Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks at a press conference at the Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia about future visions for the development and application of artificial intelligence in education in NRW in Berlin on June 4, 2025. Soeren Stache | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Microsoft is giving employees a way to raise…
AMD CEO Lisa Su speaks at a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing in Washington on May 8, 2025. The leaders of some of the biggest technology and artificial intelligence companies will go to Congress on Thursday with a wish list of sorts that at its top has doing away with regulation they say…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday rejected concerns of market cap concentration in the Magnificent Seven, saying they are tied together because of their high growth rates rather than their products. “It’s growth that matters to stock investors, not the data center, not accelerated computing, not even artificial intelligence,” he said. “Growth is what the Magnificent…
OpenAI has signed a deal to buy $38 billion worth of capacity from Amazon Web Services, its first contract with the leader in cloud infrastructure and the latest sign that the $500 billion artificial intelligence startup is no longer reliant on Microsoft. Under the agreement announced on Monday, OpenAI will immediately begin running workloads on…
Amazon went from “Magnificent Seven” zero to hero in a matter of days. First, it was blowout earnings on Thursday night, followed by a 9.6% stock surge the next day. Then, on Monday, it was a big cloud deal with OpenAI, and the stock soared another 4.5%. Amazon came into last week’s earnings print as…
Microsoft said Monday it has secured export licenses to ship Nvidia chips to the United Arab Emirates in a move that could accelerate the Gulf’s lofty AI ambitions. The tech giant said it is the first company under U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to secure such licenses from the Commerce Department and that the approval,…
Investing is not just a game of giant Jenga. But the pessimistic hedge funds, or the ones who must have shorts on to justify their high fees, as well as their media acolytes who sound so painfully bearish even if they are just trying to sound like informed skeptics, sure make it seem that way…
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, speaks at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on April 4, 2025. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says only biological beings are capable of consciousness, and that developers and researchers should stop pursuing…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on April 4, 2025. Microsoft Corp., determined to hold its ground in artificial intelligence, will soon let consumers tailor the Copilot digital assistant to their own needs. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images…
META CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Getty Images As tech giants increase their already breathtaking spending on artificial intelligence, their respective digital advertising businesses have also gained momentum. Quarterly earnings reports this week from Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft all showed healthy revenue on the ads front. The rising online advertising…
