Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley

For many years, Tony Tran's daughters begged him to hang Christmas lights outside their San Jose home. He kept saying, Next year. Tran finally relented in 2018 and strung a few light strings. But his decorative ambitions really shot up to a whole new level when he, his wife and his then-teenaged daughters needed a family project during the COVID-19 lockdown. My daughters said, We can't go out of the house, and we could put on a really nice display for the neighborhood,' Tran said.

After yesterday's debacle in which approximately $1 trillion in market capitalization was erased from the stock market, some technology stocks are still hunting a bottom. With the Nasdaq Composite now down 3% for the month of November so far, the AI rally has lost its steam for the time being as the markets wrestle with bullish fundamentals overshadowed by negative headlines. While the selling hasn't been pretty for the bulls, it does not appear to be over, at least not yet.

Despite his vast fortunes, Elon Musk has an incredible ability to turn an enterprise into radioactive waste. Tesla, for example, has suffered unprecedented brand damage owing to Musk's rampage through the federal government, while the Boring Company is becoming a nearly $1 billion disaster. Another looming case in point: the user base on X-formerly-Twitter has been stagnating miserably since its acquisition by the billionaire in October of 2022.

Intuit said its tools, such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks and Mailchimp, will be accessible through ChatGPT, allowing users to ask questions and complete tasks such as estimating tax refunds, reviewing credit options, or managing business finances. With users' permission, Intuit's apps will be able to access their financial data to generate responses and complete tasks, like sending marketing messages or issuing invoice reminders.

AMD continues to claw market share away from Intel in CPU shipments, growing faster than its rival in most segments. Meanwhile business in the x86 processor arena is unusually flat overall, likely due to stockpiling over tariff fears. PC component market watcher Mercury Research says AMD's shipments during the third quarter of 2025 outpaced Intel's compared with the same quarter last year.

Last week, shares of Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) plunged nearly 13% before recovering almost all of that loss to finish the past five trading sessions up 0.85%. Despite last week's AI-fueled sell-off, the stock is up 157.49% in 2025. Over the past year, PLTR is up more than 221%, and since going public on Oct. 2, 2020, it has gained an eye-popping 2,004.46%.

Eight days before his employment was to end, Luo allegedly hooked up an external hard drive to his Intel laptop, but when he tried to download a file, the company's internal controls blocked the transfer, the lawsuit claimed. Five days later, the lawsuit alleged, Luo deployed a different technology, a more sophisticated gadget that resembles a small computer server, called a network storage device.

Alphabet (GOOGL) (GOOG) and Wiz have moved closer to completing their $32 billion deal. The U.S. Department of Justice has finished its review, which means the agency will not block the acquisition. The step marks an important move toward closing, even though other regulators are still looking into the deal. The news comes just a few days after Alphabet delivered its first-ever $100 billion quarter.

It's been less than a week since OpenAI completed its for-profit restructuring that saw Microsoft lose its ability to retain a stranglehold on the AI firm's computing resources, and Altman and company have already inked a $38 billion deal with AWS to start data crunching in another cloud. Prior to the restructuring that closed last Tuesday, Microsoft retained a right of first refusal if OpenAI were to take its cloud computing needs elsewhere,

The actions we took to strengthen the balance sheet give us greater operational flexibility and position us well to continue to execute our strategy with confidence. In particular, I'm honored by the trust and confidence President Trump and Secretary [Howard] Lutnick have placed in me. Their support highlights Intel's strategic role as the only U.S.-based semiconductor company with leading edge logic, [research and development] and manufacturing.

And while it is true that Jobs was as charismatic as Clooney and as manipulative as Machiavelli, the legend we helped him construct served many purposes beyond pumping up his own ego. He was an irresistible force who knew that in order to bring to market the amazing technological wonders that bubbled in his imagination, he also had to become the Svengali of the digital revolution that was to be the hallmark of his generation.

Many of the world's largest websites, including Snapchat, Reddit and Roblox, were knocked offline on Monday after a huge Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage. More than 1,000 apps and websites - including banks such as Lloyds and Halifax - were impacted by problems at the heart of the cloud computing giant's operations in the US, according to platform outage monitor Downdetector. It said reports from users of problems globally had soared to more than 6.5 million during the outage on Monday morning. While Amazon said it had resolved the outage by 12:00 BST, experts say it demonstrates the perils that come with lots of companies relying on a single, dominant provider.

New graduates are leaving college and heading into a tough labor market-entry-level roles are dwindling, managers are wary of hiring Gen Z candidates, and AI continues to automate more jobs. But Meta is actively on the hunt for fresh talent, and it's willing to pay the big bucks for the brightest young minds. The $1.8 trillion technology company has a few entry-level jobs on the market: a Full-stack software engineer, and multiple product software engineer roles.

TSM's growth story in 2025 hinges on artificial intelligence (AI) demand, which has transformed the company from a steady foundry into an indispensable AI enabler. Second-quarter revenue hit $30.1 billion, a 44% year-over-year jump that exceeded analyst forecasts. This beat stemmed from robust orders for advanced nodes like 3-nanometer (nm) and 5nm, which power Nvidia's GPUs and Apple's latest processors. Advanced technologies, defined as 7nm and more advanced technologies, accounted for 74% of total wafer revenue.

Intel has begun clawing back production from TSMC with the introduction of its Panther Lake processors, the company's first chip based on its long-awaited 18A process tech. The x86 giant began volume production of the processor's compute tiles at Fab 52 located at its Ocotillo campus in Arizona this summer, with the first notebooks and computers based on the SoC slated for release around the time of CES early next year.

According to internal documents viewed by CNBC, working remotely for even a single day will now count for a full week. "Whether you log 1 WFA day or 5 WFA days in a given standard work week, 1 WFA week will be deducted from your WFA weekly balance," according to a document that was circulated over the summer, shortly before the change went into effect.

Nair found the interview process at both companies to be "fairly similar," he said, with strong emphasis on problem-solving, coding skills, and system design. "Each company evaluated candidates for both technical expertise and cultural fit," Nair said, through four to five technical interviews and then a cultural-fit assessment. However, he found Google's technical interview process to be the hardest out of the Big Tech companies he's interviewed at.

I once played squash with a wealthy investor at a private club in Singapore. Even though it was a friendly game, I still didn't want it to be a total wipeout. I'm not great at squash, and I knew my opponent was a regular player. But he was in his 60s, and I was in my 30s, so I figured how hard could it be? Surely, I could outrun and outwork him.

"Right now, San Jose 311 really relies on our residents to report issues in San Jose and that shouldn't be their job," San Jose Information Technology Dept. Public Information Manager Chelsea Palacio said. "That should be on the city to find those issues and resolve them. So, with AI technology, we're hoping that we can be a more proactive city."

With Donald Trump expected to sign a deal that will keep TikTok operating in the U.S., many have speculated who might benefit the most if/when this takes place. Among the biggest potential winners is Oracle (ORCL), with the company set to oversee the algorithm of the social media platform and keep the data protected from would-be hackers.