STORY: Nvidia has signed a deal to deploy its artificial intelligence technology at data centers owned by Qatari telecoms group Ooredoo in five Middle Eastern countries. That’s according to Ooredoo’s CEO Aziz Aluthman Fakhroo, who spoke to Reuters. “Ooredoo is very proud to sign that agreement with Nvidia, putting Ooredoo at the forefront in the […]
Fast food is no longer cheap, and fast-casual chains are benefiting from it. Rick Cardenas, CEO of Darden Restaurants—which owns Olive Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze, and Ruth’s Chris Steak House—said during the company’s Thursday earnings call that consumers are seeing “a little bit of a shift” from fast food to its sit-down competitors due […]
By Andrew Mills DOHA (Reuters) – Nvidia has signed a deal to deploy its artificial intelligence technology at data centres owned by Qatari telecoms group Ooredoo in five Middle Eastern countries, Ooredoo’s CEO told Reuters. The agreement marks Nvidia’s first large-scale launch in a region to which Washington has curbed the export of sophisticated U.S. […]
There are few people who can claim to be bigger fans of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) than Michael Saylor. The CEO of MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) has become what could only be described as a Bitcoin evangelist. Over the last four years his company has embarked on a strategy of replacing all its cash on hand with […]
OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever left his company in May after a failed attempt to oust Sam Altman. He announced on June 19 that he would start a new AI project called “Safe Superintellgence Inc.” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Sutskever’s past work sparked the “big bang of deep learning.” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had high praise for […]
Michael Dell, CEO of $100-billion-plus market cap Dell Technologies (DELL), showed at least some vague interest in bitcoin {{BTC}}, recirculating a BTC-friendly post on X from Bitcoin evangelist Michael Saylor. It started Thursday when Dell posted, “Scarcity creates value.” That prompted a reply from Saylor, the executive chairman of MicroStrategy (MSTR), saying, “Bitcoin is Digital […]
Paramount’s (PARA) future looks as uncertain as the ending to a blood and guts horror movie. “I will say Paramount as a company is quite impaired at this point,” Candle Media co-founder Kevin Mayer told Yahoo Finance at the Cannes Lions Festival this week. Mayer is credited with leading the launch of Disney+ and is […]
Paramount’s (PARA) future looks as uncertain as the ending to a blood and guts horror movie. “I will say Paramount as a company is quite impaired at this point,” Candle Media co-founder Kevin Mayer told Yahoo Finance at the Cannes Lions Festival this week. Mayer is credited with leading the launch of Disney+, and is […]
DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines put an unspecified number of employees on leave for their involvement in an incident in which several Black passengers were removed from a flight in Phoenix, allegedly over a complaint about body odor. American CEO Robert Isom wrote in a note to staff that the incident was unacceptable. “I am […]
A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free, here. For all the mistakes and safety problems Boeing has managed under CEO Dave Calhoun’s watch — resulting in a dozen corporate whistleblowers, multiple groundings and a chunk of a plane’s fuselage literally blowing […]
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun returns to his seat after speaking directly to family members of those killed in the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Lion Air Flight 610 crashes during his opening statement before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Investigations Subcommittee hearing on Boeing’s broken safety culture on Capitol Hill on June 18, […]
Susan McDowell was jogging recently with her sister when they found a cellphone. They opened it up, intent on tracking down the owner. Inside were clues to someone’s world: pictures of a man with tattoos, then a first name that sounded familiar to McDowell. Then her sister said, “Oh, and it looks like he’s a […]