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C.E.O. of Tesla, Chief Engineer of SpaceX and C.T.O. of X Elon Musk takes the stage during the New York Times annual DealBook summit on November 29, 2023 in New York City.  Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Elon Musk has reinstated the account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on X, formerly Twitter, reneging on

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google is facing scrutiny over its demonstration video for its newly launched artificial intelligence model, Gemini. On Wednesday, just weeks before the year’s end, Google launched what it considers its largest and most capable AI model Gemini and presented a demonstrative video to media outlets

In this article GOOG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Getty Images A team at Google has proposed using AI technology to create a “bird’s-eye” view of users’ lives using mobile phone data such as photographs and searches. Dubbed “Project Ellmann,” after biographer and literary critic Richard David Ellmann, the idea would be to use

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images The U.K.’s competition watchdog has opened an initial review into Microsoft’s mammoth investment into ChatGPT-creator OpenAI, making it the first major regulator to flag potential competition concerns over the tech giant’s relationship with one of the most important

C.E.O. of Tesla, Chief Engineer of SpaceX and C.T.O. of X Elon Musk takes the stage during the New York Times annual DealBook summit on November 29, 2023 in New York City.  Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Elon Musk said Thursday that he’d consider letting Alex Jones back onto X, nearly a year after

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT C.E.O. of Tesla, Chief Engineer of SpaceX and C.T.O. of X Elon Musk takes the stage during the New York Times annual DealBook summit on November 29, 2023 in New York City.  Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk is asking the

In this article AMZN PYPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Venmo logo displayed on a smartphone. Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images Amazon notified users late Wednesday it will soon stop accepting Venmo as a payment method. The company said it will no longer let users pay using Venmo

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Shares of Google popped more than 5% Thursday, a day after the company announced its latest artificial intelligence model called Gemini that will compete with products from OpenAI, Microsoft and Meta. The stock is on pace for its best day since Aug. 29. Wells Fargo’s

In this article IBM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT IBM CEO Arvind Krishna speaks at a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 17, 2023. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images IBM is angling hard for an AI comeback story, and CEO Arvind Krishna is counting on a

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Microsoft CEO Brad Smith participates in a meeting at The Westin Palace Hotel, on 20 May, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. Cezaro De Luca | Europa Press | Getty Images Microsoft President Brad Smith met with China’s Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao on Wednesday to discuss

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 Google is launching what it considers

In this article META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Facebook co-founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sits in his seat inside a bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum for all U.S. senators hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 13, 2023. Leah Millis | Reuters Facebook

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple CEO Tim Cook greets customers purchasing Apple’s new iPhone 15 during a launch event at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store in New York City on Sept. 22, 2023. Alexi Rosenfeld | Getty Images Apple’s market cap closed about $3 trillion for the first time

Elon Musk 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 X.AI, an artificial intelligence startup founded by Elon Musk, has filed with the SEC to raise up to $1 billion in an equity offering. The

Jaap Arriens | NurPhoto | Getty Images Bitcoin is building on its upward momentum, with the flagship cryptocurrency topping $43,000 for the first time since April 2022 on Tuesday. The price of bitcoin rose nearly 4% to $43,478.00, according to Coin Metrics, extending gains from the previous day, as the drumbeat for a spot bitcoin

In this article ABNB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Dave Stephenson, who will become Airbnb CFO in Jan. 2019. Airbnb CFO Dave Stephenson, who helped guide the company through Covid-19 tumult and an initial public offering, will transition into a newly created chief business officer role, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said in a Tuesday

YouTuber Trevor Daniel Jacob appears ready to jump from his plane, which later crashed. TrevorJacob via YouTube A California man was sentenced to six months in federal prison on Monday for allegedly lying to federal authorities when they were investigating an airplane he intentionally crashed to make a YouTube video. The man, former Olympic snowboarder

In this article 9866-HK NIO Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Nio’s ET5 stands on display at the Central China International Auto Show on May 25, 2023, in Wuhan, China. Getty Images | Getty Images News | Getty Images Nio on Tuesday reported narrowing losses in the third quarter, but gave a revenue forecast below

In this article UBER Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Uber CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi speaks during the “Intentional Equity in Sustainability” conversation at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Week in San Francisco, California, on November 15, 2023. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Shares of Uber rose 4% Monday morning after the S&P

Daniel Ek, CEO of Swedish music streaming service Spotify. Toru Yamanaka | AFP | Getty Images Music streaming service Spotify is laying off 17% of its workforce, in a dramatic move aimed at reducing its costs and adjusting for a slowdown in growth, CEO Daniel Ek said Monday. In an email sent out to staff,