Nvidia gets an AI boost, Meta hits a AI roadblock, and Apple's brutal year: Tech news roundupPlus, Sam Altman says Gen Z doesn't make life decisions without ChatGPT
Microsoft is cutting 3% of its workforce with across-the-board layoffsMicrosoft joins the latest wave of AI-era tech layoffs, axing almost 7,000 employees
Celsius founder gets 12 years in prison for crypto fraudAlex Mashinsky, founder and former CEO of the crypto lender Celsius Network, was found guilty of fraud in December
Apple says tariffs will cost it a whopping $900 million this quarterCEO Tim Cook said Apple will buy more than 19 billion chips from U.S. manufacturers and continue to shift manufacturing from China to India
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang got his first raise in a decadeHuang's compensation now totals $49.9 million, according to a new filing
It looks like Meta just hit a big AI roadblockRollout of its next Llama model is reportedly delayed, as engineers struggle to improve its capabilities
Nvidia-backed CoreWeave's big AI spending spooks investors — and the stock tanks 13%The data center company's capital expenditure for 2025 exceeded analysts' forecasts
Elon Musk’s Grok AI keeps bringing up 'white genocide'The chatbot hijacked conversations with the subject — even in response to questions about baseball and cat videos
Google sticks an AI button on its search bar as it fights off ChatGPTThe search tool's "AI Mode" is already available for some users
Amazon says its new robot has a sense of touchTypical robots are "numb and dumb," but Amazon says this new one has "finesse"
Nvidia says it will build AI supercomputers in America for the first time everThe AI chip maker announced $500 billion in manufacturing commitments over the next four years
A Chinese brain chip company could soon surpass Elon Musk's NeuralinkThe state-owned brain chip company plans to implant its experimental device on at least 13 patients by the end of the year
10 states where data centers use the most electricityMore than a quarter of Virginia's electricity consumption is from data centers, according to an EPRI analysis
Now playing 08:15Nuclear will power AI data centers in the future, Northern Data exec saysRosanne Kincaid-Smith, COO of Northern Data Group, told Quartz that Northern Data will likely transition from hydro-electric to nuclear to power the AI future
AI is pushing data centers toward a nuclear-powered futureAmazon, Microsoft, and Google have announced partnerships with energy companies to set up small nuclear reactors
Amazon beats earnings expectations on strong cloud growthAmazon reported revenues of $158.9 billion in the third quarter, surpassing Wall Street's estimates
Amazon's SpaceX Starlink competitor was launched into space for the first timeThe launch for Amazon's Project Kuiper is a major step for the company if it wants to eventually catch up to Elon Musk's Starlink
The new space race is just getting startedBeyond some celebrity spectacle lies a more consequential story: There's a fortune to be made in the cosmos
Watch live: The Boeing Starliner astronauts return to Earth after 9 months stuck in spaceButch Wilmore and Suni Williams are coming home on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. They went to the ISS for an eight-day trip that turned into a long ordeal
The Boeing Starliner astronauts are finally coming home.Astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams' eight-day trip to space turned into a nine-month stay
Gaming in your car? Google adds distractions while experts warn of hacked vehiclesThe introduction of games to vehicles brings a slew of potential hazards
The 7 best cities in America for cybersecurity and IT jobsThe list accounts for earnings, opportunities, and career trajectories
The 5 states where you're most vulnerable to identity theft and fraud — and the 5 states where you're safestAmericans lost an estimated $10 billion to fraud in 2023
Goldman Sachs CFO thinks geopolitics and cybersecurity are major market risksMarkets aren't sufficiently pricing in domestic and international political unrest, Denis Coleman said
Trump wants Apple to stop building iPhones in India — just as production ramps upByCatherine BaabPublishedMay 15, 2025
A Saudi AI opportunity worth $1 trillion wins over Wall Street — and boosts Nvidia stockByCatherine BaabPublishedMay 14, 2025
Sam Altman's Gen Z brag: 'They don’t really make life decisions without asking ChatGPT'ByShannon CarrollPublishedMay 13, 2025
Trump says he spoke to Apple CEO Tim Cook after announcing the tariffs pauseByBen KesslenPublishedMay 12, 2025
The case against Google, Nvidia's chip win, and Mark Zuckerberg's AI friends: Tech news roundupPublishedMay 10, 2025
Nvidia and other chipmakers are getting a big win as Trump kills the 'AI diffusion rule'ByNiamh RoweUpdatedMay 8, 2025
