Tech firms bet optical networks will boost AI, 6G transition

Tech firms bet optical networks will boost AI, 6G transition

Fast adoption of e-commerce, online streaming media, and workplace productivity tools — particularly during the Covid pandemic — has massive strain on current-day telecom networks. Nurphoto | Getty Images Some of the world’s largest tech firms are backing a new kind of telecoms network which they say will help reduce overall power consumption of data-hungry … Read more

Apple, Microsoft valuations get a pass. Nvidia does not but should

Apple, Microsoft valuations get a pass. Nvidia does not but should

We don’t care at which price Apple trades. When it was at $165 per share not that long ago, we thought the Club’s original “own it, don’t trade it” stock was momentarily expensive. Then nothing happened, and we had an ascent based on a momentary belief that the iPhone 16 would have some good artificial … Read more

Nvidia is little known despite topping $3 trillion in market cap

Nvidia is little known despite topping  trillion in market cap

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang makes a speech at an event at COMPUTEX forum in Taipei, Taiwan June 4, 2024.  Ann Wang | Reuters Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google were the four leading global brands at the end of 2023, according to consulting firm Interbrand. They’re are also four of the world’s five most valuable companies. … Read more

Apple Intelligence AI not coming to Europe this year

Apple Intelligence AI not coming to Europe this year

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, US, on Monday, June 10, 2024.  David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple said Friday it won’t release several upcoming features unveiled this month, including its flagship “Apple Intelligence” AI product, in … Read more

Recession risk remains low despite jump in unemployment rate, experts say

Recession risk remains low despite jump in unemployment rate, experts say

People walk past a restaurant, with a hiring sign outside, in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 5, 2023. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images The unemployment rate, which has remained low for two years, has been inching higher in the first half of the year, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For … Read more

Millionaire founders’ advice for success —get started, show passion

Millionaire founders’ advice for success —get started, show passion

Shawn Tsao, co-founder of food-delivery app Caviar. It may not be easy to build a successful business from scratch — but it’s proven to be possible. Throughout my time working at CNBC, I’ve chatted with different entrepreneurs, from people who started successful side hustles to the founders of global unicorn companies. Ultimately, I’ve found that it … Read more

Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI announced

Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI announced

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI competitor Anthropic on Thursday announced Claude 3.5 Sonnet, its most powerful artificial intelligence model yet. Claude is one of the chatbots that, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google‘s Gemini, has exploded in popularity in the past year. Anthropic, which was founded by ex-OpenAI research executives, has backers including Google, Salesforce and Amazon. … Read more

YouTube sensation Caspar Lee on why he quit to build a business empire

YouTube sensation Caspar Lee on why he quit to build a business empire

30-year-old Caspar Lee was once a YouTube megastar and is now a serial entrepreneur. Caspar Lee Caspar Lee belongs to a crop of content creators who found early success on YouTube back in the 2010s, commanding millions of views on the platform. The 30-year-old serial entrepreneur, who was born in England and raised in Knysna, … Read more

Europe’s top-funded genAI startups founded by ex-Big Tech staff: Accel

Europe’s top-funded genAI startups founded by ex-Big Tech staff: Accel

French founder of artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI, Arthur Mensch, attends the Viva Technology show at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris, France, on May 22, 2024. Chesnot | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Most of the top-funded generative artificial intelligence companies in Europe were founded by entrepreneurs with experience at U.S. … Read more

Solar is growing faster than any energy source as clean power for data centers

Solar is growing faster than any energy source as clean power for data centers

Aerial view of the Oberon Solar O&M farm on March 24, 2024 in Ector County, Texas. In 2023, Texas led the nation in solar installations on its power grid, surpassing California for its second consecutive year.  Brandon Bell | Getty Images Solar is booming in the United States as power demand surges, outpacing the growth … Read more