TikTok returned early this week after a short pause thanks to newly minted President Trump, but it was his other executive orders on AI and crypto that are likely to roil the business world. Meanwhile, Trump’s memecoins and loosening of crypto rules provide a way to funnel money to him while he’s president: corruption in broad daylight. ...

TikTok is about as far from enterprise computing as it gets, but who isn’t watching what its fate will be in coming days? The Chinese-owned social app’s future in the U.S. still hangs in the balance. It appears neither Biden nor especially Trump wants it to shut down abruptly, but the Supreme Court today upheld ...

Leave it to the CES consumer electronics show to wrest Silicon Valley from its holiday slumber, and chipmakers from Nvidia to Advanced Micro Devices to Qualcomm obliged. It was all about enabling artificial intelligence at the desktop and that’s going to require serious hardware horsepower. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang even upgraded his usual leather jacket for ...

Enterprise tech folks seemed to take a break this week, with relatively light news, even though 2025 at large unfortunately started with literal bangs. You can get the main news this week with the headlines below, so I won’t go into detail this time. Besides, what happened this week will pale in comparison to what ...

This was a blessedly slow week — though less so than I thought it would be — so there were just a few highlights I’ll note in quick bullet points so you can get back to the fam too: * Agentic AI is coming — but not for awhile, says theCUBE Research’s Dave Vellante. * OpenAI ...

The bottomless pit of funding for all things artificial intelligence remains… bottomless. Case in point: This week Databricks raised more money than God. That’s going to be one monster IPO next year (maybe) if the economy holds up. Meanwhile, Perplexity raised $500 million for its AI search and immediately bought AI startup Carbon. And continuing ...

Google has been very busy, making a flurry of announcements this week that placed it credibly near the top in the artificial intelligence race. It made a good one-two-three AI punch with new Gemini models, a new AI agent platform and the general availability of its Trillium chips and cloud instances. That’s after announcing a quantum ...

Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference in Las Vegas dominated the news this week, as the cloud giant debuted credible new artificial intelligence models dubbed Nova, new Trainium AI chips and cloud instances, and numerous new additions to its Bedrock and Sagemaker AI application platforms. Although a lot of new services are still in preview, all in ...

It’s time to get ready for Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference, starting Monday in Las Vegas — the biggest cloud computing conference of the year. To prepare, check out our new Special Report: AI and the Cloud, with exclusive features, interviews and analysis, and all the important news starting next week. We take a deep ...

The king of artificial intelligence came through. Despite sky-high expectations, Nvidia Wednesday managed to outdo earnings expectations as it nearly doubled revenue from a year ago and more than doubled its profit. Investors more or less liked what CEO Jensen Huang (pictured) told them about the future too, as they bid up the stock almost ...