A logo of CLOUDFLARE sits outside the company’s house on the opening day of the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2025. Yves Herman | Reuters Cloudflare is acquiring artificial intelligence data marketplace Human Native, the company said Thursday, as it expands its push to develop transactions…
Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images AI coding startup Replit is now letting users create and publish mobile apps for Apple devices using only natural language prompts, the latest evolution in so-called vibe-coding. The Mobile Apps on Replit feature, introduced on Thursday, allows creators and small business owners to go from…
The U.S. and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement to build chips and chip factories on American soil, the Department of Commerce announced on Thursday. As part of the agreement, Taiwanese chip and technology companies will invest at least $250 billion in production capacity in the U.S., and the Taiwanese government will guarantee $250 billion…
Amazon package and Saks Fifth Avenue bag. Getty Images Amazon wants a federal judge to reject Saks Global’s bankruptcy financing plan, writing in court papers the beleaguered department store “burned through hundreds of millions of dollars in less than a year” and failed to hold up their agreement. When Saks acquired Neiman Marcus for $2.7…
TSMC offices in San Jose, California, on April 18, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday reported a 35% increase in fourth-quarter profit, beating estimates and hitting a fresh record as demand for artificial intelligence chips remained strong. Here are the company’s results versus LSEG SmartEstimates, which are weighted…
Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk’s xAI said late Wednesday that its Grok chatbot will no longer be able to create sexualized images of real people based on user prompts following extensive backlash from political figures in the U.S. and abroad. “We have implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from…
In this photo illustration, a person holds a smartphone showing Ani, an anime-style virtual assistant character featured in the Grok 4 AI chatbot developed by xAI, with the Grok logo visible in the background on July 16, 2025 in Chongqing, China. Cheng Xin | Getty Images Elon Musk‘s xAI is now facing an investigation in…
Geopolitical tensions are shaking the cybersecurity tape, impacting Club names Palo Alto Networks , CrowdStrike , and Broadcom . But they’re not changing our investment theses. Reuters reported Wednesday that Chinese authorities have told domestic companies to stop using cybersecurity software from a handful of U.S. and Israeli firms, including Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Fortinet,…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that the electric vehicle maker will stop selling its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software for a flat rate and instead make it only available as a monthly subscription. “Tesla will stop selling FSD after Feb 14,” Musk said in an early morning post on his social media platform X. “FSD…
Brian Chesky, co-founder and chief executive officer of Airbnb Inc., during a news conference in Los Angeles, California, US, on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Eric Thayer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Airbnb has tapped Ahmad Al-Dahle, former head of generative artificial intelligence at Meta Platforms, as its news technology chief, CEO Brian Chesky announced on…
