All eyes were on Nvidia’s earnings report this week as a proxy for the artificial intelligence economy, and even for the graphics chip giant, it was too much to live up to. Nvidia earnings disappointed, but really, how could they not? Most of the news was actually quite good, as growth looks to continue for ...

A flurry of new artificial intelligence models this week illustrated what’s coming next in AI: smaller language models targeted at vertical industries and functions. Both Nvidia and Microsoft debuted smaller large language models too. Also supporting the notion of more customized models — call them VLMs — OpenAI made its GPT-4o fine-tuning generally available. As ...

Regulators are circling ever closer to big tech companies — the latest being Google, which the Federal Trade Commission more than hinted this week should be broken up. It’s not at all certain that will happen, since it’s up to the judge in the Google v. Epic Games case, but it’s clear that Big Tech is headed for ...

Ahead of the annual Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, we warned that defensive tool sprawl is only likely to get worse. Onsite, the talk was about, of course, the impact of AI. So far, so good, but defenders are bracing for more sophisticated artificial intelligence-driven attacks. Meantime, lots of cybersecurity providers are doing well, if earnings and new fundings are ...

Updated: Dell Technologies Inc. is laying off an unspecified number of employees in a reorganization of sales and marketing teams, according to sources. According to Bloomberg today, the reorganization includes a new group focused on artificial intelligence services. Update: One source close to the matter had told SiliconANGLE that 12,500 layoffs, or about 10% of ...

Amid a glut of funding for artificial intelligence companies, there’s understandably increasing concern among investors this past week, apparent in disappointment in the earnings results of a number of technology companies, whether all this will pay off. We’re at the point in the investment cycle where it’s hard to tell, though to my eyes, it ...

Vice President Kamala Harris’ presumed ascension to the Democratic presidential nomination following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal scrambled this week certainly scrambled the race, but it also set everyone in tech wondering what a Harris administration might mean. Bottom line: Nobody knows — and of course there’s no guarantee she will win the election come November, ...

CrowdStrike Holdings ended the week with a bang, or more like a whimper from system administrators around the world, as it sort of broke the internet by issuing an update to its software with a defect that took down Windows computers everywhere. The cybersecurity company issued a workaround, but the incident, which affected banks, airlines and ...

Despite the seeming dominance of OpenAI and Microsoft in generative artificial intelligence, it’s becoming clear that the other cloud providers, not to mention AI startups, will make this anything but a winner-take-all business. Amazon Web Services made it latest bid to be a major player at its summit in New York this week, aiming to ...

Investors are still betting big on artificial intelligence, as this past week alone they put $450 million in Runway AI, $200 million into Magic AI and $100 million in Harvey, among others. AI also helped Samsung rock its preliminary earnings reported this week. Meantime, SK Hynix is investing a stunning $75B in its AI chipmaking business. But ...