Samsung ties employee payouts to stock price in first company-wide incentive program
The three-year plan lets staff choose cash or shares for bonuses
Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang, and Michael Dell all urged Trump to keep Intel's Lip-Bu Tan
Tech leaders rallied to defend Intel CEO resulting in surprise White House turnaround
Musk makes history as the first person to reach $500 billion net worth
An unimaginable amount of wealth
Tim Berners-Lee urges decentralized web to counter AI exploitation and ad-driven abuse
"We took the wrong path"
Apple pushes back on EU's Digital Markets Act, aimed at curbing tech giants' power
Apple claims the regulations are harming consumers and innovation
The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns
When the bubble bursts, reality will hit far harder than anyone expects
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
The nonprofit could hold a stake worth over $100 billion if OpenAI reaches a $500 billion valuation in private markets
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.
OpenAI turns to Oracle in historic $300 billion cloud partnership
Massive AI deal will need power equal to two Hoover Dams
Larry Ellison leapfrogs Elon Musk to become world's richest person
Oracle's blowout earnings report led to massive personal gain
Nearly 40% of Nvidia's revenue tied to two mystery customers, filing shows
Speculation suggests these big customers could be Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Google, or Oracle
Musk makes good on his threat to sue Apple and OpenAI over antitrust collusion
The X boss sees an Apple OpenAI alliance as a threat to his plans for an X "super app"
Elon Musk wanted Zuckerberg's help to take over OpenAI, court filings reveal
Maybe Musk shouldn't have challenged Zuckerberg to a cage match
Cisco lays off 221 people despite revenue surge and CEO's claim AI wouldn't cost jobs
A hot potato: Cisco has announced that it will become the latest tech giant to lay off workers just as its revenue is soaring and AI becomes the most important focus. The move comes a week after CEO Chuck Robbins told an interviewer, "I don't want to get rid of a bunch of people right now."
Elon Musk says he will sue Apple over anticompetitive ChatGPT favoritism in App Store
"Apple behaves like it's owned by OpenAI - why?"
Microsoft, Meta, and startups are battling for AI talent with more than just money
Startups like Anthropic are outpacing Big Tech in keeping AI talent with promises of agility and autonomy
Apple unveils new $100 billion US investment plan amid tariff pressure
Investments include a cover glass factory in Kentucky and a 250,000-square-foot server facility in Houston
Tim Cook says AI is now Apple's top priority, "bigger than the internet"
Cook compares AI to the launch of the Mac, iPhone, and iPad - calls it a make-or-break moment
Big quote: In a rare all-hands meeting at Apple's Cupertino headquarters, CEO Tim Cook made it clear to thousands of employees that AI now stands at the forefront of the company's ambitions. Addressing a packed auditorium following a stronger-than-expected earnings report, Cook called the AI transformation "as big or bigger" than the internet, the smartphone, cloud computing, and apps. "Apple must do this. Apple will do this. This is sort of ours to grab," Cook told staff, vowing, "We will make the investment to do it."
AI engineers reject Meta's $1.5 billion offers to build on their own terms
Compensation doesn't always win the war for top AI talent
Trump administration's digital health tracking system gives tech giants access to medical records
The plan has raised plenty of privacy concerns
Forward-looking: The Trump administration wants the US public to upload personal health data and medical records to a series of apps and systems managed by private health companies and tech giants. The move is supposed to allow easier access to health records across the nation, bringing personal healthcare into the digital age, but there are plenty of concerns about the security of the data and the possibility that it could be exploited.
Layoffs surge in tech: More than 100,000 jobs cut in 2025 so far
From over-hiring to AI obsessions: Intel, Microsoft, Meta lead the cuts
Big quote: As Frank Herbert writes in Dune, "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Silicon Valley's AI boom turns into a battle for brains – and billions
Nine-figure offers become routine as Big Tech bids for AI brains
Perplexity CEO's warning to startups: big tech will "copy anything that's good"
Perplexity CEO points to industry imitation amid growing AI browser rivalry
Google hires Windsurf founders, derailing OpenAI's $3 billion acquisition
Google pays $2.4 billion to hire Windsurf's founders and researchers for DeepMind and Gemini
US Senators introduce bipartisan bill to enable third-party app stores on iPhones
A similar bill was killed in 2021 by Apple, Google, Amazon, and Meta lobbyists