Australia’s centre-left government said on Thursday it planned new rules that would charge big tech firms millions of dollars if they did not pay Australian media companies for news hosted on their platforms.
The Nasdaq Composite Index hit 20,000 for the first time on Wednesday, putting an exclamation point on a year in which excitement over artificial intelligence and expectations of falling interest rates fueled a searing rally in technology stocks.
U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital is set to raise its offer price for Japan’s Fuji Soft to 9,600 yen ($63.35) per share, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Wednesday, trumping a recently increased tender offer bid from rival KKR.
Shares of Google parent Alphabet rose about 5% on Tuesday after it unveiled a new generation chip that the company said helped overcome a key challenge in quantum computing.
Teamviewer has signed a deal to acquire the London-based IT firm 1E for an enterprise value of $720 million, the German software company said on Tuesday.
C3.ai raised its forecast for fiscal year 2025 revenue on Monday, helped by healthy demand for the company’s enterprise artificial intelligence software as companies look for tools to help streamline their workflow.
A co-chair of the U.S. Congressional artificial intelligence task force urged federal energy regulators this week to support the development of data centers directly connected to power plants, citing national security and competition for global AI dominance.
CompuGroup Medical, a German provider of healthcare software, said on Sunday it is in advanced talks to be acquired by CVC Capital Partners for a potential 22 euros ($23.24) per share.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise beat Wall Street expectations for fourth-quarter revenue and profit on Thursday, as it benefits from strong demand for its servers used to power artificial intelligence applications.
Amazon said on Thursday it had successfully completed an initial test of using delivery drones in Italy, the first European country where the e-commerce giant plans to introduce the service.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is in discussions with Nvidia Corp to produce its Blackwell artificial intelligence chips at the contract manufacturer’s new plant in Arizona, three sources familiar with the matter said.
Salesforce shares jumped 12.5% in premarket trading on Wednesday, after the customer relationship management software maker topped quarterly sales estimates and provided an upbeat forecast for its newly launched AI integrated products.
Amazon announced a new slate of artificial intelligence platforms, known as foundation models, at its annual AWS conference, allowing for text, image and video generation, among other things.
Super Micro Computer has begun the search for a new finance chief based on recommendations made by a special committee formed to look into the AI server maker’s accounting practices, the company said on Monday.