OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took subtle swipes at rival Anthropic on Thursday and said he thinks it’s “bad for society” if companies start abandoning their commitment to the democratic process because “some people don’t like the person or people currently in charge.” “The government is supposed to be more powerful than private companies,” Altman said…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 20, 2026. Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Salesforce shares were down close to 4% in pre-market trading on Thursday, after the customer service software maker reported healthy results, although its fiscal 2027 revenue view trailed Wall Street projections. The downward…
US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on Air Force One before taking off from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland on Feb. 19, 2026. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Oil prices hovered near six-month highs on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump warned Iran that “really bad things” will happen if there was no…
The replica of the ARM is an electronic chip board during a collaborative ceremony launching a partnership between Malaysia and ARM Holdings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 5, 2025. Hari Anggara | Nurphoto | Getty Images New York-listed shares of British semiconductor firm Arm ticked more than 1% higher on Wednesday, after documents showed…
On August 20, 2011, legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published a blog post—and an accompanying essay in The Wall Street Journal—that would become the sacred texts of the Silicon Valley bull run. Titled “Why Software Is Eating The World,” he argued that the global economy was undergoing a “dramatic and broad technological and economic shift”…
Traders work on the floor of the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. markets closed higher overnight. Big Tech stocks mostly rebounded, with Oracle jumping 9.6% and Microsoft advancing 3.1%. That helped the…