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IBM will pay $31 per share in cash for all of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Confluent.

International Business Machines Corp. is buying the data-streaming platform Confluent Inc. for about $9.3 billion, marking one of its largest takeovers yet and a major bet on the kind of enterprise software that artificial intelligence tools need to perform tasks in real time.

NextEra Energy Inc., one of the world’s biggest renewable-energy producers, announced a series of deals aimed at meeting surging demand for electricity to run artificial intelligence systems.

A crop of under-baked new products is splitting the internet into two lanes, forcing website developers to rethink who their pages are for.

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ed Ludlow reports on Amazon’s view on the use of AI in the workplace.

OpenAI’s artificial intelligence products are saving workers an average of about 40 to 60 minutes a day on professional tasks, according to a large survey conducted by the ChatGPT maker amid lingering skepticism of the economic benefits of AI.

... news and keynotes, was AI for the enterprise. This year it was all about upgrades that give customers greater control to customize AI agents...

Amazon Web Services' annual tech conference AWS re:Invent has wrapped. And the singular message, amid a deluge of product news and keynotes, was AI...

Waymo is issuing a software recall for its self-driving cars after reports the company's autonomous vehicles failed to stop for school buses.

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A U.S. judge on Friday finalized his decision for the consequences Google will face for its search monopoly ruling, adding new details to the decided remedies.

Waymo said it will file a voluntary software recall with US federal authorities after its autonomously driven vehicles repeatedly failed to fully slow or stop for school buses.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google must renegotiate any contract to make its search engine or artificial intelligence app the default for smartphones and other devices every year, a federal judge ruled.

HPE CEO Antonio Neri discusses the company’s earnings as its sales for AI servers fall short. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech”. (Source: Bloomberg)

Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha told CNBC that his company's cyber resilience products and new tools for AI agents are helping fuel growth.

A flurry of headlines with the cloud giant at the center comes at the end of a challenging year.

Meta has acquired the startup Limitless, which makes a small, artificial intelligence-powered pendant.

Salesforce pops 5% after earnings beat, aiming for best week since 2023

Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha told CNBC that his company's cyber resilience products and new tools for AI agents are helping fuel growth.

CEO Antonio Neri said he was "pleased" with the quarter despite having some lags in revenue from AI deals due to delays.

CFO Marie Myers said server revenue was hit by the timing of AI service shipments and lower-than-expected government spending.

SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to acquire DigitalBridge Group Inc., a private equity firm that invests in assets such as data centers, as it seeks to take advantage of an AI-driven boom in digital infrastructure, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Shares of the company were down 4.5% in premarket trading after global websites went down and Cloudflare said it was investigating.

Salesforce showed up to earnings priced like a SaaS relic and left with numbers that finally backed the AI pitch, sending the stock up after...

Harvey confirms a third enormous round of funding in 2025 that has skyrocketed its valuation. Again.

Palantir Technologies , Nvidia and U.S. utility CenterPoint Energy on Thursday said they are developing a new software platform to accelerate the...

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to cut resources for building the so-called metaverse, an effort that he once framed as the future of the company and the reason for changing its name from Facebook. Executives were considering potential budget cuts as high as 30 per cent for the metaverse group next year, which includes the virtual worlds product Meta Horizon Worlds and its Quest virtual reality (VR) unit, according to people familiar with the talks, who asked not to be named while...

Replit will expand usage of Google Cloud services, add more of Google's models onto its platform, and support AI coding use cases for enterprise customers.

For the second time in five years, Microsoft is hiking prices for commercial customers of its widely used Office bundles.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has paused a planned $1.3 billion mortgage-bond sale for CyrusOne, the data-center operator that supports CME Group Inc., after a major outage that hit one of the world’s largest derivatives exchanges.