Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky speaks with Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei during AWS re:Invent 2023, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, at The Venetian Las Vegas in Las Vegas on Nov. 28, 2023. Noah Berger | Getty Images Almost three years into a largely dormant IPO cycle, venture capitalists are in … Read more
A sign that reads “Epic Intergalactic Headquarters” on campus. Epic Systems Dorothy Gale was right — the Land of Oz is not in Kansas. Rather, it’s nestled within the rolling green fields of Verona, Wisconsin, a town of nearly 16,400 people located about 10 miles southwest of the capital city of Madison. Verona is home … Read more
Eric Schmidt, who led Google for a decade, told Stanford students that, while he’s not one to give investment advice, he sees an obvious play in the stock market that doesn’t involve buying shares of his former employer. Schmidt said, in a video that was posted by Stanford this week and subsequently removed, that big … Read more
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during morning trading on March 4, 2024 in New York City. Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need … Read more
Microsoft fired back at Delta Air Lines on Tuesday after the carrier said it would seek damages from the software giant and CrowdStrike for thousands of flight cancellations in the wake of a massive IT outage. Delta struggled more than rival airlines to recover from the outage, cancelling more than 5,000 flights in the days … Read more
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman speaks during CNBC Power Lunch on July 1, 2024. CNBC Amazon said Thursday that revenue in its cloud division increased 19% in the second quarter, beating analysts’ estimates. The company reported revenue for Amazon Web Services of $26.28 billion. Analysts surveyed by StreetAccount had expected $26.02 billion. AWS is … Read more
Google CEO Sundar Pichai (L) and Apple CEO Tim Cook (R) listen as U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a roundtable with American and Indian business leaders in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 23, 2023. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Apple said on Monday that the artificial intelligence … Read more
Thanks to the artificial intelligence boom, new data centers are springing up as quickly as companies can build them. This has translated into huge demand for power to run and cool the servers inside. Now concerns are mounting about whether the U.S. can generate enough electricity for the widespread adoption of AI, and whether our … Read more
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
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
