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Microsoft Will Spend $3.2 Billion on Swedish AI Infrastructure
artificial intelligence // June 03, 2024

Microsoft is reportedly investing $3.2 billion to expand its AI and cloud operations in Sweden. As Reuters reported Monday (June 3), the investment comes as the increasing popularity of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has led to a boom in demand for cloud services. As such,...

The AI Arms Race Heats Up Ahead of Nvidia Earnings
News // May 22, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is experiencing a gold rush, and Nvidia is at the center of it all. As the chip maker prepares to report its earnings today, the AI landscape is buzzing with activity, from startups raising massive funding rounds to tech giants racing to...

AI Money: Earnings Reports Show a Tech Firm Bonanza
artificial intelligence // May 16, 2024

Tech companies are cashing in on the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, with first-quarter results showing surging demand for everything from voice assistants to cloud computing. The AI gold rush is lifting sales and profit at specialists like SoundHound and Nvidia and more prominent players like Microsoft and Baidu, highlighting...

Making Sense of: How America’s CHIPS Act Fuels Domestic Innovation
Technology // April 26, 2024

American companies are outpacing European ones on innovation and technology. That’s what the head of Norway’s $1.6 trillion oil fund told the Financial Times Wednesday (April 24), and his comments came as just a day later, on Thursday (April 25), French President Emmanuel Macron urged...

Interviews & Exclusives
Cars Become Mobile Payments Points of Sale and Drive Demand for New Partnerships

September 23, 2022
The connected economy has hit the road, transforming what happens and is turning all manner of vehicles into mobile commerce endpoints. At the center of it all lies the technology to underpin that transformation — and the partnerships, too, between FIs, providers and OEMs in the bid to disrupt everything from paying at the pump […]

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Microsoft Will Spend $3.2 Billion on Swedish AI Infrastructure

June 03, 2024
Microsoft is reportedly investing $3.2 billion to expand its AI and cloud operations in Sweden. As Reuters reported Monday (June 3), the investment comes as the increasing popularity of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has led to a boom in demand for cloud services. As such, companies like Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are spending […]

Demand for AI Chips Drives Nvidia Value to $2 Trillion

February 22, 2024
Nvidia, the dominant player in the artificial intelligence (AI) chip market, has surged to a market value of $2 trillion, making it the third most valuable company in the U.S....

Nvidia CEO: AI Experts Will Have Edge in Future Job Markets

May 28, 2023
The CEO of Nvidia issued a warning this weekend: Embrace AI or get left behind. In his commencement address Saturday (May 27) at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Jensen Huang said artificial...