Hong Kong Skyline Nikada | E+ | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets rose Thursday, tracking Wall Street gains after AMD’s third-quarter earnings beat lifted artificial intelligence stocks. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index was up 1.45%, while the Topix index climbed 1.11%. Shares of SoftBank, which fell 10% on Wednesday, recouped losses to gain 1.5%. Artificial intelligence-related…
Co-founder and CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang spoke to journalists during a trip to Beijing in July. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Nvidia will help train and mentor emerging deep tech startups in India as a founding member of a $2 billion investment alliance, deepening its presence in the world’s third-largest startup…
Min-Liang Tan speaks during a conference at SXSW Sydney on October 16, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. Nina Franova | Getty Images Artificial intelligence is set to have a huge impact on the gaming industry and its billions of players, according to Min-Liang Tan, the billionaire CEO and co-founder of gaming firm Razer. From the ways…
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tech’s internet giants have made it through earnings season, and they offered a consistent message to Wall Street: Artificial intelligence investments are only…
As the tech industry’s giants race to build out AI infrastructure — Microsoft spent $34.9 billion in just one quarter while Meta plans to spend up to $72 billion this year — they may not be the only ones footing the multi-hundred-billion-dollar bill. The consumer is increasingly facing AI-soaked subscription tiers as tech firms attempt to…
Semiconductor giant Nvidia is reportedly looking to make a major investment in AI software development platform Poolside. Nvidia wants to invest at least $500 million and up to $1 billion in Poolside, which builds AI models for software development. Reporting from BloombergIn which sources have been cited. The investment will be part of a $2…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers remarks next to U.S. President Donald Trump at an ‘Investing in America’ event in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2025. Leah Millis | Reuters Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is headed to South Korea, one of the company’s most important markets, ahead of meeting there between U.S. President Donald Trump and…
Elon Musk‘s Wikipedia rival Grokipedia got off to a “rocky start” in its public debut, but Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales didn’t even have to take a look at the AI’s output to know what he expected. “I’m not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now,” Wales said at the CNBC Technology Executive Council…
People pass by The Spheres in downtown Seattle, Washington, on June 25, 2025. Juan Mabromata | AFP | Getty Images Amazon said Tuesday that it will lay off about 14,000 corporate employees, marking the latest cuts in the company’s multi-year effort to rein in costs. In a blog post, the company wrote that the layoffs…
Qualcomm announced Monday that it will release new artificial intelligence accelerator chips, marking new competition for Nvidia, which has so far dominated the market for AI semiconductors. The AI chips are a shift from Qualcomm, which has thus far focused on semiconductors for wireless connectivity and mobile devices, not massive data centers. Qualcomm said that…
