Nvidia is talk of town at AI events before fiscal Q1 2025 earnings

Nvidia is talk of town at AI events before fiscal Q1 2025 earnings

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang displays products on-stage during the annual Nvidia GTC Artificial Intelligence Conference at SAP Center in San Jose, California, on March 18, 2024. Josh Edelson | Afp | Getty Images At the start of last week, OpenAI’s technology chief personally thanked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang for “bringing us the most … Read more

What Nvidia must deliver in earnings this week to remain AI king

What Nvidia must deliver in earnings this week to remain AI king

It’s all about to happen. But until it happens, then no money should be made waiting for it. We have to see its success to invest in it. Otherwise, the heck with it. There. That had been the bear case against artificial intelligence, generative AI, accelerated computing and large language models (LLMs), all the essential … Read more

equity markets: From Tokyo to New York, stock markets are on a record-hitting spree around the world

equity markets: From Tokyo to New York, stock markets are on a record-hitting spree around the world

From New York to London to Tokyo, if there’s one similarity among the world’s equity markets it’s this: record highs.Of the world’s 20 largest stock markets, 14 have hit all-time highs recently. The MSCI ACWI Index, which tracks developed and emerging markets, has been on a record-breaking run, setting another new high on Friday. In … Read more

Facebook and Nike diversity manager gets prison for fraud

Facebook and Nike diversity manager gets prison for fraud

Barbara Furlow-Smiles attends the 2020 Sisters’ Awards at Skirball Cultural Center on March 08, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Robin L. Marshall | Getty Images A former diversity manager at Facebook and Nike was sentenced to five years and three months in prison for stealing more than $5 million from those companies that had been … Read more

Wayfair to open first large store outside of Chicago

Wayfair to open first large store outside of Chicago

Wayfair store in Wilmette, Illinois. Courtesy: Wayfair What retail apocalypse? Online home goods retailer Wayfair is opening its first namesake store, near Chicago, following a string of other digitally native companies that have turned to brick-and-mortar for growth.  In an ironic twist for a company that became a $12 billion powerhouse by persuading consumers to … Read more

Meta slapped with child safety probe under sweeping EU tech law

Meta slapped with child safety probe under sweeping EU tech law

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images Facebook parent company Meta on Thursday was hit with a major investigation from the European Union into alleged breaches of the bloc’s strict online content law … Read more

Dell stock surges 9% on optimism company has big AI server orders

Dell stock surges 9% on optimism company has big AI server orders

Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, is speaking at the Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, on February 27, 2024. Joan Cros | Nurphoto | Getty Images Dell shares rose more than 11% on Wednesday to an all-time high after Morgan Stanley raised its price target and predicted that the company would … Read more

Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger joins Amazon-backed Anthropic

Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger joins Amazon-backed Anthropic

Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger will join Anthropic as chief product officer, the company announced Wednesday. Krieger, the former chief technology officer of Meta-owned Instagram, grew the platform to 1 billion users and increased its engineering team to more than 450 people during his time there, per a release. … Read more

Amazon goes head to head with media giants in Upfronts ads debut

Amazon goes head to head with media giants in Upfronts ads debut

Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images Amazon has become a growing threat to digital ad incumbents Meta and Google, attracting billions of dollars a quarter from brands that are trying to reach the masses of consumers who swarm to the site on a daily basis. But it’s no longer just about digital ad dollars, … Read more

Venture capital firm Accel raises $650 million Europe and Israel fund

Venture capital firm Accel raises 0 million Europe and Israel fund

From left to right, Accel general partners Harry Nelis, Sonali de Rycker, Andrei Brasoveanu, Luca Bocchio, and Philippe Botteri. Accel Venture capital firm Accel said Tuesday it’s raised $650 million for its eighth fund targeted at investing in European and Israeli early-stage startups, in a sign the venture capital market may be showing signs of … Read more