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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says markets ‘got it wrong’ on AI threat to software companies
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 6, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday markets have miscalculated the AI threat to software companies in an interview hours after the chip behemoth issued an upbeat […]
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Wall Street priced an AI apocalypse in software, but Jim Cramer says reality is less dire
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday that he believes plenty of software companies will survive the threat of AI disruption, rejecting the most doomsday predictions. Still, he cautioned that investors also shouldn’t hold their breathes for a return to the glory days when investors paid major premiums for their stocks. “The software companies are survivors. They […]
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Former Alphabet ‘moonshot’ robotics company Intrinsic is folding into Google
Google is folding in former moonshot robotics software company Intrinsic as Alphabet tries to streamline its ambitions in the space. After five and a half years developing its technology at Alphabet’s “moonshot factory” X, Intrinsic became an independent Alphabet company in its “Other Bets” division in July 2021. The Google parent company announced Wednesday that […]
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Salesforce commits $50 billion for new buybacks as revenue guidance falls short
Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce Inc., during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Salesforce shares slipped 3% in extended trading on Wednesday after the customer service software maker reported healthy results and boosted its long-range revenue goal, although its […]
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Nvidia set to report quarterly results after the bell
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the 2026 CES event in Las Vegas, Jan. 6, 2026. Bridget Bennett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia is scheduled to report fiscal fourth-quarter results after the close of regular trading on Wednesday. Here’s what Wall Street is expecting, according to LSEG consensus estimates: EPS: $1.53 adjusted Revenue: $66.2 […]
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Samsung’s S26 gives an advance look at what the Google-powered Apple Siri could do
The Gemini AI assistant on a Samsung 26S Ultra smartphone during a product preview event in San Francisco, California, US, on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Samsung on Wednesday unveiled the Galaxy S26 series, its latest flagship smartphone lineup that puts Alphabet‘s Gemini artificial intelligence front and center. […]
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Why has the software sell-off been so extreme? Look to this arcane way to value stocks
Why has the sell-off in software stocks — driven by artificial intelligence disruption fears — been so dramatic and seemingly unending? In this Club Check-in, CNBC’s Paulina Likos and Zev Fima answer that question by diving into an important concept that investors use to evaluate stocks called terminal value. Software profits have not collapsed, and […]
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Thrive Capital invested about $1 billion in OpenAI at a $285 billion valuation, source says
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends an event to pitch AI for businesses in Tokyo, Feb. 3, 2025. Kim Kyung-hoon | Reuters Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital invested roughly $1 billion in OpenAI at a $285 billion valuation in December, a source confirmed Wednesday. It is a preferential deal for the venture capital firm that has long […]
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Samsung launches S26 smartphone as sector braces for memory chip crunch
Samsung Electronics unveiled its latest series of flagship smartphones on Wednesday, with two of the models costing $100 more than their predecessors as the industry tries to recover from a global shortage of memory chips. Samsung is touting improved AI and a privacy display in its new models against a backdrop of industry-wide memory chip […]
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Bill Gates addresses Epstein files in candid town hall days after last-minute speaking cancellation
Bill Gates, chair of the Gates Foundation, speaks at the Bloomberg Philanthropies 2025 Global Business Forum in New York on Sept. 24, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bill Gates spoke about his association with Jeffrey Epstein in a town hall meeting with employees of the Gates Foundation, a spokesperson for the nonprofit […]
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