Big tech articles

Another report shows most companies aren't making more money from AI

Facepalm: It's only been a few days since a survey showed more than half of CEOs admit to seeing no significant financial benefit from AI. Now, another report has come to the same conclusion, and, once again, it tries to put a positive spin on the results.

TSMC struggles to meet surging AI chip demand amid data center boom

Ripple effect: While critics and PC enthusiasts are cheering for the AI bubble to burst, Big Tech and enterprise ventures cannot buy AI accelerators fast enough. In fact, even one of the world's most important chip manufacturers is now facing significant issues with its ability to meet customer demand.

Elon Musk says OpenAI and Microsoft owe him $134 billion in "wrongful gains"

Apple couldn't build the best AI for Siri, so it's borrowing Google's

Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"

OpenAI's employee compensation dwarfs every major tech IPO of the past 25 years

Bottom line: OpenAI's financial model reflects the intense pressure to retain the people driving its breakthroughs. The company's willingness to spend aggressively on equity has redefined what competitive pay looks like in artificial intelligence – and raised the stakes for every firm vying to shape the field's future.

Intel and Nvidia's superchip plans blend CPUs, GPUs, and big money

Nvidia's $4 trillion rise raises questions about financing its own customers

Bottom line: Nvidia's explosive rise to become the world's most valuable company has come with an uneasy question from investors: how much of its record-breaking growth depends on financing its own customers? Now worth more than $4 trillion, Nvidia designs the specialized silicon and software that power AI systems, from data centers hosting ChatGPT to national AI computing hubs. But behind that scale lies a complicated web of investments that critics say resembles vendor financing – a practice in which a company lends money to customers who use those funds to buy its products.

AI created 50 new billionaires in 2025, startup investment pulled in more than $200 billion

Apple announces more senior execs are leaving, including its general counsel and DEI chief

President Macron accuses US of undermining EU investigations into Big Tech

Apple fast-tracks CEO succession plans as Tim Cook could step down next year

Nvidia becomes the first $5 trillion public company in history

Nvidia, one of the few companies profiting from AI, claims there is no AI bubble

Seduction is the new spyware: US tech startups are now the target of "sex warfare"

Mail-order spies: Tech companies employ some of the most robust network security to protect against IP theft. However, no amount of network security protects against theft from within. While corporate espionage is largely digital these days, good old-fashioned infiltration is still in use. China and Russia increasingly use sexual honeypots to compromise employees and gain access to sensitive technology.

Investors continue to sound the alarm on the inevitable burst of the AI bubble

Bottom line: Despite Big Tech pouring trillions into AI initiatives and building massive new data centers, the expected returns may never materialize. Analysts warn that the hype far outpaces reality, creating a precarious financial bubble that could have ripple effects across the broader economy.

Over 800 public figures, including "AI godfathers" and Steve Wozniak, sign open letter to ban superintelligent AI

A hot potato: Tech companies are in a race to create superintelligent AI, regardless of what the consequences of creating something much smarter than humans might be. It's led to hundreds of public figures from the world of tech, politics, media, education, religion, and even royalty signing an open letter calling for a ban on the development of superintelligence until certain conditions are met.

Samsung ties employee payouts to stock price in first company-wide incentive program

Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang, and Michael Dell all urged Trump to keep Intel's Lip-Bu Tan

Musk makes history as the first person to reach $500 billion net worth

Tim Berners-Lee urges decentralized web to counter AI exploitation and ad-driven abuse

Apple pushes back on EU's Digital Markets Act, aimed at curbing tech giants' power

The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns

Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison is building a media empire, with stakes in TikTok, CBS, CNN and more

Editor's take: Larry Ellison has spent decades shaping Silicon Valley through Oracle, the software company he co-founded in 1977. Now 81, and with a fortune that recently placed him among the richest people in the world, Ellison is moving in a new direction: media ownership. His investments, alongside those of his son, David, suggest ambitions that extend well beyond the corporate software world he helped define.

Preliminary Microsoft-OpenAI deal clears way for OpenAI's for-profit conversion

What just happened? Microsoft and OpenAI have reached an agreement to extend their high-profile partnership, resolving months of strained negotiations and clearing the way for the artificial intelligence startup to move forward with its plan to form a for-profit corporation. The non-binding deal represents a potential turning point in one of the most closely watched relationships in the AI sector, though many of the terms have yet to be finalized.