Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Tuesday that “there has to be some regulation” of artificial intelligence, pointing to several documented cases of suicide linked to the technology. “This year, you really saw something pretty horrific, which is these AI models became suicide coaches,” Benioff told CNBC’s Sarah Eisen on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum’s…
Anthropic on Tuesday announced it has appointed legal and international affairs expert Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar to its Long-Term Benefit Trust, the company’s independent governance structure that selects Anthropic’s board members and advises leadership. Cuéllar has served in three U.S. presidential administrations, acted as a Justice of the Supreme Court of California and chairs the board of the…
Richard Teng, co-CEO of Binance, during the DC Blockchain Summit in Washington, March 26, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ripple’s CEO predicted Binance would reenter the U.S., as the cryptocurrency exchange’s co-CEO said it would adopt a “wait-and-see” approach. Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, exited the U.S. in 2023 as part of…
Bill McDermott, CEO of ServiceNow (L), and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. Reuters ServiceNow signed a three-year deal with OpenAI to use its artificial intelligence models to give businesses access to AI agents, the companies announced on Tuesday. As part of the deal, ServiceNow will integrate GPT-5.2 into its enterprise workflow platform and create AI…
Mark Zuckerberg attends the UFC 320 event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Oct. 4, 2025. Chris Unger | Ufc | Getty Images More than half of all ads on Meta’s Instagram ran in the service’s short-form video product Reels in 2025, up from 35% in 2024, according to data from market intelligence firm Sensor…
Evercore ISI said Toast ‘s recent pullback has created a more attractive risk-reward setup. The investment firm upgraded the restaurant management software stock to an outperform rating from in line. Analyst Adam Frisch’s $40 price target offers upside of 19% from where shares of Toast closed Friday. Toast stock has slipped 12% over the past…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said President Donald Trump‘s sweeping tariffs are starting to be reflected in the price of some items, as sellers weigh how to absorb the shock of the added costs. Amazon and many of its third-party merchants pre-purchased inventory to try to get ahead of the tariffs and keep prices low for…
Trades work at the New York Stock Exchange on Jan. 16, 2026. NYSE Technology shares led the declines in U.S. stocks on Tuesday as investors reacted to escalating tariff rhetoric tied to President Donald Trump’s renewed push around Greenland. The State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) fell 2.2%. Nvidia, Meta Platforms and Google-parent…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gestures as he speaks during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 20, 2026. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images) Fabrice Coffrini | Afp | Getty Images Energy costs will be key to deciding which country wins the AI race, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella…
Tech companies have raced to build out compute capacity to fuel their AI ambitions but are now faced with a new bottleneck: memory capacity. The crunch comes as workloads shift from training models to using AI tools, and it’s driven in part by agentic AI, where a system can execute tasks independently. AI agents require…