Daniel Howley

    Technology Editor

    Daniel Howley is the tech editor at Yahoo Finance. He began covering the tech industry since 2011 as a writer for Laptop Magazine where he reviewed laptops and smartphones. He now reports on the business of Big Tech ranging from product announcements and earnings to deeply reported trend pieces and interviews.

  • Nvidia announces Project GR00T AI technology for human-like robots

    Nvidia on Monday announced its new Project GR00T AI software for powering human-like robots.

  • Nvidia bringing its Omniverse technology to Apple's Vision Pro headset

    Nvidia is bringing its Omniverse technology to Apple's Vision Pro AR/VR headset.

  • Nvidia debuts next-generation Blackwell AI chip at GTC 2024

    Nvidia on Monday announced its new Blackwell GPU for AI and Grace Blackwell Superchip.

  • Nvidia GTC 2024: What to expect from the AI giant’s big conference

    Nvidia's GTC 2024 conference kicks off Monday and the AI darling is expected to announce a slew of new products and updates.

  • Qualcomm debuts AI-focused Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chip

    Qualcomm on Monday announced its new Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chip for smartphones.

  • Nvidia GTC AI conference: What to watch

    To say Nvidia (NVDA) is on a hot streak is an understatement. Shares of the AI darling are up a staggering 232 percent over the past 12 months, and 84 percent year-to-date. Tech companies across the world covet its graphics cards like rare jewels, and CEO Jensen Huang is as in demand as some heads of state. On Monday March 18, Huang will kick off Nvidia’s annual GTC conference with a two-hour keynote at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, outlining what’s ahead for the company through 2024. In prior years, Nvidia has used the show to announce some of its biggest products. And this year, Nvidia is widely expected to debut its latest graphics architecture and graphics processing chip, kicking off what could be a new rush on the company’s products. The new architecture, codenamed Blackwell, and GPU, dubbed the B100, are expected to offer far better performance when it comes to running AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-3 than the company’s current top of the line H100 and h200 cards. Nvidia isn’t exactly hiding its plans for the B100. During the Supercomputer 2023 conference, the company showed off a slide outlining the GPU’s potential performance. In addition to the Blackwell architecture and B100 card, Nvidia will likely give attendees and viewers a look at the latest advancements to its CUDA software. The platform, which lets programmers take advantage of a GPU’s processing capabilities for AI and other applications, is an essential part of Nvidia’s overall enterprise strategy and helps lock in developers who build on Nvidia’s software, virtually ensuring they’ll stick with Nvidia’s products in the future. Nvidia could also announce that it will begin producing its H20 AI chip for the Chinese market. The chip, according to Reuters, is meant to serve as an alternative to Nvidia’s more powerful H100 and H200 chips, which Nvidia is prohibited from shipping to china for fear that the country’s government will use them to produce AI applications for its military. Those are the big stories we’ll be watching from GTC, but you can likely expect plenty of other announcements and debuts from both Nvidia and its partners. Yahoo Finance will be on the ground bringing you all of the biggest news from the conference and chatting with some of Nvidia’s top executives. Stay tuned.

  • Former Treasury Sec. Steven Mnuchin says he's looking to buy TikTok

    Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he's working with a group of investors to buy TikTok.

  • It’s not all doom and gloom for Apple in 2024

    Apple's 2024 isn't going great, but it has plenty of time to make up for it.

  • Microsoft to launch generative AI security software as competition continues to grow

    Microsoft is launching its AI tool Microsoft Security Copilot.

  • Apple MacBook Air 2024 review: The best keeps getting better

    Apple's M3-powered MacBook Air 13-inch and 15-inch promise strong performance and exceptional battery life.

  • Amazon’s generative AI bot Rufus makes online shopping easier (for the most part)

    Amazon's AI chatbot Rufus genuinely makes shopping on the vast e-commerce website easier, despite a few hiccups.

  • OpenAI’s success has put a huge target on its back

    OpenAI is at the top of the generative AI world, and that's painted quite a large target on its back.

  • Qualcomm CEO touts company's generative AI opportunity during annual shareholder meeting

    Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon took the stage during the company's annual

  • Video game industry layoffs are a collision of trends

    The gaming industry is facing mass layoffs.

  • Apple’s generative AI plans are suddenly a lot more important to its future

    After killing its car project, Apple's generative AI efforts are suddenly much more important for its future.

  • Microsoft adds new Copilot features to Windows 11 as AI hype remains high

    Microsoft on Thursday announced a host of new Windows 11 AI features that will make it easier to navigate your PC.

  • Microsoft debuts AI-powered Copilot for Finance as it continues company-wide AI push

    Microsoft on Thursday debuted its Copilot for Finance, continuing the company's effort to add generative AI capabilities to its various software offerings.

  • Generative AI is having a throw-everything-at-the-wall moment

    The tech industry is throwing generative AI at everything it can think of to see what sticks in the hopes of developing the next big thing.

  • Salesforce history: Beyond the Ticker

    Over the past quarter of a century, Salesforce (CRM) has become one of the global leaders in the cloud-based software industry. In 2022 alone, Salesforce's revenue topped $31 billion, a more than 18% year-over-year increase. But what led to Salesforce's growth in the cloud computing industry? Beyond the Ticker takes a closer look at some of the company's biggest moments. 1999 Salesforce was founded by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff, Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff, and Frank Dominguez, specializing in software as a service (SaaS). 2000 The dot com bubble burst, and the company was forced to lay off 20% of its employees. On February 7, 2000, Salesforce.com officially launched an event themed around “The End of Software” at San Francisco’s Regency Theater featuring The B-52s. 2003 Salesforce continued to grow, with its revenue skyrocketing to over $100 million by December 2003. 2004 In June 2004, the company went public via initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange at $11 per share. 2009 Salesforce had an annual revenue of just over $1 billion. That same year, Salesforce launched Service Cloud for customer service and support automation. 2014 Salesforce debuted Trailhead, a free online learning platform empowering anyone — regardless of education level — to develop the skills needed to land top tech jobs. 2016 The company launched Einstein, the first comprehensive artificial intelligence (AI) technology for customer relationship management (CRM), making AI accessible to every company and business user. 2020 Salesforce was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI), replacing energy giant ExxonMobil (XOM). 2021 Salesforce completed the acquisition of Slack for $27.7 billion, its largest acquisition to date. 2023 The company introduced the next generation of Einstein AI, Einstein GPT, the world’s first generative AI for CRM. From its humble beginnings to a market cap of over $276 billion, Salesforce now stands as one of the world's most distinguished software companies. From tech giants to retail titans, Beyond the Ticker is a historical series that takes a deep dive into some of Wall Street's trending companies and how they transformed into the financial icons they are today. Check out more of our Beyond the Ticker series, and be sure to tune in to Yahoo Finance. Editor's note: This video was produced by Zach Faulds.

  • Nvidia says future growth will come from 'sovereign AI'

    Nvidia is banking on sovereign AI as a means of helping to continue its incredible growth amid the AI boom.