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In this article BABA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Alibaba office building is seen in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, Aug 28, 2024.  CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images Alibaba on Thursday released more than 100 open-source artificial intelligence models and boosted the capabilities of its proprietary technology as it looks to ramp

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Veo in Dream Screen YouTube YouTube on Wednesday announced artificial-intelligence features for creators on its Shorts platform that tap into Google‘s DeepMind video-generation model. The features, known as Veo, will allow creators to add AI-generated backgrounds to their videos as well as use written prompts

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Google logo displays on a smartphone screen and the European flag on a computer screen. Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images The European Union’s second-highest court on Wednesday said a 1.5 billion euro ($1.7 billion) fine imposed on Google by regulators should be

In this article BLK MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the company’s Build developer conference in Seattle on May 21, 2024. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft and BlackRock are part of a group of companies collaborating to pull together up to $100 billion to develop

In this article THG-GB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT THG, which was previously known as The Hut Group, is an e-commerce business based out of the U.K. Pavlo Gonchar | Sopa Images | Lightrocket via Getty Images British e-commerce firm THG said Tuesday that it is looking to spin off its technology platform, Ingenuity,

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the Microsoft Build conference at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on May 21, 2024. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images OpenAI on Monday said its Safety and Security Committee, which the company introduced in May as it dealt with controversy over security processes, will become an independent board

Tesla Semi Courtesy: Tesla A single-vehicle collision last month involving a Tesla Semi electric truck took 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish and required aircraft to dump fire retardant overhead, according to a preliminary report on Friday from the National Transportation Safety Board. The crash, which occurred on California’s Interstate 80 west of Lake Tahoe,

Andy Ginther, mayor of Columbus, Ohio, pictured at a White House event in 2023, was not giving the public the full picture after a recent ransomware attack, according to a dark web researcher who investigated, and has since been sued by the city. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ransomware has long been plaguing American

A bitcoin sign is seen in the main hall during the Bitcoin 2024 conference at Music City Center July 26, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. Jon Cherry | Getty Images It was a week of extremes for bitcoin enthusiasts. On the plus side, the cryptocurrency rose 12% in the past seven days and the network hash

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT OpenAI stormed onto the scene with ChatGPT and upended the tech world in less than two years. But over the next few months, the artificial intelligence darling will face some of its biggest tests yet. A highly anticipated partnership with Apple will supercharge its reach,

Bitcoin is rising above $64,000, and MicroStrategy shares are soaring by 40% in three days in Suqian, Jiangsu Province, China, on February 29, 2024.  CFOTO | Nurphoto | Getty Images MicroStrategy shares jumped more than 8% on Friday after founder Michael Saylor said the company purchased another $1.1 billion worth of bitcoin. The stock jumped

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, July 24, 2024.  Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images Brazil’s supreme court announced Friday that it ordered banks to transfer funds from Starlink and X accounts to pay fines the court levied against Elon Musk’s social

As the riots raged in the U.K., Elon Musk began making incendiary comments about the situation, including the statement: “Civil war is inevitable.” Musk is the owner of X, the social media platform formerly known as X. Aytug Can Sencar | Anadolu | Getty Images LONDON — The U.K. government has had “constructive” talks with

In this article ORCL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Oracle Corp. CEO Safra Catz walks on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as Oracle rang the opening bell in celebration of its 10th anniversary of listing on the exchange in New York on July 12, 2023. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Oracle

Dutch digital bank Bunq is plotting re-entry into the U.K. to tap into a “large and underserved” market of some 2.8 million British “digital nomads.” Pavlo Gonchar | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Dutch challenger bank Bunq told CNBC that it plans to grow its global headcount by 70% this year to over

In this article ORCL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Larry Ellison, co-founder, chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle, speaks during the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2017. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Larry Ellison turned 80 last month. It’s been a celebratory year. While fellow legacy

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon’s computing unit AWS is in talks with Italy to invest billions of euros in the expansion of its data center business in the country as part of the tech giant’s effort to boost its cloud offer in Europe, four people familiar with the matter

Stand With Crypto’s bus tour through five battleground states kicked off last week in Phoenix and Las Vegas. Logan Dobson/Stand With Crypto Alliance A big purple bus adorned with “AMERICA ❤️ CRYPTO” started making its way across five swing states last week, on a mission to get out the vote ahead of the presidential election.

Warren East, former CEO of Rolls Royce and Arm, speaking at a tech event in London on June 13, 2022. Luke MacGregor | Bloomberg via Getty Images CAMBRIDGE, England — The U.K. is doing a bad job of commercializing technology businesses globally and needs a mindset shift from the investor community to win on the

In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT oatawa | Getty Bitcoin jumped Monday evening and topped $57,000 after Wall Street’s rebound from its worst week of the year. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 5.6% at $57,4449.00, according to Coin Metrics. Last week, bitcoin tumbled 9% for its

Niklas Zennstrom, CEO of Atomico and co-founder of Skype. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Atomico, an early investor in top European technology firms from Stripe to Klarna, announced Monday the launch of two new funds worth $1.24 billion to back emerging and growth-stage startups in the sector. The launch of Atomico’s

In this article GSRM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Bitcoin automated teller machine (ATM) at a gas station in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bitcoin ATMs are a rapidly growing presence in the United States and, some experts say, a rapidly growing cybercrime menace. ATMs

In this article RBLX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The New York Stock Exchange welcomes executives and guests of Roblox in celebration of its direct listing, March 10, 2021. NYSE Roblox, the popular kid’s gaming platform that generates billions of dollars a year in the virtual world, is getting real. The company said on

Zach Kornfeld and Keith Habersberger of the Try Guys JD RENES The Try Guys, one of YouTube’s most established creator groups, have successfully abandoned their reliance on Google’s algorithms and advertiser revenue by launching a standalone streaming service called 2nd Try. And it’s already starting to pay off. Brand partnerships, sponsored content and advertising have

SAN ANSELMO, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 06: In this photo illustration, the Coinbase logo is displayed on a screen on June 06, 2023 in San Anselmo, California. The Securities And Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase for allegedly violating securities laws by acting as an exchange, a broker and a clearing agency

In this article PLTR DELL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 18, 2023. Arnd Wiegmann | Reuters Dell and Palantir shares both surged about 7% in extended trading on Friday after S&P Global announced that the two technology companies

The entrance to Google’s U.K. offices in London. Olly Curtis | Future Publishing | via Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s competition watchdog on Friday issued a statement of objections over Google’s ad tech practices, which the regulator provisionally found are impacting competition in the U.K. In a statement, the Competition and Markets Authority alleged that

In this article AVGO Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Broadcom CEO Hock Tan. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Broadcom reported fiscal third-quarter results on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations for revenue and earnings. Broadcom shares fell 5% in extended trading. Here is how the chipmaking conglomerate did versus LSEG consensus estimates for the quarter

In this article V Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Visa said it plans to launch a dedicated service for bank transfers, skipping credit cards and the traditional direct debit process. Visa, which alongside Mastercard is one of the world’s largest card networks, said Thursday it plans to launch

Global online shopping platform Temu. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Two U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission members are urging the agency to probe safety practices of “foreign-owned” e-commerce platforms such as Shein and Temu, specifically the alleged sale of “deadly baby and toddler products.” In a letter late Tuesday, CPSC Commissioners Peter Feldman and