Nvidia announces GB200 Blackwell AI chip, launching later this year

Nvidia announces GB200 Blackwell AI chip, launching later this year

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers a keynote address during the Nvidia GTC Artificial Intelligence Conference at SAP Center on March 18, 2024 in San Jose, California.  Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Nvidia on Monday announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips and software for running artificial intelligence models. The announcement, made during Nvidia’s developer’s … Read more

FTC investigating Reddit over AI data-licensing practices ahead of IPO

FTC investigating Reddit over AI data-licensing practices ahead of IPO

Mateusz Slodkowsk | Lightrocket | Getty Images Reddit said Friday that the Federal Trade Commission sent a letter to the company about it’s data-licensing business related to the training of third-party artificial intelligence systems. “On March 14, 2024, we received a letter from the FTC advising us that the FTC’s staff is conducting a non-public … Read more

Short sellers pull down U.S. companies to pay for coke

Short sellers pull down U.S. companies to pay for coke

Palantir CEO Alex Karp skewered short sellers — investors who bet on the decline in a company’s stock price — in an interview with CNBC on Wednesday. “I love burning the short sellers,” Karp told CNBC’s Sara Eisen on “Money Movers.” “Almost nothing makes a human happier than taking the lines of cocaine away from … Read more

Stripe reveals it passed $1 trillion in total payment volume in 2023

Stripe reveals it passed  trillion in total payment volume in 2023

Fintech giant Stripe revealed in its annual letter published on Wednesday that it surpassed $1 trillion in total payment volume in 2023, up 25% from 2022. The milestone, which comes 15 years after the company was founded, offers a glimpse into the financials of one of the world’s largest private companies and how fast it’s … Read more

Apple will allow iPhone app downloads from websites in Europe

Apple will allow iPhone app downloads from websites in Europe

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., speaks during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California, U.S., on Monday, June 4, 2018.  David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images IPhone users in the European Union will be able to download apps from websites, instead of through the App Store or … Read more

Oracle shares rise on better-than-expected quarterly earnings

Oracle shares rise on better-than-expected quarterly earnings

Larry Ellison, co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle Corp., speaks during the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Oct. 22, 2018. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oracle reported quarterly earnings on Monday that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations. The shares rose over 8% in extended trading. Here’s how the company did: Earnings: … Read more

Reddit to raise nearly $750 million in upcoming IPO

Reddit to raise nearly 0 million in upcoming IPO

In this photo illustration, the Reddit logo is displayed on a cell phone and computer monitor on February 13, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.  Mario Tama | Getty Images Reddit aims to raise up to $748 million as part of its upcoming IPO, in which the social media company is seeking a valuation of about … Read more

Ahead of elections, candidates debate whether to ban TikTok or use it

Ahead of elections, candidates debate whether to ban TikTok or use it

TikTok Music has launched on Wednesday in Australia, Singapore and Mexico to a small group of users. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images When Joe Biden joined TikTok on the eve of the Super Bowl last month, political scientist Maggie Macdonald was struck by what she called the “meta” nature of the president’s first … Read more

Apple reverses course, approves Epic Games for app store in Europe

Apple reverses course, approves Epic Games for app store in Europe

Tim Sweeney, chief executive officer of Epic Games Inc., speaks during an interview in Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021.  SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple has approved Epic Games’ developer account in Sweden, which will allow the company to offer an competing app store on iPhones in Europe under a … Read more

Facebook working on single AI model to power all video recommendations

Facebook working on single AI model to power all video recommendations

Omar Marques | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Meta’s hefty investment in artificial intelligence includes development of an AI system designed to power Facebook’s entire video recommendation engine across all its platforms, a company executive said Wednesday. Tom Alison, the head of Facebook, said part of Meta’s “technology roadmap that goes to 2026” … Read more