Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the Microsoft AI Tour event in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 25, 2026. Sven Hoppe | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Prior to SpaceX’s announcement this week that it’s obtained the right to acquire Cursor for $60 billion, Microsoft looked at a potential deal for the AI coding startup, according…
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna speaks at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, on March 11, 2025. Andy Wenstrand | Sxsw Conference & Festivals | Getty Images International Business Machines CEO Arvind Krishna told CNBC on Wednesday that the Iran war and other geopolitical uncertainty are leading the company to guide cautiously. IBM beat analyst first-quarter…
FILE PHOTO: Dan Shapero, the incoming CEO of LinkedIn and then head of sales for LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions unit, poses for a photo at LinkedIn headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., on June 27, 2013. Randi Lynn Beach | The Washington Post | Getty Images Microsoft has tapped Daniel Shapero to be the new CEO of…
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…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is displayed outside a Space Exploration Technologies Corp. facility in Hawthorne, California, on March 26, 2026. Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images SpaceX said it’s struck a deal with artificial intelligence startup Cursor, obtaining the right to acquire the company for $60 billion later this year, or to…
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…
Cybersecurity and enterprise software stocks have been market dogs since the start of 2026, with fears that AI will wipe out a wide range of companies in the enterprise space dominating the narrative. But they snapped a brutal losing streak this past week, joining in the broader market rally that saw all losses from the…
For its first 30 years, Nvidia wasn’t a household name unless you were a gamer. Now, some of its original fan base feel left behind as artificial intelligence has made the chipmaker the world’s most valuable company. “The gaming segment is no longer the driving force of the company. There was one point when it…
Cerebras, a producer of chips that run artificial intelligence models, will file to go public on Friday, two people familiar with the matter told CNBC. The people spoke on condition of anonymity, in order to discuss internal matters. Cerebras declined to comment. For years, Cerebras sought to sell chips to companies, but it has begun…
Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei speaks during the 56th annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 20, 2026. Denis Balibouse | Reuters Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is meeting with Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, on Friday to discuss the company’s powerful new Mythos model that was announced earlier this…
