With Mark Zuckerberg counting on Meta’s new artificial intelligence model, Muse Spark, to revive his company’s standing in the booming AI market, guidance and commentary are going to be of heightened importance following first-quarter earnings on Wednesday. That’s because the new model, formerly codenamed Avocado, was unveiled in early April, just as the second quarter…
OpenAI and Microsoft on Monday announced a revamped partnership agreement that will allow the artificial intelligence company to cap revenue share payments and serve customers across any cloud provider. As part of the new agreement, the companies said revenue share payments from OpenAI to Microsoft will be “subject to a total cap,” but they will…
Apple CEO Tim Cook laughs with President Donald Trump during a meeting in the White House, Washington, March 6, 2019. Leah Millis | Reuters President Donald Trump praised Tim Cook in a lengthy Truth Social post on Tuesday, calling the outgoing Apple CEO an “incredible guy” and boasting about how Cook appealed to him when…
John Ternus, senior vice president of hardware engineering at Apple Inc., speaks about iMac computers during the Peek Performance virtual event in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple has maintained its dominance in consumer devices and built up a $4…
Packages with the logo of Amazon are transported at a packing station of a redistribution center of Amazon in Horn-Bad Meinberg, western Germany, on Dec. 9, 2024. Ina Fassbender | Afp | Getty Images Amazon pressured major brands like Levi Strauss & Co and Hanes to inflate prices of listings on rival online marketplaces as…
The Cursor logo arranged on a smartphone in New Hyde Park, New York, Nov. 20, 2025. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial intelligence startup Cursor is in talks to raise a $2 billion fundraising round at an over $50 billion valuation, which does not include the investment, a source familiar with the matter…
San Jose CA, commercial hub of silicon valley and its network of freeways. Steve Proehl | The Image Bank | Getty Images Despite the C-suite’s enthusiasm over artificial intelligence agents that can plow through office tasks like never-sleeping interns, the underlying technology is still rickety and a potential cost-sucker. That much was clear this week…
Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Ruhani Kaur | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic on Thursday announced a new artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 4.7, which the company said is an improvement over past models but is “less broadly capable”…
An automated barcode reader scans packages prepared for shipping at an Amazon fulfillment center on Cyber Monday in Robbinsville, New Jersey, Dec. 1, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images For Amazon sellers, who account for over 60% of goods sold on the e-retailer’s sprawling marketplace, times would be tough no matter what right…
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., speaks during BlackRock’s 2026 Infrastructure Summit in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, March 11, 2026. Daniel Heuer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Prosecutors plan to ask a judge Tuesday to ask a San Francisco judge to hold the man accused of trying to murder OpenAI CEO Sam…