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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has begun his testimony against Elon Musk in a high-profile jury trial in a California federal courtroom. Sam Altman takes the stand in trial against Elon Musk Altman follows on the heels of OpenAI’s president, Microsoft’s CEO, and others. Altman follows on

- Meta’s data ingestion system, which our engineering teams leverage for up-to-date snapshots of the social graph, has recently undergone a significant revamp to enhance its reliability at scale. - Moving from our legacy system to our new architecture required a large-scale migra

Hollywood actors and producers are standing behind a new AI licensing standard that will tell AI systems whether they’ll need to pay to use a person’s likeness, creative work, characters, and designs. With the Human Consent Standard, people can set terms for the use of their work

How Imgix processes 8 billion images daily with G4 VMs powered by NVIDIA Blackwell Abhijeet Rajwade Outbound Product Manager, GPUs Jason Baumeister Senior Manager, Imaging Services, Imgix The modern web is extremely visual. People are busy and easily-distracted, and smart compani

Beyond source code: The files AI coding agents trust — and attackers exploit Bernardo Quintero Security Engineering Director, VirusTotal Daniel Kapellmann Zafra Threat Intelligence Strategy Lead, GTIG As AI coding agents become deeply embedded in developer workflows, defenders mu

Artificial Intelligence Automate schema generation for intelligent document processing Before you can extract information from documents using intelligent document processing (IDP) techniques, you need a schema for each document class that defines what to extract. But how do you

Rivian’s AI-powered voice assistant is rolling out today to the company’s vehicle fleet. The assistant will be available through a software update to all compatible Rivian Gen 1 and Gen 2 vehicle owners who subscribe to the company’s Connect Plus cellular service, which costs $15

Artificial Intelligence Navigating EU AI Act requirements for LLM fine-tuning on Amazon SageMaker AI The EU AI Act requires organizations fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) to track computational resources measured in floating-point operations (FLOPs) to determine complianc

MOST POPULAR EVENTS - Toxic Flows: When Your AI Agent Skill Becomes a Supply Chain Attack When a developer installs an AI agent skill – granting it access to secured IT resources and data – they make a significant trust decision. - The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Tuesday. If you're a big Amazon user, your orders could soon arrive much faster. The e-commerce titan this morning announced plans to roll out 30-minute delivery in dozens of

Trump administration reportedly debating ban on Chinese cellular modules in expansion of FCC crackdown — potential restrictions could impact everything from smart devices and routers to connected cars and industrial IoT systems Chinese firms control over 70% of the global cellula

As bad actors weaponize AI to exploit software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed, companies are increasingly recognizing the need to bolster their cybersecurity defenses. Fortunately, those very AI tools are also helping businesses fight back. The need for such capabilities

PARTNER CONTENT The storage refresh that outlives the flash cycle Partner content: Storage architects who scoped a refresh in 2024 are looking at 2026 budgets that no longer cover the capacity they were supposed to buy. The conventional responses — deferring, cutting scope, or ab

TSMC allocates $20 billion to Arizona expansion — project faces water and labor shortages, complicated by visa rules Despite challenges, TSMC is optimistic about Fab 21. TSMC's board of directors on Tuesday approved a capital injection of $20 billion into the company's wholly own

MOST POPULAR EVENTS - Toxic Flows: When Your AI Agent Skill Becomes a Supply Chain Attack When a developer installs an AI agent skill – granting it access to secured IT resources and data – they make a significant trust decision. - The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence

Waymo has issued a software update to its fleet of nearly 4,000 vehicles to help them avoid flooded roads as part of a recall announced by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Tuesday. But the company hasn’t fully solved the problem of how its vehicles be

Microsoft staunchly defends its new 'Low Latency Profile' for Windows 11 after community backlash — says every other OS already boosts CPU speeds for quicker load times The quest to fix Windows 11 is a bumpy one. Last week, news of Microsoft working on a new "Low Latency Profile"

MOST POPULAR EVENTS - Toxic Flows: When Your AI Agent Skill Becomes a Supply Chain Attack When a developer installs an AI agent skill – granting it access to secured IT resources and data – they make a significant trust decision. - The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence

Amazon is rolling out "ultra-fast" deliveries to get packages to consumers in 30 minutes or less in dozens of cities across the U.S., the company announced Tuesday, marking its most aggressive push yet into quick commerce. The company started piloting the service, called Amazon N

Jensen Huang snubbed by White House for President Trump’s China state visit — Nvidia CEO not on roster, which includes Apple's Tim Cook and Elon Musk One expert says this is a sign that Beijing won't be getting advanced AI chips anytime soon. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is surprising

Scality’s Autonomous Data Infrastructure does agent-driven tiering and more Object storage supplier Scality has launched an enterprise-focussed data infrastructure management product called ADI (Autonomous Data Infrastructure) to place data in four performance, cost, and protecti

Nscale’s $790M Financing Marks a Shift to Utility-Style Deals A $790 million financing package for Nscale’s Norway campus highlights how AI infrastructure is increasingly competing for energy capacity, industrial capital, and grid access. Nordic and European lenders are pouring a

MOST POPULAR EVENTS - Toxic Flows: When Your AI Agent Skill Becomes a Supply Chain Attack When a developer installs an AI agent skill – granting it access to secured IT resources and data – they make a significant trust decision. - The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence

Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks in a bid to show managers they are using the technology more frequently. The Seattle-based group has started to widely deploy its in-house “MeshClaw” product in recent weeks, allowing employees to crea

MOST POPULAR EVENTS - Toxic Flows: When Your AI Agent Skill Becomes a Supply Chain Attack When a developer installs an AI agent skill – granting it access to secured IT resources and data – they make a significant trust decision. - The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence

Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores — workers complain of intense pressure to use AI tools Employees at Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft have been gaming AI usage metrics. Amazon is the latest hyperscaler where employees have been caught i

MOST POPULAR EVENTS - Toxic Flows: When Your AI Agent Skill Becomes a Supply Chain Attack When a developer installs an AI agent skill – granting it access to secured IT resources and data – they make a significant trust decision. - The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence

From finance and procurement to supply chain and manufacturing, specialized AI agents are moving into the enterprise systems where business decisions are made, data is accessed and workflows run at scale. Announced today at SAP Sapphire — where NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang

AI/ML MinIO adds petabyte-scale MemKV cache for Nvidia GPU inference MinIO has built a petabyte-scale MemKV caching system for Nvidia GPUs, effectively sitting atop its AIStor object storage. A cluster of GPUs running AI inferencing workloads needs closely coupled high-bandwidth

MOST POPULAR EVENTS - Toxic Flows: When Your AI Agent Skill Becomes a Supply Chain Attack When a developer installs an AI agent skill – granting it access to secured IT resources and data – they make a significant trust decision. - The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence

Compromised Mistral AI and TanStack packages may have exposed GitHub, cloud and CI/CD credentials in 'mini Shai Hulud' malware infection — supply-chain campaign spreads across npm and AI developer ecosystems like wildfire The malware reportedly refused to run on Russian-language