Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the World Economic Forum in 2025. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is doing all it can to keep pace with larger rival OpenAI, which is spending money at a historic pace with backing from Microsoft and Nvidia. Of late,…
Sam Altman didn’t set out to compete with Nvidia. OpenAI began with a simple bet that better ideas, not better infrastructure, would unlock artificial general intelligence. But that view shifted years ago, as Altman realized that more compute, or processing power, meant more capability — and ultimately, more dominance. On Monday morning, he unveiled his…
BlackRock is seeing a shift among Big Tech investors. Jay Jacobs, the firm’s U.S. head of equity ETFs, finds they’re going for targeted themes like artificial intelligence. “One of the biggest trades we’re seeing this year is simply people leaving the traditional tech sector and getting more granular into AI-specific ETFs, like BAI [the iShares…
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, left, and Lisa Su, chair and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices, arrive for a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI and Advanced Micro Devices have reached a deal…
Fresh off a $6.6 billion share sale that made it the world’s most valuable private company, OpenAI’s TikTok-style video app, powered by its new artificial intelligence model, Sora 2, is going viral. Despite the gated release that requires an invite code, the video creation tool has already shot to the number three spot on Apple‘s…
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI has finalized a secondary share sale totaling $6.6 billion, allowing current and former employees to sell stock at a record…
It’s a partnership designed to give retail investors more access to a rapidly expanding asset class: Private credit. Simplify Asset Management and VettaFi launched the actively managed Simplify VettaFi Private Credit Strategy ETF (PCR) on Wednesday. “The role of private credit in the portfolio is something that has historically only been available to very high-net…
Gold keeps trading up to new record high prices. Bitcoin, while struggling to break out above recent record levels above $100,000, continues to find more mainstream adoption. But both the classic market safe-haven and its more risky new crypto rival are doing something other than just move up and to the right on the chart…
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images ABILENE, Texas — Sam Altman stood on a patch of hot Texas dirt, the kind that turns to dust storms on…
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (L), and Jensen Huang CEO of Nvidia. Reuters ABILENE, Texas – Sam Altman had a deadline. OpenAI’s CEO was headed to Texas to unveil his company’s next big infrastructure push, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wanted in on the action. Through a series of hurried negotiations, late-night calls and last-minute…
