Amir Efrati

AWS VP Matt Wood, left, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in 2017. Photo via YouTube/Bhushan Sonawane.

Elon Musk seems to enjoy getting into verbal fisticuffs with other CEOs (as Bob Iger of Disney can attest). But his attacks on OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman in a lawsuit last week may have a strategic purpose. In artificial intelligence, talent has long been a priceless commodity. And it’s a good bet Musk’s OpenAI battle has something to do with his effort to recruit or retain key employees for his own AI startup, X.ai.

HashiCorp, which sells tools for running applications on cloud providers and private data centers, is considering selling itself, Bloomberg reported. The stock rose 12% in after-hours trading on Friday following the report but is still down 67% from its initial public offering in late 2021, at the peak of the pandemic-fueled software boom. Its current valuation is about $5 billion.Its slowing

Perhaps no executive in the artificial intelligence field has gone to greater lengths to knock down generative AI hype quite like Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi. A year ago, that looked like sour grapes as OpenAI’s quick progress made many people think that software tools like those Databricks sells ...

Amazon on Wednesday said it would commit $4 billion to artificial intelligence developer Anthropic, capping the second-biggest fundraising by an AI startup in recent memory. The move was expected and came after Amazon last fall said it would give Anthropic up to $4 billion. The announcement on Wednesday confirmed the cloud provider would pony up the full amount.Amazon, Google and Microsoft

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, left, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Photos via Getty. Art: Shane Burke

Microsoft has broken ground on a data center in Wisconsin that is supposed to house the next supercomputer for artificial intelligence developer OpenAI, The Information reported on Friday.When the Wisconsin-based supercomputer is completed by 2027, it could cost as much as $10 billion in capital expenditures, the report said. An even more powerful supercomputer—at one point codenamed

Apple hardware engineers are developing a robot that follow customers in their homes, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. It isn’t clear what the robot would do, and the project is in an early phase, the report said. The report comes as artificial intelligence advances, such as the ability for multimodal large language models to understand and communicate with people about real-world objects, has

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.

Venture investors are paying a hefty premium to back robotics startups harnessing artificial intelligence, hoping one of them can become the robotics version of OpenAI. In the latest example, Skild, a young firm that has been developing software to power various robots including ones with two or ...