With the CES consumer electronics show as usual setting the news year in motion, the technology industry got busy again this week. The biggest deal, and biggest surprise, was Hewlett Packard Enterprise making a $14 billion bid for Juniper Networks, for better or worse looking to challenge Cisco Systems for networking leadership as artificial intelligence ...

Silicon Valley returned to work slowly and reluctantly following the holidays, starting about Wednesday based on the volume of story pitches sent to me, but there was still plenty of news. Not surprisingly, artificial intelligence, which never seems to take a vacation, led the way. OpenAI is about to open a ChatGPT store — AI ...

Not surprisingly, it was a pretty slow week for enterprise technology given the holidays, but there was still some significant news in artificial intelligence, chips and cybersecurity — and of course it’s that time of year for predictions, which we started rolling out this week, with more in coming weeks. Here’s a sampling of the ...

News may be slowing down this week in anticipation of the holiday next week, but cyber criminals, cyber cops and antitrust hawks are not. And despite some high-profile antitrust fallout, such as Adobe abandoning its acquisition of Figma and Apple came under antitrust fire on two fronts, consolidation and even new fundings in enterprise software ...

Even as new funding of artificial intelligence companies keeps on coming, new guardrails on the behavior of generative AI models are getting put in place as well, as we saw moves this week both by companies and by governments. What’s more, the open-source community is weighing in with the contention that AI models will be ...

With its new AI model Gemini, Google this week cracked open the generative AI race even wider — as we said would happen following that pre-Thanksgiving OpenAI debacle. Gemini, which Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai promised way back in May at its I/O conference (pictured) would be coming this year, is still only partially ...

Not for the first time, this week was all about the quickening battle for leadership in artificial intelligence, especially the generative variety. That was abundantly clear at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, which SiliconANGLE and its livestreaming video studio theCUBE, as well as our newly constituted market research arm theCUBE ...

What else mattered this week besides OpenAI? Well, plenty, but nothing to match the drama as CEO Sam Altman first gets fired, then rehired within days as nearly the entirely company revolts against the erstwhile board, to great joy among the troops (pictured). There’s still mystery behind the precise reasons for the internal split, but ...

Updated with continuing uncertainty: The unprecedented drama at OpenAI continues today as 49% investor Microsoft Corp. put its big feet down and hired former Chief Executive Sam Altman and co-founder and former President Greg Brockman for a new artificial intelligence research group at Microsoft. The move comes as more than 500 of OpenAI’s 770-person staff ...

Microsoft is now the Copilot company, Chief Executive Satya Nadella declared this week at the company’s Ignite conference, not only spreading generative AI across its products but also announcing its first AI processor designs. The flurry of news at Ignite was just one sign of how much gen AI is getting infused into every enterprise ...