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AI hyperscaler startup Nscale has signed a major deal with Microsoft to deploy Nvidia AI hardware across multiple data centers. The AI cloud provider announced Wednesday that it has signed a deal with Microsoft to deploy approximately 200,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs across three data centers in Europe and one in the United States. These GPUs are offered through businesses owned by Nscale and through a joint venture with investment firm Aker, one of Nscale’s investors. About half of those GPUs, 104,000, will be sent to Ionic Digital’s leased data center in Texas over the next 12 to 18 months. Nscale…
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce Inc., speaks at the 2025 Dreamforce conference on Tuesday, October 14, 2025 in San Francisco, California, USA. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Imagessales force Shares rose as much as 5% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the software vendor announced new financial targets for the coming years.The company said it now expects 2030 sales to exceed $60 billion, beating the $58.37 billion consensus of analysts surveyed by LSEG.This guidance excludes the impact of the pending acquisition of data management company Informatica. The $8 billion deal, announced in May, is expected to close in the fourth…
Taraji P. Henson was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 2008’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but years later she was still excited about the $150,000 she was offered for the film, even after producers rejected her $500,000 quote. “You don’t hear $20 million a lot anymore, but that’s what was happening at this point,” Henson said on the Ladies First With Laura Brown podcast in 2021, referring to the film’s stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. “And of course that’s not to say they shouldn’t have paid Kate and Brad their…
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, USA, on Tuesday, September 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Wednesday that the company is “not the world’s chosen morality police” following backlash over his decision to ease restrictions and allow content such as erotica within the chatbot ChatGPT.The artificial intelligence startup has expanded its safety controls in recent months as it faces increased scrutiny over how it protects users, especially minors.But Altman said in a post on X on Tuesday that most restrictions…
Semiconductor design company Arm is partnering with Meta to power the social media giant’s AI systems in an unprecedented infrastructure build. Under the partnership, Meta’s ranking and recommendation system will be migrated to Arm’s Neoverse platform. The platform has recently been optimized for implementations such as AI systems on the cloud. “AI is changing the way people connect and create,” Santosh Janardhan, head of infrastructure at Meta, said in a statement. “By partnering with Arm, we can efficiently extend that innovation to the more than 3 billion people using Meta’s apps and technology.” Best known for its mobile CPU architecture,…
arm holdings CEO Rene Haas told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday that offloading some AI functions could help reduce energy usage.He suggested that over time, many multi-gigawatt data centers will become unsustainable.”Look at yourself. So what needs to happen? I think there are two vectors to that,” Haas said. “One is low power, the lowest power solutions available in the cloud. Arm is a big contributor to that. But I think more specifically, it’s about moving AI workloads from the cloud to local applications.”He said that while AI training will likely always take place in the cloud, the execution of…
Monday’s release of the last 20 surviving Israeli hostages and about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees marks a pivotal moment in the Gaza war, but it is unclear whether it signals an end to the conflict. The plan’s chief architect, U.S. President Donald Trump, visited Israel and Egypt and declared an end to the war at a grand summit of dozens of world leaders, before departing with unanswered questions. Only the first phase of the plan has been implemented, and so far only a few of the 20 goals of President Trump’s plan have been accomplished. Many of the thorniest…
After playing the twins Annie and Harry in her first major role, Lindsay Lohan went on to become one of Hollywood’s biggest young stars with roles in Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, Just My Luck and Prairie Home Companion. After two DUI arrests in 2007 and some time in rehab, Lohan left Hollywood, played Elizabeth Taylor in the 2012 Lifetime film Liz & Dick, appeared in The Canyons in 2013, and then resettled in London, then moved to Dubai.She went on to become an entrepreneur, opening two nightclubs in Greece, and eventually made a comeback with her own MTV reality show,…
October 15, 2025: Walmart U.S. CEO John Farner speaks with CNBC’s Sarah Eisen at the American Investment Forum.Aaron Cramage | CNBCManufacturing is receiving renewed attention from American companies. walmart Some major companies are publicly reaffirming their commitment to domestic production. At CNBC’s first American Investment Forum, Walmart US CEO John Farner said the company is increasing its investment in American-made products and suppliers, explaining this is part of a long-standing strategic priority. “Investing in American manufacturing and American operations is certainly great for business, but it’s great for jobs. It’s great for the country, and it helps make our supply…
On Wednesday, Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, the latest version of its smallest model. It’s touted to offer similar performance to Sonnet 4 “at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed,” according to the company’s blog post. Anthropic cites a variety of new benchmark results to support these performance claims. In the company’s tests, Haiku scored 73% in the validated SWE-Bench and 41% in the command-line focused Terminal-Bench. This is below Sonnet 4.5, but in all cases it was on par with Sonnet 4, GPT-5, and Gemini 2.5. Testing showed similar results for tool usage, computer usage, and…