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Wayve raises $60 million from AMD, Qualcomm, Arm
A prototype of the Nissan Motor Co. Leaf-based autonomous vehicle equipped with Wayve Technologies Ltd.'s AI Driver software and connected to Uber Technologies Inc.'s ride-hailing platform on display during a news conference in Tokyo,…
Anthropic’s rise is giving some OpenAI investors second thoughts
OpenAI’s $852 billion valuation is facing skepticism from some of its own investors as the company scrambles to reorient itself around enterprise customers and fend off Anthropic, according to the Financial Times.
Anthropic’s…
Meta commits to 1 GW with Broadcom, Hock Tan to leave board
Meta and Broadcom on Tuesday announced a sweeping deal that extends an existing partnership between the two companies for the design of Meta's custom in-house AI accelerators through 2029. At the same time, Meta said Broadcom's CEO, Hock…
Oracle jumps, Bloom Energy soars 20% on AI datacenter power deal
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after the opening bell in New York on January 7, 2026. Timothy A. Clary | Afp | Getty ImagesOracle's stock jumped 4% on Tuesday as software shares rebounded for a second…
Financial risk management platform Pillar raises $20M seed in round led by a16z
Pillar, a platform that helps commodity-driven businesses (like those in metals, food, and airline companies) manage financial risk, announced Tuesday a $20 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Others in the seed round…
Jim Cramer: The real reason stocks are rallying despite Iran war fears
CNBC's Jim Cramer said Monday that Wall Street's resilience in the face of escalating geopolitical tensions shows investors are focusing less on the Iran war itself and more on a key driver of stock valuations: interest rates."I think…
An Amazon warehouse worker died on the job at Oregon facility
An Amazon employee at the Troutdale, Oregon warehouse passed away at work last week, a company spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch.
According to a report from the Western Edge, an independent investigative outlet covering the Pacific…
Suspect in arson Sam Altman home aimed to kill, warned extinction AI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends an event to pitch AI for businesses in Tokyo, Feb. 3, 2025.Kim Kyung-hoon | ReutersA man accused of throwing a lit Molotov cocktail at the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home last week was trying to kill…
OpenAI touts Amazon alliance in memo, Microsoft ‘limited our ability’
OpenAI's newly appointed revenue chief, Denise Dresser, sent a memo to staffers on Sunday, touting the company's alliance with Amazon as a key growth driver for its enterprise business, while noting the constraints of its long-standing…
Slate Auto raises $650M to fund its affordable EV truck plans
Jeff Bezos-backed electric vehicle startup Slate Auto has raised another $650 million as the company prepares to put its first affordable pickup trucks into production by the end of 2026.
The carmaker said Monday that the Series C…
Apple unveils its most affordable laptop ever. What the MacBook Neo means for investors
Apple is casting a new line to reel more users into its prized ecosystem, a money-printing machine with fresh hardware as the lure and services as the hook. The tech giant announced its most affordable laptop in history last month with…
Trump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned bank executives for a meeting this week where they encouraged the executives to use Anthropic’s new Mythos model to detect vulnerabilities, according to…
Powell, Bessent met with U.S. Bank CEOs over Anthropic’s Mythos threat
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with major U.S. bank CEOs this week to discuss the possible cyber risks raised by Anthropic's Mythos model, CNBC confirmed Friday.The bank heads were already…
CoreWeave stock pops 11% on deal to power Anthropic’s Claude
CoreWeave announced Friday that it has entered a multi-year agreement with Anthropic to power its Claude artificial intelligence models as demand for infrastructure continues to climb. Shares of the neocloud climbed 11% following the…
Walmart-owned Flipkart, Amazon are squeezing India’s quick commerce startups
India’s quick commerce market is booming, with demand more than doubling for some players. But the fast-delivery push by Flipkart and Amazon is raising the stakes in an already crowded space where profitability remains under pressure.…
Trump administration met with tech giants before Mythos release
Vice President JD Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent last week questioned leading tech CEOs about the security of artificial intelligence models and how to respond to cyber attacks before Anthropic released its new Mythos model,…
Kalshi wins temporary pause in Arizona criminal case
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes’ case against prediction market Kalshi appears to have hit a snag.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Friday that it has won a temporary restraining order preventing the state from…
Vibe check from AI industry HumanX: Anthropic is talk of the town
Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesIf one thing became clear at the HumanX conference in San Francisco this week, where 6,500 executives, founders and investors gathered to talk about artificial intelligence, it's that OpenAI no…