Nvidia power players: Meet the 13 leaders driving the AI chip giant's massive success
Here are the key leaders driving the AI and chip company's success
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Amazon's work email went down and warehouses experienced brief disruptions due to the CrowdStrike outage
Amazon services and employees were impacted by a global IT outage tied to CrowdStrike, affecting emails and operations.
AMD's AI head explains how it's tackling Nvidia's 'lock-in' and the AI chip shortage
Amid a shortage of GPUs, AMD is promoting its open source programming model to help customers rely less on Nvidia.
Amazon cracks down on 'coffee badging' employees by tracking individual hours spent in the office
Amazon cracks down on 'coffee badging' by tracking office hours, intensifying its return-to-office enforcement.
A Wall Street analyst who wrote a blistering open letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy last year now sees big improvements
Bernstein analyst praises Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's turnaround effort, a year after writing a brutal open letter..
The life and career of Larry Ellison, Oracle's CTO and cofounder, who went from college dropout to the world's 7th richest person
Meet Larry Ellison, Oracle's CTO and cofounder who's amassed a multibillion-dollar fortune and whose son will be the new chief at Paramount.
Amazon's amazing turnaround: How Andy Jassy secretly wooed Wall Street and overhauled a bloated tech giant
After a challenging start as CEO, Jassy has led a massive turnaround effort, earning Wall Street's confidence and generating record profit.
We were child-free and lonely, so we started a walking group for other women — and 80 people showed up
Lisa Collins and Sophie Curthoys wanted to build a community of women who lacked female friendships, so they started Women Who Walk.
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The rise of Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce and owner of Time Magazine
Salesforce's Marc Benioff, who was inspired to create the firm by swimming with dolphins in Hawaii, is still at the helm after 25 years.
Microsoft's new AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman works closely with these execs, internal tracking tool reveals
An internal Microsoft tool tracks interactions between employees. It reveals who new AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has been working with most.
Fewer Microsoft employees think they're getting a 'good deal,' internal survey shows
The "Employee Signals" survey showed a drop in positive responses. Microsoft uses this annual poll to help decide pay and other workplace issues.
Amazon's secret GitHub data grab
There's a rush to amass as much data as possible to train AI models. Amazon is trying to scrape Microsoft's Github for some of the data it needs.
Adobe employees slam the company over AI controversy: 'Let's avoid becoming like IBM'
Adobe faces internal and external criticism over a Terms of Use update that suggested customer content might be used to train AI models.
Microsoft is considering an AI revamp of its 365 software bundles, sources say
Microsoft's senior leadership team is planning executive reviews this summer and a decision by September.
Norway's trillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund to vote against Musk's $56 billion Tesla pay package
Norway's sovereign wealth fund will vote against Elon Musk's $56 billion paycheck at Tesla's annual meeting, citing concerns over award size, performance triggers, and key person risk.
Amazon pulled out of Figure's huge AI-robotics funding round at the last minute
Amazon made a last-minute decision to back out of Figure's $675 million investment round earlier this year.
Microsoft hired Mustafa Suleyman's ghostwriter for its new AI org, internal chart shows
This isn't the first time author Michael Bhaskar has landed a role at a leading AI company.
Leaked Microsoft org chart reveals the top people running Mustafa Suleyman's new AI organization
The chart shows the key executives leading Microsoft's new AI organization under CEO Mustafa Suleyman.
Apple alerted Amazon about a potential cloud security risk, prompting a change in AWS's data-deletion process
Amazon Web Services enhanced its data-deletion process after Apple highlighted the potential security risk in 2023.
Microsoft exec blames Azure layoffs on the 'AI wave' in leaked memo
An Microsoft executive explained in an email to employees that the company is making changes to support investment in artificial intelligence.
Microsoft is laying off hundreds in its Azure cloud business, sources say
Microsoft is laying off hundreds of employees from its Azure cloud-computing business, sources have told Business Insider.
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Google conducts sweeping layoffs in its Cloud unit
Google's Cloud unit conducted more job cuts this week, affecting employees in consulting, partner engineering, and sustainability.
Inside Amazon's struggle to crack Nvidia's AI-chip dominance
Internal Amazon documents reveal slow adoption of its in-house AI chips and show why AWS customers still want Nvidia GPUs.
Telecom firms say 5G is transforming industries from farming to manufacturing as they build in security from the start
5G technology drives business efficiency with faster speeds, more security, and new connectivity options, experts at the RSA conference say.
Microsoft is planning AI computing resources for a LinkedIn 'Copilot,' internal document shows
Microsoft has rolled out AI Copilot tools for GitHub, Office 365, and Security. It's assembling compute for what could be a similar LinkedIn offering.
Wall Street worries about revenue 'round-tripping,' after big AI deals by cloud giants including Amazon and Google
Big tech has invested heavily in AI startups. Some of those startups are spending that money on Big Tech cloud services. Is that real growth?
Cybersecurity professionals share best practices for securing 5G networks
Explore how businesses are evolving their cybersecurity strategies with 5G and IoT, based on insights from professionals at the RSA Conference.
An Ohio power company wants data center firms to pay their fair share of soaring electricity use amid the AI boom
AEP Ohio proposes new tariffs for data centers amid a historic spike in electricity consumption in central Ohio's fast-growing cluster.
Big Tech's AI spending on assets like data centers and real estate could surpass $1 trillion in the next five years
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Apple are sharply increasing spending on fixed assets as the AI arms race heats up.
How Google CEO Sundar Pichai shook up his leadership team for the AI era
Google's chief has looked inside the company and moved up several veterans in an effort to fend off OpenAI and other AI rivals.
Amazon's cloud business needs a 'bulldozer.' New AWS CEO Matt Garman fits the bill.
The new AWS CEO is known for being direct. He will have to navigate rising AI competition in the cloud-computing market.
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Amazon's cloud CEO departs with dour views on his tenure, amid growing competition and AI woes
Under Selipsky, AWS saw slow growth rates, job cuts, and increasing competition in generative AI.
5G and 6G are among 'the most strategic sectors' in the AI age, a national security advisor says
Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging tech, says US telecom infrastructure needs competitive technology.
Amazon cloud CEO Adam Selipsky is out
Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down, and Matt Garman is set to take over as of June.
Microsoft plans to end its salary freeze for some employees
Microsoft plans to restart performance-based raises for some employees after freezing salaries.
Cybersecurity professionals say generative AI can be exploited in cyberattacks — but it can also be a powerful defense
Explore how generative AI is reshaping cybersecurity in 5G networks, aiding in faster threat detection and network management.
RSA CEO Rohit Ghai says emergent 5G technology increases the need to protect critical networks
Explore the intersection of 5G technology and cybersecurity with insights from RSA CEO Rohit Ghai.
New FTC transcript reveals juicy details on how Jeff Bezos and other top Amazon execs used disappearing messages
A recently released FTC transcript offers an unusually detailed look at a tense meeting between Bezos and the agency over how he used the Signal app.
Leaked memo: Amazon requires cloud events to spend up to 80% of their time talking about generative AI
Generative AI-related content is supposed to make up 80% of AWS Global Summit agendas, in response to increased interest in AI.
Musk makes his second trip to China in less than a year to hurry along self-driving tech rollout, reports say
Musk plans to fast-track Tesla's autonomous driving technology in China amid declining shares and rising competition, reports say.
Amazon has suspended new US green-card applications for foreign workers, leaked memo shows
The tech giant has put the green-card process on hold until the end of 2024, when it may reactivate the program depending on labor-market conditions.
Microsoft is blocking employee access to Perplexity AI, one of its largest Azure OpenAI customers
Microsoft blocks employee access to Perplexity AI, a major Azure OpenAI customer.
Microsoft has a target to amass 1.8 million AI chips by the end of the year, internal document shows
Projections in the internal document suggest that Microsoft plans to triple the number of GPUs it has in 2024.
Leaked presentation reveals Microsoft's astounding plan to ramp up data-center capacity for the AI boom
The company wants to quickly double, and then triple, its data-center capacity, according to the confidential presentation.
Former Amazon VP raises $100 million for his warehouse robotics startup as robotics startups see a major rebound
The new funding round for Collaborative Robotics was led by General Catalyst and boosts the startup's valuation to more than $500 million.
Wall Street is obsessed with the growing Salesforce rival HubSpot, whether or not Google makes an offer to buy it
It's unlikely that Google parent Alphabet will buy HubSpot due to antitrust scrutiny. Wall Street is bullish on the cloud software company regardless.
Leaked memo: Microsoft made cuts to its Teams chat org to focus on Copilot AI tools
Microsoft restructured employees to focus on its Copilot AI products, reducing personnel on its Teams chat app.
Leaked emails from inside Walmart Global Tech reveal over a dozen 'major incidents' this quarter
Walmart's global technology platform experiences revenue-impacting outages at a frequent rate, leaving the retailer vulnerable to data breaches.
Microsoft customers complain Copilot doesn't work as well as ChatGPT. Microsoft says they're not using it right.
The company considers the issue to be partly an education problem and thinks users need to write better prompts.
Here's how the project to develop one tractor might revolutionize the farming and automotive industries in the UK
The UK government is investing billions into sustainable manufacturing, and the world's first methane-powered tractor is part of the strategy.