From left: Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank; Larry Ellison, executive chairman of Oracle; and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI listen to President Trump speak at the White House on Jan. 21 ...

President Donald Trump announced an A.I. initiative called Stargate. During a press conference at the White House attended by SoftBank (SFTBF) CEO Masayoshi Son and Oracle founder Larry Ellison, the returning President told reporters the initiative will invest $500 billion—equivalent to almost 2 percent of the annual U.

Yes, that's the name of a 1994 Roland Emmerich movie. It's now a big infrastructure project to help power tech giants' foray into AI.

A tech selloff led by Chinese AI developer DeepSeek erased $108 billion from the wealth of the world’s richest, with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang losing $20.1 billion. Despite losses, some like Zuckerberg and Bezos saw their fortunes rise significantly amid the AI boom.

The $500 billion Stargate project will be critical to "maintain American leadership in AI," one of the partners said in a statement.

The world’s 500 richest people, led by Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang, lost a combined $US108 billion ($172 billion) on Monday as a tech-led selloff tied to Chinese AI developer DeepSeek sent major indices plunging.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks at CES 2025 ... Rivaling Huang’s drop Monday was a $29.4 billion loss for Oracle chairman Larry Ellison, as Oracle stock tanked 15% — Ellison fell from third ...

News from China upset U.S. markets Monday and disrupted the frenzy that had built up around artificial intelligence.

Tech billionaires lost around $100 billion as Chinese AI disruptor DeepSeek challenges Silicon Valley with a low-cost chatbot.

Five hundred of the world’s richest people collectively lost $108 billion after the Chinese-headquartered artificial intelligence company DeepSeek upended the U.S. stock market Monday, Bloomberg reported — and several of the biggest losses were among some of the Bay Area’s biggest figures in tech .