Alphabet’s health tech subsidiary Verily used the health data of more than 25,000 patients without authorization and actively covered up those violations, a former company executive alleges. The executive, Ryan Sloan, claims Verily fired him after he discovered breaches of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, and reported his concerns to the…
Oracle stock roared 40% higher on Wednesday after reporting gobsmacking cloud demand numbers, setting the company on track for a historic gain. The cloud giant is on pace for its best day since 1992, and is now quickly approaching the $1 trillion market cap benchmark. Oracle is now at $950 billion. The company said Tuesday…
Oracle CEO Safra Catz, center, speaks during a dinner at the White House in Washington on Sept. 4, 2025. President Donald Trump hosted technology and business leaders for dinner after they joined First Lady Melania Trump’s meeting of the Artificial Intelligence Education Task Force at the White House. Alex Wong | Getty Images Oracle shares…
A smartphone with the logo of U.S. artificial intelligence company Cognition AI Inc. Timon Schneider | SOPA Images | Sipa USA | AP Cognition, the artificial intelligence startup that acquired Windsurf in July, said on Monday that it closed a $400 million funding round at valuation of $10.2 billion, which includes the fresh capital. The…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer reviewed a number of pessimistic sentiments on Wall Street over the past several months that have largely blown over, saying on Monday that sometimes market negativity is overhyped. “You can always find something wrong if you really want to. It’s so easy that you can gin up mistakes on a daily basis,”…
Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of Nebius Group soared more than 60% in extended trading on Monday after the provider of Nvidia graphics chips for training artificial intelligence models said it’s signed an agreement with Microsoft worth up to $19.4 billion over five years. Nebius, which is based in…
The stock market kicked off the historically tough month of September on a rocky note as Wall Street speculated about the magnitude of the Federal Reserve’s next interest rate decision. Initially, the S & P 500 and Nasdaq hit all-time intraday highs Friday morning as investors digested a slower-than-expected August jobs growth . The weak…
Another Broadcom earnings report, another breathtaking stock reaction in response. Shares of the AI chipmaker are soaring almost 11% Friday, sending the stock to a fresh all-time high and putting its market capitalization north of $1.5 trillion. The monster move evokes what we saw from Broadcom back in December, when shares flew 24% in a…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered $100 million signing bonuses to top OpenAI employees. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The artificial intelligence arms race is heating up, and as tech giants scramble to come out on top, they’re dangling millions of dollars in front of a small talent pool of specialists in what’s…
Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai meets with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at Google for Startups in Warsaw, Poland, on February 13, 2025. Klaudia Radecka | Nurphoto | Getty Images From the courtroom to the boardroom, it was a big week for tech investors. The resolution of Google’s antitrust case led to sharp rallies…
