J Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images Dear Baron International Growth Fund Shareholder: Baron International Growth Fund® (the Fund) gained 16.91% (Institutional Shares) during the second quarter of 2025, while its primary benchmark, the MSCI ACWI ex USA Index (the Benchmark), appreciated 12.03%. The MSCI ACWI ex USA IMI Growth Index (the Proxy Benchmark) gained 14.41% for the quarter. The Fund solidly outperformed both the Benchmark and the Proxy Benchmark during a strong quarter for global equities ...

An Amazon vice president helping to oversee one of the company's highest profile projects, artificial general intelligence, is stepping down on Friday, the online retailer confirmed after a Reuters inquiry. ...

This technology giant still has major growth opportunities.Imagine it's the week of Aug. 19, 2004. Swimmer Michael Phelps won the 200- and 400-meter individual medley double at the Olympic Games in Athens. Terror Squad's "Lean Back" topped the U.S. music charts. And a young company named Google, which would later create a parent company named Alphabet (GOOG -0.53%) (GOOGL -0.55%), conducted its initial public offering (IPO). If you had invested $10,200 on the day Google first traded publicly and never sold ...

Nvidia is preparing one of the largest investments in the history of artificial intelligence, pledging up to $100 billion in funding for OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. The deal comes hot on the heels of Nvidia pledging a $5 billion investment into Intel, its one-time rival and former American semiconductor champion. The companies jointly announced they had signed a letter of intent for a strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure ...

OpenAI and NVIDIA OpenAI and NVIDIA today announced a letter of intent for a landmark strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure to train and run its next generation of models on the path to deploying superintelligence. News Strategic partnership enables OpenAI to build and deploy at least 10 gigawatts of AI data centers with NVIDIA systems representing millions of GPUs for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure.To support ...

(Bloomberg) — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA) is trying to attract established brand names on Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) to its global e-commerce site AliExpress, stepping up efforts to expand its footprint on the Seattle-based firm’s home turf. Most Read from Bloomberg AliExpress, Alibaba’s online retail portal for markets outside China, is trying to add more major brands by promising lower shipping fees and offering to take a lower cut of sales than Amazon does, according to people familiar with the ma ...

Artificial intelligence has prompted a supercharged tech boom, with valuations of the world's biggest companies soaring on the Nasdaq amid talk about a new era of human-like algorithms.Here in Australia, a microcosm of Silicon Valley is happening, with 30,000 people now working in AI and many start-ups tapping into billions of dollars of venture capital.One local start-up that just got $2.5 million in seed funding is Apate.The company, originally founded out of Macquarie University, has clients including th ...

TEAM Anywhere/SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Atlassian Corporation (NASDAQ: TEAM), a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software, today announced it is appointing Jason Warner to its Board of Directors, effective October 1, 2025. Jason is the co-founder and co-Chief Executive Officer of poolside, a frontier AI lab building its own foundation models to achieve artificial general intelligence. "Jason has worked at the intersection of tech, leadership and growth in a way that. ...

Microsoft and OpenAI are getting close to an agreement on the future of their partnership.By completing this form, you agree to receive marketing communications from PYMNTS and to the sharing of your information with our sponsor, if applicable, in accordance with our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions .Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required.The companies said in a joint statement released Thursday (Sept. 11): “Micro ...

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