OpenAI CEO Sam Altman walks through the Hart Senate Office Building following meetings on Capitol Hill, in Washington, June 3, 2026. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters OpenAI is in discussions with Nvidia about a backstop of up to $250 billion that would help fund its ambitious plans to lease a massive new artificial intelligence data center,…
U.S. and Chinese companies have come to dominate the global artificial intelligence race. Imen Ben Youssef | Afp | Getty Images Hi, this is Evelyn, writing to you from Beijing. Welcome to the latest edition of The China Connection — a snapshot of what I’m seeing and hearing from local businesses. As Chinese startups build…
Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Ruhani Kaur | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on Monday that his company has “never advocated for a ban on open-weights models,” an attempt to beat back criticism emerging across…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday said the latest chapter of the artificial intelligence boom is reviving memories of the excesses that fueled the dot-com bubble. “I lived through 2000,” the “Mad Money” host said. “I don’t want the sequel.” On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Nvidia was discussing a $250 billion backstop for…
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 21: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appears during a news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump announced an investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and took questions on a range of topics including his presidential pardons…
Apple passed Nvidia on Monday for the title of world’s most valuable company, with the iPhone maker topping the artificial intelligence chip firm at market close for the first time since April 2025. Shares of Nvidia fell 5% on Monday, giving the chipmaker a valuation of $4.77 trillion, as AI chip stocks in general declined…
My top 10 things to watch Monday, July 27 1. Futures are surging this morning , and oil prices are tumbling after the U.S. and Iran paused fighting over the weekend. Nasdaq is leading the way, up about 1.4%. WTI crude is down about 7% to under $84 a barrel, on pace for its biggest…
Nvidia and a host of tech giants on Monday launched a new AI safety initiative focused on open models, as the fallout from a cyber attack committed by a rogue OpenAI model continues. Last week, it emerged that the target of the attack, startup Hugging Face, was unable to use leading U.S. frontier models to…
It’s not the spend, it’s the return. That’s what Friday’s technology stock plunge said. I think it just might be the most significant tech selloff in more than a year. We need to know — potentially — what we are facing. We need to know if the trillion-dollar spigot is drying up — or it…
Amazon , Meta Platforms , Microsoft and Apple headline the busiest week of this summer earnings season. Plus, the Federal Reserve holds its July policy meeting, which adds intrigue following rekindled Middle East tensions. 1. Earnings: We’ve got 10 Club names reporting this week, including the other three hyperscalers on the heels of Alphabet earnings…
