Mayor of San Jose, Matt Mahan, speaks during the NWSL Championship Welcome Reception at Rotunda at San Jose City Hall in San Jose, California, on Nov. 20, 2025. Eakin Howard | Nwsl | Getty Images The Democratic mayor of San Jose, California, has come out against a proposed statewide ballot measure that would ask voters…
SAN FRANCISCO — Inside Anthropic headquarters, President and co-founder Daniela Amodei keeps coming back to a phrase that’s become a sort of governing principle for the artificial intelligence startup’s entire strategy: Do more with less. It’s a direct challenge to the prevailing mood across Silicon Valley, where the biggest labs and their backers are treating…
Chipmaking stocks rallied to kick off 2026 as investors piled into the winning artificial intelligence-fueled sector following another big year of gains. Micron Technology and dutch chip equipment maker ASML jumped 10% and 9%, respectively, to start the new trading year. Lam Research and Intel rallied more than 6% each, while Marvell Technology rose 5%….
Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk speaks at a Q&A session following a tour of the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, on Sept. 23, 2025. Shelby Tauber | Pool | Reuters Three months ago Oracle named Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia as its new CEOs. They’re off to a rough start. Oracle shares have plummeted 30%…
Jonathan Ross, chief executive officer of Groq Inc., during the GenAI Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. David Paul | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia has agreed to buy Groq, a designer of high-performance artificial intelligence accelerator chips, for $20 billion in cash, according to Alex Davis, CEO of Disruptive,…
Wires and cables in a server room. Thomas Northcut | Digitalvision | Getty Images Nvidia has been the biggest infrastructure winner in the artificial intelligence boom, soaring in value by almost thirteenfold since the end of 2022 to a market cap of $4.6 trillion. While Nvidia’s rally continued in 2025, investors betting on other AI…
Direxion signage at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. The holiday-shortened week started with gains in stocks amid a broad advance that saw a continuation of the bullish momentum on Wall Street. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Motive, a company with software for managing…
ServiceNow will acquire cybersecurity startup Armis in a cash deal valued at $7.75 billion, the company said Tuesday. The enterprise software company said the deal will bolster its cybersecurity capabilities in the age of artificial intelligence and more than triple its market opportunity for security and risk solutions. “This is about making a strategic move…
Palo Alto Networks will migrate key internal workloads to Google Cloud as part of a new multibillion-dollar agreement, the companies announced Friday. The companies said the deal is an expansion of their existing strategic partnership and will deepen their engineering collaboration. Palo Alto Networks is now using Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence models to power its…
Oracle‘s stock jumped 8% Friday after the cloud provider joined a group of investors slated to lead TikTok‘s U.S. operations. In a memo to employees Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said the social media company’s U.S. division will be run by a joint venture that includes Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi-based MGX. The…
