Enterprise
Huawei’s new AI chip finds favor with ByteDance, Alibaba which plan to place orders, Reuters reports
SHENZHEN, CHINA – MARCH 24: Pedestrians walk past a Huawei retail store inside a shopping mall on March 24, 2026 in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China. Huawei continues to expand its offline retail presence as competition in China’s consumer electronics and smart device market remains intense. (Photo by Cheng Xin/Getty Images) Cheng Xin | Getty Images […]
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Meta boosts investment in West Texas AI data center by over sixfold to $10 billion
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta is boosting its spending commitment on a forthcoming AI data center in West Texas by more than sixfold to $10 billion, with an aim […]
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Microsoft’s diversity chief is leaving as company continues ‘AI-powered transformation’
The Microsoft corporate logo is illuminated at the Fira Gran Via booth during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on March 5, 2026. Joan Cros | Nurphoto | Getty Images Microsoft chief diversity officer Lindsay-Rae McIntyre is the latest executive to leave the software company as it enacts human resources changes to capitalize on […]
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Legal AI startup Harvey valued at $11 billion in funding round, as VCs spread bets beyond model companies
Harvey co-founders Winston Weinberg and Gabe Pereyra. Courtesy of Harvey With OpenAI and Anthropic soaring to a combined valuation of more than $1 trillion, some in the artificial intelligence industry fear that the two big model companies are sucking up so much of the value that there won’t be much left for other startups. Harvey […]
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Pentagon ban of Anthropic faces judge; Claude AI maker seeks injunction
Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Prakash Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. District Judge Rita Lin said Tuesday that the decision by the Pentagon to blacklist Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models “looks like an attempt to […]
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Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer
For more than 35 years, Arm Holdings has licensed its instruction sets to the world’s biggest chipmakers and collected royalties on every processor made with its designs. Now the U.K.-based company is making physical silicon of its own for the first time. Arm CEO Rene Haas unveiled his company’s first in-house chip on Tuesday at […]
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Databricks enters cybersecurity market with Lakewatch launch, bulking up ahead of IPO
Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks speaks on CNBC. CNBC Databricks has grown from startup into major software company, generating billions by processing data and running generative artificial intelligence models for clients. For its next leg of growth, it’s turning to cybersecurity with a new offering called Lakewatch. Adobe and National Australia Bank are currently using […]
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Anthropic says Claude can now use your computer to finish tasks for you in AI agent push
This photograph shows a figurine in front of the logo of the AI assistant “Claude” built by the US artificial intelligence safety and research company Anthropic during a photo session in Paris on February 13, 2026. (Photo by Joel Saget / AFP via Getty Images) Joel Saget | Afp | Getty Images Anthropic’s Claude can […]
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OpenAI calls out Microsoft reliance as risk in investor document ahead of expected IPO
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit on March 11, 2026, in Washington. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images In a document that resembles an IPO prospectus, OpenAI said its close ties with Microsoft could be a potential risk to its business, telling investors that the software company is responsible for “a substantial […]
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Synopsys shares rally as activist Elliott builds multibillion-dollar stake in chip design firm
Shares of Synopsys climbed about 4% Monday as activist investor Elliott Investment Management built a multibillion-dollar stake in the company, CNBC’s David Faber confirmed. “As AI drives a step change in chip complexity and capital investment, Synopsys is uniquely positioned to benefit from this growth,” Jesse Cohn, Managing Partner at Elliott, told CNBC. “We believe […]
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