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It’s not just software stocks that have been hammered by investor anxieties about the threat AI poses to software. Prices that investors are willing to pay for syndicated bank debt to software firms dropped nearly 7% in March from the previous year, according to Pitchbook, while prices for similar loans in other sectors fell fractionally.
That big price drop is a sign that investor demand for debt from riskier software companies has plunged amid AI disruption fears. If these trends continue, software firms
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How many AI chip designers can the public market support? We’ll get a sense of that on Thursday when Cerebras Systems, the biggest of a new generation of chip designers dedicated to AI, is expected to go public at a valuation of $35 billion. If it follows the pattern of other AI-related IPOs, such as cloud firm CoreWeave, Cerebras will be a big hit. CoreWeave went public a year ago... Read more ›
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Major American cloud companies with data centers in the Persian Gulf "are channeling data out of the war zone through fiber-optic cables that an Iraqi telecom has strung alongside crude-oil pipelines," reports RestofWorld.org: The data centers serve customers in more than 190 countries, processing transactions, storing files, and running applications for businesses and individuals from Latin America to South Asia. When Iranian drones struck Amazon's facilities in the United Arab... Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says new grads have reasons to be optimistic as the embark on the start of their careers. Read more ›
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We didn't see too many new announcements over the past week, which probably explains why our trending chart has a very similar look to last week. Once again we have the Samsung Galaxy A57 leading the pack, followed by the Galaxy S26 Ultra and the Honor 600 Pro. [#InlinePriceWidget, 14320, 1#] The biggest gainer is the Galaxy A17, now up to fourth, followed by the Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max,... Read more ›
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Anthropic is close to sealing the creation of a joint venture with private equity firms to sell its AI to the PE firms’ customers, the Wall Street Journal reported late Sunday, confirming earlier reporting by The Information. Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman are each expected to ... Read more ›
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Video game retailer GameStop said Sunday that it had offered to buy e-commerce site eBay for $125 a share in cash and stock, a 20% increase from eBay’s share price Friday. The games retailer said it’s now built a 5% position in eBay, which it started to accumulate on February 4. GameStop CEO ... Read more ›
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Elon Musk messaged OpenAI president Greg Brockman to gauge his interest in a possible settlement of Musk’s lawsuit against him a couple days before the trial began, according to a document that OpenAI’s lawyers filed with the court on Sunday night. Musk sent his message on or about April 25, two ... Read more ›
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Some enterprise software companies are worried enough about customers using AI agents to access their data that they’re planning to install tollgates to their apps. And then there are software companies like SAP. Last month, the $200 billion German firm published a policy document for customers, suggesting it would ban them from using external AI agents to access data they store in SAP apps without the company’s official endorsement. SAP... Read more ›
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When Cursor agreed to a $60 billion conditional takeover offer from SpaceX last month—the purchase isn’t definite—some of Cursor’s rivals expected the coding startup to work with SpaceX’s xAI unit to develop new models, specifically for coding.That’s not happening anytime soon, apparently. Cursor doesn’t currently plan to codevelop coding models with xAI and is focused on improving its own model, Composer, which is powered in part by Chinese model Kimi,... Read more ›
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Good morning! Anissa here. We’ve been tracking Google’s effort to expand the reach of its tensor processing units for quite a while, and two developments last week helped us understand where things are actually headed.On one hand, Google said on its earnings call that it plans to sell its TPUs directly to customers for use in their own data centers—something we first reported last fall. The move marks a significant... Read more ›
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OpenAI President Greg Brockman said his stake in the startup he cofounded is worth close to $30 billion. His comment came in response to questioning from a lawyer for Elon Musk as Brockman began his testimony in the trial over Musk’s lawsuit alleging breach of charitable trust at OpenAI. The ... Read more ›
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OpenAI has raised $4 billion from 19 private equity firms and consultancies including TPG, Brookfield Asset Management, Bain Capital and Advent for a new company that will employ specialized tech consultants to help the PE firms’ portfolio companies integrate AI, according to a person with ... Read more ›
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Pinterest’s revenue growth accelerated to 18% in the first quarter, lifting its topline to $854.9 million, the company said Monday afternoon. The digital bulletin board firm said its monthly active user count grew 11%, down a slightly slower growth rate than the fourth quarter. U.S. users grew ... Read more ›
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Cisco announced its intent to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Astrix, confirming The Information’s report from April. The company didn’t announce an acquisition price. The Information reported that Cisco was in talks to acquire Astrix for between $250 million to $350 million, at least a ... Read more ›
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