Broadcom’s Softer Outlook Shakes the Chip Trade, and Analysts See a Buying Window
The number that detonated the semiconductor market last week was not a loss. Broadcom reported record revenue of $22.19 billion for its fiscal second quarter, up 48 percent from a…
Mira Murati Steps Back Into the Spotlight, Carefully
The stage was set in San Francisco on Thursday for the Bloomberg Technology Summit, and the seat at the front of the room belonged to someone the AI industry had…
Huang Takes AI Dinner Diplomacy to Seoul, and Nvidia Opens a Korea Tech Center
At 7:10 p.m. on Friday, the center of gravity of the global AI supply chain moved to a pork belly restaurant in Seoul’s Mapo district. Jensen Huang, chief executive of…
ByteDance Says It Won’t Build Cars, Even as the Industry Around It Does
The name sounded like a corporate marriage announcement: Saidou, a blend of Seres and Doubao, ByteDance’s AI assistant, and the market drew its own conclusions. Reports spread that ByteDance, the…
Google Cloud’s Quiet Cuts Reach Its Elite Threat Hunters
The notice arrived after dark. Andrew Kopcienski, a principal threat intelligence analyst at Google, wrote on LinkedIn that he had been laid off “alongside a lot of other great folks…
Broadcom’s Record Quarter Rattles Chip Investors
The report was, by any ordinary measure, exceptional. Broadcom posted revenue of $22.19 billion for its fiscal second quarter, up 48% from a year earlier. AI semiconductor revenue hit $10.8…
SpaceX Prices Its IPO at $1.77 Trillion
The price was fixed, no range, and the room was told so up front. At the SpaceX investor roadshow in midtown Manhattan this week, the screen showed $135 a share,…
Anthropic Makes Its IPO Case as OpenAI Rushes Its Own Silicon
The question came up in the first minutes of the meeting, and Daniela Amodei did not flinch. When will the billions spent on AI models produce returns? Anthropic’s president, pitching…
Alphabet Raises $85 Billion to Feed Google’s AI Buildout
The announcement on June 1 was the largest equity raise Alphabet has ever attempted. Two days later, after the underwritten portion was oversubscribed, the company upsized it. Bloomberg reported the…
Apple Opens Messages to an AI Agent and Puts Its Glasses On
The startup is called Poke, and it has done something no other company has managed: get an AI agent approved to run on Apple’s Messages for Business platform. The approval,…
