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The fuel for the AI boom driving the markets is advertising. It is also an existential risk.
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025.Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWith OpenAI's recent release of its AI…
Google gets the US government’s green light to acquire Wiz for $32B
Google’s $32 billion acquisition of cloud security company Wiz took has taken step closer toward the finish line.
Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport said at a Wall Street Journal event on Tuesday, as reported by Reuters, that the acquisition had…
Toyota profits fall for a second consecutive quarter as U.S. tariffs hit exports
A sign with the Toyota logo in Surrey, England on August, 2023Peter Dazeley | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesToyota Motor on Wednesday raised the operating profit forecast for its financial year ending in March, while flagging a 1.45…
Trump flips and re-nominates Jared Isaacman to lead NASA
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced on his social media platform Truth Social that he is re-nominating Shift4 founder Jared Isaacman to lead the NASA, the nation’s space agency, months after withdrawing the nomination.
The…
Pinterest shares plummet 20% on earnings miss, weak forecast
Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesPinterest shares tanked nearly 20% on Tuesday after the company reported third-quarter financial results that missed on earnings per share and provided weak guidance.Here's how the company did,…
Amazon building Fastnet, its first solo subsea cable project
Amazon is building a subsea fiber-optic cable called Fastnet to connect Maryland's Eastern shore to County Cork, Ireland, in what will be the company's first wholly-owned subsea cable project.Subsea fiber-optic communication cables carry…
iOS 26.1 lets you turn down liquid glass’ transparency
Apple’s latest iOS update, available for eligible devices from Monday, doesn’t introduce any major features, but it does bring one highly-requested tweak: the ability to change the transparency of the translucent liquid glass design.…
Palantir CEO Karp’s Q3 earnings call comments
Alex Karp, Palantir CEO, joins CNBC's ‘Squawk on the Street’ on June 5, 2025. CNBCPalantir CEO Alex Karp took on a familiar target during the company's earnings call on Monday: His critics."Please turn on the conventional television and…
Elad Gil on which AI markets have winners — and which are still wide open
Solo VC investor extraordinaire Elad Gil said on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt that AI has been one of the least predictable tech booms he’s ever seen.
Gil is on the cap table of virtually every hit company of the past decade, including…
OpenAI signs $38 billion deal with Amazon, first partnership with AWS
OpenAI has signed a deal to buy $38 billion worth of capacity from Amazon Web Services, its first contract with the leader in cloud infrastructure and the latest sign that the $500 billion artificial intelligence startup is no longer…
Kevin Rose’s simple test for AI hardware — would you want to punch someone in the face…
Kevin Rose has a visceral rule for evaluating AI hardware investments: “If you feel like you should punch someone in the face for wearing it, you probably shouldn’t invest in it.”
It’s a typically candid assessment from the veteran…
Standard Chartered CEO expects nearly all transactions to move to blockchain
Bill Winters, chief executive officer of Standard Chartered, speaks at Hong Kong Fintech Week in Hong Kong on Nov. 3, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBill Winters, CEO of Standard Chartered, foresees a future in which nearly all…
AI trade frenzy seems driven by a ‘virtuous’ cycle
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, attends a press conference after the 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, October 31, 2025. Kim Soo-hyeon | Reuters
Traders who shorted the S&P 500 —…
Google pulls Gemma from AI Studio after Senator Blackburn accuses model of defamation
Google says it has removed Gemma from its AI Studio after a U.S. senator accused the AI model of fabricating accusations of sexual misconduct against her.
In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Senator Marsha Blackburn — a Republican…
Microsoft AI chief says only biological beings can be conscious
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, speaks at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on April 4, 2025.David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMicrosoft AI chief…
Elon Musk wants you to know that Sam Altman got a refund for his Tesla Roadster
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are still taking swipes at each other on Musk’s social media platform X.
While both men were founders at OpenAI, where Altman is CEO, they have subsequently sparred across social media, court filings, and…
Evolve Bank CEO fired propositioning FBI agent who posed as teen boy
Bob Hartheimer, CEO of Tennessee's Evolve Bank & Trust, was fired after U.S. law enforcement officials caught him propositioning a law enforcement officer posing as a 15-year-old boy on gay dating app Grindr.On Oct. 19, an employee…
Microsoft will grow headcount again but with ‘more leverage,’ CEO says
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on April 4, 2025. Microsoft Corp., determined to hold its ground in artificial…