Tech’s splurge on AI chips has Meta, Alphabet, Tesla in ‘arms race’

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been assembling a large stockpile of Nvidia chips, spending billions of dollars so his company can develop and train advanced … Read more

20 employees cut following $500 million funding

Cohere, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-Google AI researchers and backed by Nvidia, cut about 20 roles on Tuesday, CNBC confirmed. The layoffs at Cohere, which had about 400 employees according to the company, follow the completion of a $500 million funding round from investors including AMD, Salesforce, Oracle and Nvidia that valued the company at … Read more

Cohere CEO and ex-Google researcher Aidan Gomez on how AI makes money

Aidan Gomez was an intern at Google Brain in 2017, when he helped co-author the “Attention Is All You Need” paper that conceptualized the transformer and eventually kicked off the generative artificial intelligence boom. “There’s no one in the field who was around back then working who could have foreseen where we are in terms … Read more

Brain implant Paradromics launches patient registry

Think a friend or colleague should be getting this newsletter? Share this link with them to sign up. Aamir Ahmed Khan, PhD, Principal Electrical Engineer for Paradromics, works on the Transceiver which connects to the brain implants.  Austin based Paradromics is developing a brain-computer interface to aide disabled and non-verbal patients with communication.  Julia Robinson … Read more

Tech founders are shunning IPOs after extended market lull: Techstars

Pedestrians pass the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Silicon Valley is known for producing tech businesses that start in garages and turn into massive publicly traded companies ubiquitously known across the globe. From Oracle and Microsoft to Google and Facebook, the public … Read more

Investors think Trump is better for stocks, CNBC Delivering Alpha survey shows

People walk by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on June 18, 2024 in New York City.  Spencer Platt | Getty Images Former President Donald Trump is the clear favorite when it comes to the stock market, according to the latest results of CNBC’s Delivering Alpha Stock Survey. Of the 400 investors, traders and money … Read more

Eli Lilly, drugmakers show off weight loss drug data

An injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, is displayed in New York City on Dec. 11, 2023. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Think a friend or colleague should be getting this newsletter? Share this link with them to sign up. Good morning! Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and other drugmakers showed off encouraging data … Read more

Nvidia (NVDA) stock rout leaves global chip shares volatile

The logo of Nvidia Corporation is seen during the annual Computex computer exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan, May 30, 2017. Tyrone Siu | Reuters Global semiconductor stocks saw volatile trading on Tuesday after a slump in shares of Nvidia during the previous session. Shares of chip firms in Europe and Asia fell in early trade as investors reacted … Read more

Oracle warns that a TikTok ban would hurt business

Oracle CEO Safra Catz, center, departs following a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 18, 2024. Chief executives from major companies including Palantir Technologies and Oracle Corp. met with senators at the Capitol Tuesday to press for US support of Israel amid its invasion of Gaza, while seeking a way to release hostages … Read more

The 4 things we’re most focused on in the stock market this week

The Nasdaq Composite inched higher Friday to claim its fifth straight record close, as new data this past week showed a continued cooling of inflation and Treasury yields retreated. For the week: The tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 3.2%, while the S & P 500 rose 1.6% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.5%. Economic updates … Read more