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ASML Makes Its Move

The Chipmaker's AI Ordinarily, the company that makes the printing presses does not buy a stake in the author. In the neat, layered world of technology, hardware companies make the physical stuff, and software companies make the virtual stuff that runs on it. This week, that tidy separation

OpenAI's Landlord Problem

The $115 Billion Burn The artificial intelligence business continues to be a story of landlords and tenants. The landlords—Microsoft, Amazon, Google—own the vast, expensive data centers. The tenants—AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic—rent immense amounts of computing power to train and run their models. For a
OpenAI's Landlord Problem

The Software Seat-Eater

The Per-Seat Problem Salesforce, a titan of the cloud software era, has become one of the worst-performing stocks in the S&P 500 this year. The stock has plunged 23%, a dramatic reversal for a company that had soared over 150% in the preceding two years. The slump stands
The Software Seat-Eater

Did AI Just Save Google?

The Market Moves Faster Than the Law The funny thing about being found guilty of running an illegal monopoly is that it might be the best news your shareholders get all year. After a five-year legal battle, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday that while Google did indeed maintain an
Did AI Just Save Google?

Who Wins When Robots Fight Robots?

Cybersecurity's Kafka Problem Modern cybersecurity has entered a truly Kafka-esque state of affairs. The problem, it seems, is artificial intelligence. The solution, it turns out, is also artificial intelligence. Last week, identity management platform Okta and cybersecurity company SentinelOne provided a financial snapshot of just how profitable this
Who Wins When Robots Fight Robots?

The Law of Large Numbers Comes for Nvidia

Nvidia’s New Normal One way to think about being a $4 trillion company is that even your spectacular successes can start to look like a slowdown. This, in essence, was the story of Nvidia's latest earnings report. The company posted another quarter of record revenue, with sales
The Law of Large Numbers Comes for Nvidia

When Car Company Tries to Be Software Company

Software Is Hard One theory about the future of the car industry is that car companies need to become software companies. The idea is that cars are becoming iPhones on wheels, and the real money won't be in selling the metal box once, but in selling high-margin software
When Car Company Tries to Be Software Company

AI Model War Is Over. Now What?

The Next AI S-Curve The funny thing about a technological arms race is that eventually, everyone’s weapons start to look the same. According to David Luan, the head of Amazon’s AGI research lab, that moment has arrived for the large language models at the heart of the AI
AI Model War Is Over. Now What?

The Lutnick Insult

Saying the Quiet Part Loud The US-China tech war entered a truly baffling phase. For weeks, Chinese authorities have been cautioning their own tech giants—Tencent, Baidu, ByteDance—against buying Nvidia's newly approved H20 AI chips. The warnings, which cited vague security concerns, made little sense. Why would
The Lutnick Insult

The Intel Bailout

Is Intel Too Big To Fail? It is becoming difficult to go a week without a new, dramatic chapter in the story of Intel. This week was no exception, as a peculiar thing happened. The US government, a vocal champion of free-market capitalism, and SoftBank, a Japanese venture capital behemoth
The Intel Bailout