DeepSeek? Who’s that? The Chinese cheap artificial intelligence model maker was supposed to cool investor interest in money-burning AI startups, but that was hardly the case this week. If anything, the AI wars are heating up even more, with a hot new model from Elon Musk’s xAI, the launch of former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer ...

This week, it was all Elon, all the time. Let’s see: Musk offers to buy OpenAI (translation: gums up the works for Sam Altman’s attempt to turn OpenAI for-profit, since OpenAI’s board Friday rejected the offer). Makes Trump look like a babysitter for Musk’s four-year-old son prop at a press conference. Tries to cement his government ...

President Trump’s chaos and Elon Musk’s mischief with his dubious DOGE coup squad continued unabated, with far too many bizarre, racist and probably illegal actions to list here, not to mention rampant conflicts of interest and security and privacy violations. It’s affecting pretty much all of us, including enterprise and tech companies. With all the ...

Suddenly, it looks like a new world in artificial intelligence. The Chinese startup DeepSeek’s cheap new AI model tanked tech stocks broadly, and AI chipmaker Nvidia in particular, this week as the big bets on AI companies spending to the skies on data centers suddenly look bad — for good reason. But worries eased a ...

TikTok returned early this week after a short pause thanks to newly minted President Trump, but it was his other executive orders on AI and crypto that are likely to roil the business world. Meanwhile, Trump’s memecoins and loosening of crypto rules provide a way to funnel money to him while he’s president: corruption in broad daylight. ...

TikTok is about as far from enterprise computing as it gets, but who isn’t watching what its fate will be in coming days? The Chinese-owned social app’s future in the U.S. still hangs in the balance. It appears neither Biden nor especially Trump wants it to shut down abruptly, but the Supreme Court today upheld ...

Leave it to the CES consumer electronics show to wrest Silicon Valley from its holiday slumber, and chipmakers from Nvidia to Advanced Micro Devices to Qualcomm obliged. It was all about enabling artificial intelligence at the desktop and that’s going to require serious hardware horsepower. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang even upgraded his usual leather jacket for ...

Enterprise tech folks seemed to take a break this week, with relatively light news, even though 2025 at large unfortunately started with literal bangs. You can get the main news this week with the headlines below, so I won’t go into detail this time. Besides, what happened this week will pale in comparison to what ...

This was a blessedly slow week — though less so than I thought it would be — so there were just a few highlights I’ll note in quick bullet points so you can get back to the fam too: * Agentic AI is coming — but not for awhile, says theCUBE Research’s Dave Vellante. * OpenAI ...

The bottomless pit of funding for all things artificial intelligence remains… bottomless. Case in point: This week Databricks raised more money than God. That’s going to be one monster IPO next year (maybe) if the economy holds up. Meanwhile, Perplexity raised $500 million for its AI search and immediately bought AI startup Carbon. And continuing ...