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Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, others in latest AI talent deal
Chief executive officer of Google Sundar Pichai. Marek Antoni Iwanczuk | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Google on Friday made the latest a splash in the AI talent wars, announcing an agreement to bring in Varun Mohan, co-founder and CEO of artificial intelligence coding startup Windsurf. As part of the deal, Google will […]
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Bill Gates says Trump’s cuts to USAID are devastating: ‘It’s not too late to reverse them’
Bill Gates speaks with Reuters during an interview in New York City, U.S., May 8, 2025. Mike Segar | Reuters Bill Gates, the philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder, on Friday said it’s not too late to reinstate international aid funding that President Donald Trump cut off. The Trump administration placed staff members at the U.S. Agency […]
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang sells more than $36 million in stock, catches Warren Buffett in net worth
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, holds a motherboard as he speaks during the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, on June 11, 2025. Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unloaded roughly $36.4 million worth of stock in the leading artificial intelligence chipmaker, […]
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Goldman Sachs is piloting its first autonomous coder in major AI milestone for Wall Street
Key Points Goldman is testing an autonomous software engineer from artificial intelligence startup Cognition that is expected to soon join the ranks of the firm’s 12,000 human developers, Goldman tech chief Marco Argenti told CNBC. The program, named Devin, became known in technology circles last year with Cognition’s claim that it had created the world’s […]
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Trump to host Jensen Huang at White House as Nvidia tops $4 trillion market cap
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers remarks next to U.S. President Donald Trump at an ‘Investing in America’ event in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2025. Leah Millis | Reuters Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, CNBC’s Megan Cassella reported. The meeting comes as Nvidia rose […]
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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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