Elon Musk’s xAI faces tougher road building out data centers after EPA rule update

Elon Musk’s xAI faces tougher road building out data centers after EPA rule update

Elon musk and the xAI logo. Vincent Feuray | Afp | Getty Images The Environmental Protection Agency closed a loophole this week that Elon Musk’s xAI had exploited to rapidly stand up its first data center in Memphis, Tennessee. Musk’s artificial intelligence startup created a kind of off-grid power plant for its Colossus facility by … Read more

U.S. Supreme Court to hear suit claiming Cisco helped China pursue Falun Gong

U.S. Supreme Court to hear suit claiming Cisco helped China pursue Falun Gong

People walk past the U.S. Supreme Court building on the first day of their new session in Washington, D.C., U.S., Oct. 6, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal by Cisco Systems in which the tech company and President Donald Trump’s administration are asking the justices … Read more

Exclusive: Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq’s assets for about $20 billion in largest deal on record

Exclusive: Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq’s assets for about  billion in largest deal on record

Jonathan Ross, chief executive officer of Groq Inc., during the GenAI Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. David Paul | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia has agreed to buy assets from Groq, a designer of high-performance artificial intelligence accelerator chips, for $20 billion in cash, according to Alex Davis, CEO … Read more

Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation

Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at .5 billion valuation

Jyoti Bansal, co-founder and CEO of Harness, speaks at the company’s Unscripted conference in London on Sept. 25, 2025. Harness Almost nine years ago, Jyoti Bansal sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion just as the software startup was set to go public. Bansal’s latest venture, Harness, is now worth substantially more than that, after … Read more

Week in review: Stocks swing wildly, Disney disappoints, and we make 6 trades

Week in review: Stocks swing wildly, Disney disappoints, and we make 6 trades

It was a volatile week for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting an all-time high before pulling back. Wall Street pulled money away from Big Tech and into more defensive sectors, such as health care and financials. The end of the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown and expectations for interest rate cuts … Read more

Cisco’s stock jumps on earnings beat, strong guidance and $1.3 billion in AI orders

Cisco’s stock jumps on earnings beat, strong guidance and .3 billion in AI orders

Chuck Robbins, Cisco CEO, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22, 2025. Gerry Miller | CNBC Cisco reported better-than-expected profit and revenue for its fiscal first quarter on Wednesday. The stock rose more than 7% in extended trading. Here’s how the company did in comparison with … Read more