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In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Microsoft logo seen at their building in Redmond, Washington. Toby Scott | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images People should worry more about “A.I. being used by bad actors” than they should about AI productivity outpacing human productivity, Microsoft chief economist Michael Schwarz said

Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., conduct a news conference in Capitol. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images A bipartisan pair of senators reintroduced the Kids Online Safety Act on Tuesday with updates that aimed to address concerns that the bill could inadvertently cause more harm to the young internet

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple AirTag Todd Haselton | CNBC Apple and Google said on Tuesday that they were working together to prevent lost item trackers like Apple’s AirTag from being used to track people without their permission. The companies have worked together on an update to the Bluetooth

In this article UBER Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi speaks at a product launch event in San Francisco, California on September 26, 2019. Philip Pacheco | AFP via Getty Images Shares of Uber popped 9% in premarket trading Tuesday after the company reported first-quarter results that beat analysts’ expectations for revenue.

DCG, Luno’s parent company, has been grappling with the ongoing fallout from last year’s plunge in token prices and the collapse of FTX. Rafael Henrique | Sopa Images | Lightrocket via Getty Images Vijay Ayyar, a senior executive at cryptocurrency exchange Luno and one of its earliest employees, is leaving the company. Ayyar, who is

Chung Sung-jun | Getty Images News | Getty Images Samsung is restricting the use of so-called generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT for employees after the company discovered such services were being misused. The South Korean technology giant confirmed to CNBC Tuesday that it is temporarily restricting the use of generative AI through the

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Visitors check a Tesla Model 3 car next to a Model Y displayed at a showroom of the U.S. electric vehicle (EV) maker in Beijing, China February 4, 2023. Florence Lo | Reuters Tesla hiked the price of several cars in key markets, including the

In this article ETH= BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Bitcoin is under pressure as the Federal Reserve has indicated that rates could go higher than expected and after a major crypto-focused lender, Silvergate Capital, collapsed. Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Cryptocurrencies took a dip on Monday to start the week and

Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Erin Scott | Reuters An advocacy group backed by Facebook received a $34 million donation from an anonymous donor as it waged a battle against antitrust legislation that would have more tightly regulated the tech industry. A person who works with the group, American Edge Project, told CNBC that

In this article AAPL AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Gina Raimondo, US secretary of commerce, speaks at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Washington, DC, on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Standing against conservative critiques of the Biden administration’s conditions on computer chip-manufacturing funding, the tech

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Getty Images New York City Mayor Eric Adams and his police department have asked residents to help fight vehicle theft in the city by placing Apple AirTags in their cars. AirTags are small, circular tracking devices that allow users to monitor the location of their

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, right, arrives on stage as Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai exits during the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco on April 9, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images When Google hired Oracle’s Thomas Kurian four years ago to run its cloud business, the internet search company had a

In this article AMZN MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google launched Bard AI, it’s own chatbot to rival Microsoft and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Tech investors are eager to hear how much industry leaders are bolstering profitability now that they’re in cost-cutting mode. But there’s one area where

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on “worldwide threats,” on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 8, 2023. Mary F. Calvert | Reuters U.S. cyber intelligence staff is vastly outnumbered by Chinese hackers, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray told Congress as he pleaded for more money

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images A former Apple employee who swindled the company out of more than $17 million with a scheme that double-billed for parts was sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $19 million in restitution to

In this article 6758.T-JP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sony aims to sell 18 million PlayStation 5 consoles in its financial year ending in March 2023. Thiago Prudencio | Lightrocket | Getty Images Sony posted record annual operating revenue on Friday, helped by its chip division and sales of its flagship PlayStation 5 gaming

In this article ATVI MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Microsoft has invested huge amounts of capital and time into making cloud gaming a core part of its gaming offering. Peter Summers | Getty Images When Microsoft announced its offer to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, it marked one of the biggest acquisitions

China’s largest chipmaker SMIC won’t be able to produce cutting-edge chips competitively if it continues to be cut off from advanced equipment, analysts told CNBC. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images China’s largest chipmaker SMIC won’t be able to produce cutting-edge chips competitively if it continues to be cut off from advanced equipment,

In this article INTC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, with U.S. President Joe Biden (not pictured), announces the tech firm’s plan to build a $20 billion plant in Ohio, from the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington, January 21, 2022. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Intel reported

In this article COIN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Brian Armstrong, co-founder and chief executive officer of Coinbase Inc., speaks during the Singapore Fintech Festival, in Singapore, on Friday, Nov. 4, 2022.  Bryan van der Beek | Bloomberg | Getty Images Crypto exchange Coinbase offered a fiery response on Thursday to last month’s Wells