Artificial intelligence is turning out to be far more expensive than anyone expected, and CFOs at major U.S. companies are now facing a brutal new trade-off: tokens or humans. That was the picture two enterprise AI CEOs at the center of the buildout described to CNBC this week. Their accounts of what’s happening inside the…
CEO of Dell Technologies Michael Dell (L) speaks during a roundtable discussion with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Dec. 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images Michael Dell bought into President Donald Trump‘s second term early. Now his hardware company Dell Technologies is closing…
Software stocks popped on Thursday after Snowflake said it plans to spend $6 billion on compute from Amazon and topped earnings estimates on artificial intelligence momentum. Shares of the software maker surged 35% and headed for its best day ever. The company is expanding its use of Amazon’s in-house chips for AI. Along with the…
Drew Houston, chief executive officer and co-founder of Dropbox Inc., smiles during The Wall Street Journal Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019. Martina Albertazzi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Drew Houston founded Dropbox nearly two decades ago out at age 24, eventually becoming a household name in Silicon…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said that semiconductor stocks have become the market’s new center of gravity because they are the drivers of the artificial intelligence boom. “It’s a new era,” the “Mad Money” host said. “Semis are now in charge. Software is taking a back seat.” The comments came after Nvidia reported quarterly earnings Wednesday evening…
Andrew Feldman, co-founder and chief executive officer of Cerebras Systems Inc., center left, during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Thursday, May 14, 2026. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cerebras Systems‘ raucous IPO this week gave investors a taste of what’s to come in artificial…
U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth behind, speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on a flight from Dover, Delaware, to Miami, Florida, U.S., March 7, 2026. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump scooped up shares of artificial intelligence software maker Palantir weeks before he famously lauded the stock, with its…
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins told CNBC on Thursday that skyrocketing demand for artificial intelligence tools and equipment is powering the industry toward a “networking supercycle.” Shares jumped 14% and headed for their best day in more than two decades after Cisco blew past its AI infrastructure and hyperscaler guidance orders for the fiscal year and lifted…
As the ransomware industry evolves, experts are predicting hackers will only continue to find more and more ways of using the technology to exploit businesses and individuals. Seksan Mongkhonkhamsao | Moment | Getty Images Palo Alto Networks tech chief Lee Klarich said companies are losing time to step up software defenses as hackers increasingly exploit…
Boonchai Wedmakawand | Moment | Getty Images Google’s Threat Intelligence Group said in a report on Monday that it thwarted an effort by hackers to use artificial intelligence models to “plan a mass vulnerability exploitation operation.” GTIG said it has “high confidence” that it recorded hackers using an AI model to find and exploit a zero-day…
