Enterprise
Oracle’s lease commitments jump by almost 150% as company builds out to meet AI demand
Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, center, speaks on a media tour of the Stargate data center in Abilene, Texas, on Sept. 23, 2025. Stargate is a collaboration of OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank, with promotional support from President Donald Trump, to build data centers and other infrastructure for artificial intelligence throughout the US. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg […]
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Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation
Jyoti Bansal, co-founder and CEO of Harness, speaks at the company’s Unscripted conference in London on Sept. 25, 2025. Harness Almost nine years ago, Jyoti Bansal sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion just as the software startup was set to go public. Bansal’s latest venture, Harness, is now worth substantially more than that, after […]
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Cisco’s stock closes at record for first time since dot-com peak in 2000
Chuck Robbins, chief executive officer of Cisco, participates in a Bloomberg interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 17, 2024. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images Few companies were as hot in early 2000 as Cisco, whose networking equipment served as the backbone of the internet boom. On Wednesday, Cisco’s […]
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Oracle set to report quarterly results after the bell
Larry Ellison, Oracle’s co-founder and chief technology officer, appears at the Formula One British Grand Prix in Towcester, U.K., on July 6, 2025. Jay Hirano | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Oracle is scheduled to report fiscal second-quarter results after market close on Wednesday. Here’s what analysts are expecting, according to LSEG: Earnings […]
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Nvidia refutes report that China’s DeepSeek is using its banned Blackwell AI chips
Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia on Wednesday refuted a report that the Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has been using smuggled Blackwell chips to develop its upcoming model. The U.S. has banned […]
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Former GitLab CEO raises money for Kilo to compete in crowded AI coding market
Investors are betting there’s room for another startup using artificial intelligence to help software engineers write code faster. The difference with Kilo Code is it counts former GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij among its founders. On Wednesday, Kilo Code announced $8 million in seed funding, with backing from Breakers, Cota Capital, General Catalyst, Quiet Capital and […]
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OpenAI hires Slack CEO Denise Dresser to lead global revenue strategy
Slack CEO Denise Dresser during TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Oct. 29, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI on Tuesday announced that it’s tapped Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its chief revenue officer. Dresser will oversee the artificial intelligence startup’s global revenue strategy across both customer success and enterprise, OpenAI said in […]
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AI’s potential excites executives and investors, but general public remains skeptical, survey says
Several AI applications can be seen on a smartphone screen, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, Grok and DeepSeek. Philip Dulian | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Corporate leaders and investors are brimming with optimism about the potential of artificial intelligence to boost worker productivity, profitability and shareholder returns. The general public […]
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Confluent stock soars 29% as IBM announces $11 billion acquisition deal
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna speaks at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, on March 11, 2025. Andy Wenstrand | Sxsw Conference & Festivals | Getty Images IBM announced Monday that it is acquiring data streaming platform Confluent in a deal worth $11 billion. Shares of Confluent soared 29% premarket. IBM stock sank about 1%. IBM […]
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Rubrik stock rips 22% higher after blowing out earnings and boosting guidance
Rubrik shares soared 22% on Friday after the data management company posted blowout fiscal third-quarter numbers and boosted guidance. The stock, which debuted on the market in April 2024, had its second-best day on record. Revenue jumped 48% from a year earlier to $350 million, topping the $320 million average analyst estimate, according to LSEG. […]
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