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Microsoft Outlook hit with hours-long outage
Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Microsoft‘s Outlook email service malfunctioned for several hours Wednesday and Thursday, prompting some people to post on social media about the inability to reach their virtual mailboxes. The issue began at 6:20 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, according to a dashboard the software company maintains. It affected Outlook.com as well […]
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Amazon Web Services is building equipment to cool Nvidia GPUs as AI boom accelerates
The letters AI, which stands for “artificial intelligence,” stand at the Amazon Web Services booth at the Hannover Messe industrial trade fair in Hannover, Germany, on March 31, 2025. Julian Stratenschulte | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Amazon said Wednesday that its cloud division has developed hardware to cool down next-generation Nvidia graphics processing units […]
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OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta on Dec. 11, 2023. Dustin Chambers | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet’s market-dominating Google Chrome, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The browser is slated to launch […]
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Nvidia’s latest milestone shows this is still the AI bull market
Nvidia has shaken off concerns about tariffs and competition to hit a new Wall Street milestone, reinforcing that the artificial intelligence boom is still at the heart of this stock market rally. The chip giant briefly passed $4 trillion in market value on Wednesday, the first company ever to do so, and its shares are […]
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Perplexity launches AI-powered web browser for select group of subscribers
Perplexity AI on Wednesday launched a new artificial intelligence-powered web browser called Comet in the startup’s latest effort to compete in the consumer internet market against companies like Google and Microsoft. Comet will allow users to connect with enterprise applications like Slack and ask complex questions via voice and text, according to a brief demo […]
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Photos show Altman, Iger and Cook arrive at ‘summer camp for billionaires’ in Sun Valley
Key Points Top executives from tech, media and finance gathered in Sun Valley, Idaho, for Allen & Co.’s annual conference this week. The gathering is often referred to as “summer camp for billionaires.” Apple CEO Tim Cook, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, Disney CEO Bob Iger and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were pictured entering the lodge. […]
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Nvidia hits $4 trillion market cap, first company to do so
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends a roundtable discussion at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 11, 2025. Sarah Meyssonnier | Reuters Nvidia stock jumped more than 2% on Wednesday, topping a $4 trillion market cap for the first time as investors scooped […]
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Microsoft layoffs hit 830 workers in home state of Washington
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Axel Springer building in Berlin on Oct. 17, 2023. He received the annual Axel Springer Award. Ben Kriemann | Getty Images Among the thousands of Microsoft employees who lost their jobs in the cutbacks announced this week were 830 staffers in the company’s home state of Washington. Nearly […]
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CoreWeave is the first cloud provider to deploy Nvidia’s latest AI chips
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 2, 2024. Ann Wang | Reuters Nvidia’s Blackwell Ultra chips, the company’s next-generation graphics processor for artificial intelligence, have been commercially deployed at CoreWeave, the companies announced on Thursday. CoreWeave has received shipments of Dell-built shipments based around Nvidia’s GB300 NVL72 AI systems, Dell said on […]
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