Vice President Kamala Harris’ presumed ascension to the Democratic presidential nomination following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal scrambled this week certainly scrambled the race, but it also set everyone in tech wondering what a Harris administration might mean. Bottom line: Nobody knows — and of course there’s no guarantee she will win the election come November, ...

CrowdStrike Holdings ended the week with a bang, or more like a whimper from system administrators around the world, as it sort of broke the internet by issuing an update to its software with a defect that took down Windows computers everywhere. The cybersecurity company issued a workaround, but the incident, which affected banks, airlines and ...

Despite the seeming dominance of OpenAI and Microsoft in generative artificial intelligence, it’s becoming clear that the other cloud providers, not to mention AI startups, will make this anything but a winner-take-all business. Amazon Web Services made it latest bid to be a major player at its summit in New York this week, aiming to ...

Investors are still betting big on artificial intelligence, as this past week alone they put $450 million in Runway AI, $200 million into Magic AI and $100 million in Harvey, among others. AI also helped Samsung rock its preliminary earnings reported this week. Meantime, SK Hynix is investing a stunning $75B in its AI chipmaking business. But ...

It’s perhaps the biggest signal yet that generative artificial intelligence model providers aren’t going to get a free content ride: Record labels this week sued two AI music generators, and this one may prove to be the big battle over AI and copyright. Meantime, the European Union is putting more heat on Microsoft, and it’s clear those ...

As Nvidia became the world’s most valuable company this week, if only for a few days, it’s apparent that the race to develop even better generative artificial intelligence models isn’t slowing down. This week we saw Anthropic provide a leap in its Claude large language model, along with news that OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s new startup ...

It wasn’t exactly on the scale of the introduction of the iPhone or even the iPod, but Apple this week managed to make a credible splash in artificial intelligence. Much of Apple Intelligence is on the come, and you’ll need a newer iPhone to get the features, but as usual Apple managed to make an ...

Have we reached peak AI? This was a week in which CEO Jensen Huang’s Nvidia hit $3 trillion in market capitalization, only to fall back below that mark on reports of an antitrust probe by the Justice Department. Easy come, easy go. Meantime, some people are questioning if generative AI will catch on quickly enough to justify all ...

Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the artificial intelligence boom was never going to be unalloyed good for every enterprise technology provider looking to leverage AI. But this week, investors got a taste of the downside and they didn’t like it, sending stocks of Dell Technologies, MongoDB, Salesforce, UiPath Nutanix, Workday and more ...

Artificial intelligence bubble or boom, there’s no company riding it better than Nvidia, whose earnings report this week managed to outpace sky-high forecasts thanks to its providing the most popular chips in the known universe. AI also dominated the announcements and conversations at a raft of industry events this past week, from Dell Technologies World ...