NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang gestures during the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference in San Jose, California, U.S. March 17, 2026. Carlos Barria | Reuters Nvidia shares closed at a record on Friday for the first time since October, pushing the company’s market cap past $5 trillion, as investors piled into the AI chip trade ahead…
A yearslong legal brawl between Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to court in Northern California on Monday in a dramatic showdown between two of the most high-profile names in the tech industry. In his $134 billion lawsuit, Musk claimed that OpenAI, Altman and the company’s president, Greg Brockman,…
A data center owned by Amazon Web Services, front right, is under construction next to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Berwick, Pennsylvania, Jan. 14, 2025. Ted Shaffrey | AP The AI-driven data center boom in Pennsylvania — which includes a $20 billion investment from Amazon — is leading to political angst in districts in…
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…
Google, LinkedIn and Wikipedia are among hundreds of websites and apps where Meta plans to capture employee keystrokes and mouse clicks as part of a project to train its artificial intelligence models, according to internal messages viewed by CNBC. A new employee tracking tool, dubbed Model Capability Initiative (MCI), allows Meta to observe and collect…
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…
John Ternus, senior vice president of hardware engineering at Apple Inc., speaks about iMac computers during the Peek Performance virtual event in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple has maintained its dominance in consumer devices and built up a $4…
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on Sept. 6, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Marvell Technology gained nearly 6% on Monday amid reports that Google will use the chip design firm for two new chips to power artificial intelligence workloads. Until now, Google has relied on…
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…
