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You probably remember mobile operators raving about the promise of 5G several years ago. Now, they’re getting excited about a new upgrade: 5G Advanced. Angel Garcia | Bloomberg | Getty Images BARCELONA, Spain — Telecom operators haven’t yet finished rolling out 5G wireless mobile networks. And yet bosses of major carriers are already talking about

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta on Dec. 11, 2023. Dustin Chambers | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI executives disputed claims Elon Musk laid out in a lawsuit on Thursday, and said the Tesla CEO is upset that he’s no longer part of the artificial intelligence startup.

Dr. Marc Harrison, who’s now CEO of HATCo, speaking at the Healthy Returns conference in New York City on May 21, 2019. Astrid Stawiarz | CNBC Dr. Marc Harrison is a different kind of venture capitalist. He’s not looking for the next Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk. He’s not hanging out at startup demo days.

Ute Grabowsky | Photothek | Getty Images Computer science is not a new major at top schools, but with AI jobs in high-demand, there’s a growing list of colleges and universities offering a four-year “AI” degree specifically. These programs generally move beyond the foundations of computer science to home in on topics such as machine

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Passengers ride in an electric Waymo full self-driving technology in Santa Monica Allen J. Schaben | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Alphabet’s Waymo robotaxi unit won approval from the California Public Utilities Commission to expand service to parts of Los Angeles and the Bay

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. Denis Balibouse | Reuters Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, among others, alleging they abandoned the company’s founding mission to develop artificial intelligence “for the benefit of humanity broadly.”

Signage at a Byju’s Tuition Center, operated by Think & Learn Pvt., in Mumbai, India, on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. A unit of Byju’s, once one of India’s hottest tech startups, was put into bankruptcy in the US by a court-appointed agent who took over the shell company after it defaulted on $1.2 billion in

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple CEO Tim Cook attends the Wonderlust event at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, on Sept. 12, 2023. Loren Elliott | Reuters Apple on Thursday said it is expanding its self-service repair program to include its MacBook Pro and iMac models powered by the

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tesla Roadster Courtesy: Tesla Six years ago, Elon Musk hyped a next-generation Roadster, the name of Tesla’s debut car from 2008. A refreshed version was never produced, but Musk is once again promising a new Roadster is on the way. “Tonight, we radically increased the

Chesnot | Getty Images Bitcoin continued its surge on Wednesday, shooting above $60,000 for the first time since November 2021. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 6% at $60,688.00, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier, it rose as high as $60,734.42. It’s now sitting just below its all-time high of $68,982.20. Stock

Honor already has a number of smartphones on the market that fold like a book, such as the Magic V2 that was launched in July 2023 shown here. The Chinese tech company is now preparing to launch a vertical-folding style smartphone, its CEO George Zhao told CNBC at the Mobile World Congress. Honor BARCELONA —

The homebuilding industry is in a race to make its homes environmentally cleaner and more energy efficient. Real estate as a whole is a massive carbon offender. Both the construction and operation of buildings account for 40% of global carbon emissions. Solar panels and energy-efficient appliances help cut emissions, but more needs to be done

Motorola’s “adapative display concept” smartphone can wrap around a user’s wrist. The phone can generative a background to match what a user is wearing.  Arjun Kharpal | CNBC BARCELONA, Spain — Motorola thinks we may be wearing our phones on our wrist in future. The company, which is owned by Chinese tech giant Lenovo, showed

The Samsung Galaxy Ring has various sensors to track things like heart rate. Samsung BARCELONA — Samsung’s Galaxy Ring, its latest wearable, is launching with health-tracking features including heart rate and sleep monitoring while also giving users a score of their readiness for the day, a top executive told CNBC. In a wide-ranging interview, Hon

Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty Images Social media company Reddit filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday after a yearslong run-up. The company plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “RDDT.” Reddit said it had $804 million in annual sales for 2023, up

Voahangy Rasetarinera speaks on San Jose bakery loss of thousands of dollars after Tesla cancels large order. Kris Sanchez | NBC Bay Area A catering contract to celebrate Black Heritage Month turned into a tough lesson for a Black-owned bakery in the South Bay earlier this month. What started as a $16,000 deal ended up

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will be in a position to make millions after Reddit goes public, thanks to a series of bets on the online discussion board company that go back

A attendee walks past a banner with a Grab logo before a bell-ringing ceremony as Grab begins trading on the Nasdaq, in Singapore, on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. Ore Huiying | Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Grab posted its first-ever profitable quarter, raking in $11 million in profit, the Southeast Asian ride-hailing giant said

In this article NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jensen Huang speaks onstage during The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2023 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on November 29, 2023 in New York City. Slaven Vlasic | Getty Images Nvidia briefly surpassed $2 trillion in market cap during intraday trading Friday following the company’s

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks in conversation with Emily Chang during the APEC CEO Summit at Moscone West on November 16, 2023 in San Francisco, California. The APEC summit is being held in San Francisco and runs through November 17. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Munich, GERMANY — Rapid developments in

In this article SQ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc. and Square Inc., listens during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, on Friday, June 4, 2021. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images Block stock rose as much as 14% in extended trading

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Betul Abali | Anadolu | Getty Images Google on Thursday announced it is pausing its Gemini artificial intelligence image generation feature after saying it offers “inaccuracies” in historical pictures. Users on social media had been complaining that the AI tool generates images of historical figures

In this article NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang attends a media roundtable meeting in Singapore December 6, 2023. Edgar Su | Reuters Nvidia is scheduled to announce fiscal fourth-quarter earnings after the bell Wednesday in a highly anticipated report that will give Wall Street a sense of how long

Suriyapong Thongsawang | Moment | Getty Images Doctors in the U.S. are struggling to contend with burnout, staffing shortages and overwhelming administrative workloads, but many are optimistic that artificial intelligence could help to ease these problems, a new survey found.  More than 90% of physicians report feeling burned out on a “regular basis,” according to

In this article ADBE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT David Wadhwani, senior vice president of digital media for Adobe, speaks during the launch of Adobe Creative Cloud and CS6 in San Francisco on April 23, 2012. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Adobe on Tuesday launched an artificial intelligence assistant in its

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images A patient implanted with Neuralink’s brain technology can now control a computer mouse just by thinking, the company’s founder Elon Musk said. “(The) patient seems to have made a full recovery with no ill effects that we are aware of and is able to control the mouse, move

In this article BABA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The logo of the Alibaba office building is seen in the Huangpu District in Shanghai, June 16, 2023. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group is betting on its overseas businesses while domestic consumption growth remains sluggish. One bright spot in Alibaba’s latest

A screen displays the company logo for Toast Inc. during the company’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., September 22, 2021.  Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Toast, maker of restaurant management software, said on Thursday it will let go of 550 employees, about 10% of its workforce. The company

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jeff Bezos looks on from the sidlines before kickoff between the Kansas City Chiefs and Los Angeles Chargers at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on September 15, 2022 in Kansas City, Missouri. The Amazon founder and chairman is one of the world’s richest men. Cooper

In this photo illustration, the Coinbase logo is seen displayed on a mobile phone screen.  Idrees Abbas | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase soared 12% Friday at 10:05 London time in U.S. premarket trading after the company reported its first profit in two years. Coinbase, the largest U.S.