Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he met with President Donald Trump on Wednesday and that the two men discussed chip export restrictions, as lawmakers consider a proposal to limit exports of advanced artificial intelligence chips to nations like China. “I’ve said it repeatedly that we support export controls, and that we should ensure that American…
Filip Kaliszan, CEO of Verkada. Courtesy: Verkada Security technology startup Verkada has reached a $5.8 billion valuation after a new funding round led by CapitalG, Alphabet’s venture capital arm, announced Wednesday. “I think Google saw the opportunity with us in the application of AI and everything we’re driving to apply AI to the physical security…
OpenAI’s EMEA startups head Laura Modiano spoke at the Sifted Summit on Wednesday, 8 October. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT is down for some users. The company said it is “currently experiencing issues,” including “increased ChatGPT error rates,” according to an update on OpenAI’s status page. “We have applied…
Sam Altman is feeling the pressure. The OpenAI CEO sent a memo to his staffers on Monday outlining a “code red” effort to improve its chatbot ChatGPT, according to multiple reports. Altman said OpenAI will be pulling back on investments in areas like health, shopping and advertising as it works to prioritize ChatGPT, the reports…
The logo of an Apple Store is seen reflected on the glass exterior of a Samsung flagship store in Shanghai, China Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. Wang Gang | Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty Images The cost of your smartphone might rise, analysts are warning, as the AI boom clogs up supply chains and…
Instagram has installed a new privacy setting which will default all new and existing underage accounts to an automatic private mode. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Instagram will require U.S.-based employees to work five days a week in an office, Meta confirmed on Monday. The new return-to-office policy will take effect on Feb. 2 and…
Thomas Trutschel | Getty Images Shopify was hit with an outage on Cyber Monday, leaving some businesses unable to manage transactions during one of the biggest shopping days of the year. In an update to its status page, the Canadian e-commerce company said select merchants were experiencing issues logging into Shopify, while others were unable…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks at an event ahead of the COMPUTEX forum, in Taipei, Taiwan, June 2, 2024. Ann Wang | Reuters Nvidia on Monday announced it has purchased $2 billion of Synopsys‘ common stock as part of a strategic partnership to accelerate computing and artificial intelligence engineering solutions. As part of the multiyear…
A worker walks past molten steel at a steel factory in Huai’an, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on July 22, 2025. – | Afp | Getty Images China’s factory activity edged higher in November but remained stuck in contraction for the eighth consecutive month, while services weakened as the boost from earlier holidays faded, according…
Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images When ChatGPT launched in 2022, Google was caught flatfooted, but the launch of Gemini 3 and the Ironwood AI chip this month has experts raving about Alphabet’s AI comeback. Google kicked off November by unveiling Ironwood, the seventh generation of its tensor processing units, or TPUs, that…
