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Microsoft faces uphill climb to turn enterprise dominance into widespread AI chatbot adoption
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Microsoft Build AI Day in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Adek Berry | AFP | Getty Images On Microsoft’s earnings call last month, CEO Satya Nadella boasted about the company’s artificial intelligence products, and said over 150 million people are using its Copilot assistant for productivity, cybersecurity, coding […]
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Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup’s robots could ‘fracture a human skull’
Startup Figure AI is developing general-purpose humanoid robots. Figure AI Figure AI, an Nvidia-backed developer of humanoid robots, was sued by the startup’s former head of product safety who alleged that he was wrongfully terminated after warning top executives that the company’s robots “were powerful enough to fracture a human skull.” Robert Gruendel, a principal […]
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How Alibaba quietly became a leader in AI
From a Hangzhou startup to a global tech powerhouse, uncover the strategies that turned Alibaba into a multi-billion-dollar empire. Alibaba is transforming itself from an e-commerce giant into a global AI powerhouse. The Chinese tech giant has pledged tens of billions of dollars in investment in AI and cloud infrastructure, fueling the development of its own Qwen language models, the Quark […]
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Here are real AI stocks to invest in and speculative ones to avoid
Concerns about stock valuations in companies tied to artificial intelligence knocked the market around this week. Whether these worries will recede, as they did Friday, or flare up again will certainly be something to watch in the days and weeks ahead. We understand the concerns about valuations in the speculative aspects of the AI trade, […]
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Govini founder Eric Gillespie released on $1 million bond with Pentagon probe ‘ongoing’
Mug shot of Eric Gillespie, Govini Founder and Chairman. Courtesy: Pennsylvania Attorney General Govini founder Eric Gillespie, who is charged with four felonies, including multiple counts of unlawful contact with a minor, was released on bail. Gillespie, who lives in Pittsburgh, posted a $1 million bond after his court appearance Thursday. He is not allowed to […]
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Google must double AI serving capacity every 6 months to meet demand, AI infrastructure boss tells employees
Amin Vahdat, VP of Machine Learning, Systems and Cloud AI at Google, holds up TPU Version 4 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, on July 23, 2024. Marc Ganley Google ‘s AI infrastructure boss told employees that the company has to double its serving capacity every six months in order to meet demand for […]
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Tech stocks set for big losing week as AI names get rocked after Nvidia earnings
Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder and CEO, has a Q&A session at a press conference during the APEC CEO summit on October 31, 2025 in Gyeongju, South Korea. Woohae Cho | Getty Images News | Getty Images Even Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang couldn’t save the tech and artificial intelligence trade this week. The chip giant’s talismanic […]
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Google must double AI compute every 6 months to meet demand, AI infrastructure boss tells employees
Amin Vahdat, VP of Machine Learning, Systems and Cloud AI at Google, holds up TPU Version 4 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, on July 23, 2024. Marc Ganley Google ‘s AI infrastructure boss told employees that the company has to double its compute capacity every six months in order to meet demand for […]
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Nvidia is king in AI chips, but Google and Amazon want to catch up by making their own
Nvidia outperformed all expectations, reporting soaring profits Wednesday thanks to its graphics processing units that excel at AI workloads. But more categories of AI chips are gaining ground. Custom ASICs, or application-specific integrated circuits, are now being designed by all the major hyperscalers, from Google‘s TPU to Amazon‘s Trainium and OpenAI’s plans with Broadcom. These […]
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Amazon cut thousands of engineers in its record layoffs, despite saying it needs to innovate faster
The Amazon Puget Sound Headquarters is pictured on Oct. 28, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. Stephen Brashear | Getty Images Amazon‘s 14,000-plus layoffs announced last month touched almost every piece of the company’s sprawling business, from cloud computing and devices to advertising, retail and grocery stores. But one job category bore the brunt of cuts more […]
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