIC FOUR (2014) #1 by James Robinson and Leonard Kirk. After several giant creatures escaped from a portal in the Baxter Building, the Future Foundation …

We introduce two multilingual, multimodal foundation language models that power Apple Intelligence features across Apple devices and services: (i) a ∼3B-parameter on-device model optimized for Apple silicon through architectural innovations such as KV-cache sharing and 2-bit quantization-aware training; and (ii) a scalable server model built on a novel Parallel-Track Mixture-of-Experts (PT-MoE) transformer that combines track parallelism, mixture-of-experts sparse computation, and …

A coalition of funders, including the Gates Foundation and Ballmer Group, will spend $1 billion over 15 years to help develop artificial intelligence tools for public defenders, parole officers, social workers and others who help Americans in precarious situations. The funders announced Thursday that they will create a new entity, NextLadder Ventures, to offer grants and investments to nonprofits and …