After years of producing chips that can both train artificial intelligence models and handle inference work, Google is separating those tasks into distinct processors, its latest effort to take on Nvidia in AI hardware. Google said Wednesday that it’s making the change for the eighth generation of its tensor processing unit, or TPU. Both chips…
Apple CEO Tim Cook laughs with President Donald Trump during a meeting in the White House, Washington, March 6, 2019. Leah Millis | Reuters President Donald Trump praised Tim Cook in a lengthy Truth Social post on Tuesday, calling the outgoing Apple CEO an “incredible guy” and boasting that Cook had appealed to him when…
Apple is adding a new CEO to its ranks and continuing a long-running tradition of internal promotion. The iPhone maker on Monday announced that CEO Tim Cook will step down as chief executive in September and named senior vice president of hardware engineering John Ternus as his successor. Cook will serve as executive chairman. He…
John Ternus, senior vice president of hardware engineering at Apple Inc., speaks about iMac computers during the Peek Performance virtual event in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple has maintained its dominance in consumer devices and built up a $4…
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on Sept. 6, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Marvell Technology gained nearly 6% on Monday amid reports that Google will use the chip design firm for two new chips to power artificial intelligence workloads. Until now, Google has relied on…
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, speaking with CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 20, 2026. CNBC Amazon has agreed to invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic, on top of the $8 billion that it has poured into the artificial intelligence startup in recent years, as part of an expanded agreement…
San Jose CA, commercial hub of silicon valley and its network of freeways. Steve Proehl | The Image Bank | Getty Images Despite the C-suite’s enthusiasm over artificial intelligence agents that can plow through office tasks like never-sleeping interns, the underlying technology is still rickety and a potential cost-sucker. That much was clear this week…
The Cursor logo arranged on a smartphone in New Hyde Park, New York, Nov. 20, 2025. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial intelligence startup Cursor is in talks to raise a $2 billion fundraising round at an over $50 billion valuation, which does not include the investment, a source familiar with the matter…
When the stock market opens on Monday, we will once again face the interaction between bonds and oil. Over the weekend, we saw the breakdown of the Strait of Hormuz opening deal and the ramp-up of President Donald Trump ‘s willingness to go back to bombing mode. I read that there are no more targets,…
Conflict in the Middle East has sent the market on a wild ride, but investors with a long-term horizon ought to look past short-term disruptions to find compelling stocks. Choosing the right stocks can be challenging due to the vast universe of equities available. Investors can consider the ratings of top Wall Street analysts as…
