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Tech megacaps plan to spend more than $300 billion in 2025 as AI race intensifies
Megacap technology companies funneled billions of dollars into artificial intelligence last year to try and keep up with unfettered demand. The hype isn’t dying down in 2025. Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft intend to spend as much as $320 billion combined on AI technologies and datacenter buildouts in 2025, based on comments from their CEOs […]
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DeepSeek shocked the AI world this week. Here’s how tech CEOs responded
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella commented on its “real innovations.” OpenAI’s Sam Altman described it as “clearly a great model.” Apple CEO Tim Cook said “innovation that drives efficiency is a good thing.” And Palantir’s Alex Karp said it shows the importance of “an all-country effort.” The tech CEOs were all talking about China’s DeepSeek, which […]
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to meet with Trump at White House
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is in Washington, D.C., and will be meeting with President Donald Trump on Friday afternoon, CNBC has confirmed. The main topic Huang and Trump are expected to discuss is U.S. artificial intelligence policy, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because they weren’t authorized to […]
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Mark Zuckerberg starts Meta earnings call by praising Trump administration
(L-R) Priscilla Chan, CEO of Meta and Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, and Lauren Sanchez attend the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg praised the Trump administration […]
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Zuckerberg sets Meta’s AI targets for the year, expects to spend $60 billion on growth
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks on before the luncheon on the inauguration day of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second Presidential term in Washington, U.S., Jan. 20, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday announced the company plans to invest around $60 to $65 billion in capital expenditure in 2025 as it continues […]
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Here’s why you’re suddenly following President Trump on Instagram
(L-R) Priscilla Chan, CEO of Meta and Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, and Lauren Sanchez attend the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images Instagram users are complaining this week that they’re […]
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Meta backs Databricks as the data analytics startup inches toward IPO
Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi. Databricks Data analytics software startup Databricks said Wednesday that Meta has signed on as an investor. As the company that trains the popular Llama open-source large language models, or LLMs, that Databricks builds on, Meta plays an important role in the artificial intelligence. Databricks works closely with Meta’s Llama […]
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Goldman Sachs rolls out an AI assistant for its employees as artificial intelligence sweeps Wall Street
Key Points Goldman Sachs is rolling out a generative AI assistant to its bankers, traders and asset managers, the first stage in the evolution of a program that will eventually take on the traits of a seasoned Goldman employee, according to Chief Information Officer Marco Argenti. The bank has released a program called GS AI […]
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Sam Altman posts letter from senators concerned about OpenAI efforts to ‘cozy up’ to Trump
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a fireside chat organized by Softbank Ventures Asia in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. Senators on Friday expressed concern to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that he’s attempting to “cozy up to the incoming Trump administration” with […]
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TikTok CEO expected to attend Trump’s inauguration, NBC reports
TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing entitled “TikTok: How Congress can Safeguard American Data Privacy and Protect Children from Online Harms,” as lawmakers scrutinize the Chinese-owned video-sharing app, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 23, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters TikTok CEO Shou Chew is expected […]
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