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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 last week removed Aleksander Madry, one of OpenAI’s top safety executives, from his role and reassigned him to a job focused on AI reasoning, sources familiar with

In this article LYFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An empty Lyft pickup area is shown as ride-share drivers hold a rally as part of a statewide day of action to demand that ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft follow California law and grant drivers “basic employee rights,” in Los Angeles on Aug. 20, 2020.

A Waymo rider-only robotaxi is seen during a test ride in San Francisco on Dec. 9, 2022. Paresh Dave | Reuters Alphabet is again investing in its self-driving car unit Waymo — this time with $5 billion. “This new round of funding will enable Waymo to continue to build the world’s leading autonomous driving company,”

Last week, the world faced what was likely the biggest IT failure in history. When some people around the world logged onto their laptops on Friday, they were greeted with a blue error screen on their Microsoft Windows operating system. But this was not a Microsoft issue. It was all to do with a U.S.

DeepL CEO Jaroslaw “Jarek” Kutylowski. DeepL German artificial intelligence translation startup DeepL on Wednesday launched traditional Chinese as a language option as it looks to expand its presence in Asia. DeepL, one of Europe’s high-profile AI companies valued at $2 billion, sells translation software aimed at businesses rather than everyday consumers. Traditional Chinese is a

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X Holdings Corp., speaks at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel,on May 6, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California.  Apu Gomes | Getty Images As Tesla CEO Elon Musk continues to make

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Musk is attending Cannes Lions this week with an aim to reassure ad groups and global brands over the future of X. Marc Piasecki | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted an informal poll on social network X asking whether his publicly traded automaker

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla. Antonio Masiello | Getty Images Tesla shares fell more than 8% in premarket trading in the U.S. after the electric carmaker reported second-quarter earnings that missed expectations amid ongoing pressure in its auto business. The stock pared losses to trade

In this article IBM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM, arrives for the Inaugural AI Insight Forum in Russell Building on Capitol Hill, on Wednesday, September 13, 2023. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images IBM shares rose 5% in extended trading on Wednesday, after the company reported

Representation of cryptocurrency and Gayscale logo displayed on a phone screen. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images For crypto firm Grayscale, it’s deja vu in the ETF market. On Tuesday, the first spot ether exchange-traded funds hit the U.S. The ETFs will invest directly in ether, the cryptocurrency used in the Ethereum network, allowing

Andriy Onufriyenko | Moment | Getty Images With election season underway and artificial intelligence evolving rapidly, AI manipulation in political advertising is becoming an issue of greater concern to the market and economy. A new report from Moody’s on Wednesday warns that generative AI and deepfakes are among the election integrity issues that could present

Next to water, concrete is the most commonly used material on earth. But the traditional way to create its prime ingredient, cement, is not kind to the planet. The global cement production industry accounts for about 8% of carbon emissions annually. It’s usually made by heating limestone, a carbonate rock, using fossil fuel-fired kilns. That’s

In this article HUBS GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan speaks at the company’s Inbound conference in Boston on Sept. 6, 2023. Chance Yeh | HubSpot | Getty Images HubSpot shares plunged 11% on Wednesday after a report said Alphabet isn’t going forward with plans to buy the software company.

The Samsung logo is on display at their pavilion during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on February 28, 2024. (Photo by Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Shares of Samsung Electronics jumped to their highest level since January 2021 after the South Korean tech giant said it expects

In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Thomas Trutschel | Photothek | Getty Images The trustee for Mt. Gox, the Japanese bitcoin exchange that collapsed into bankruptcy a decade ago, on Friday said that the company has begun to make payments in bitcoin and in bitcoin cash to some of its creditors. The announcement

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk attends ‘Exploring the New Frontiers of Innovation: Mark Read in Conversation with Elon Musk’ session during the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity 2024 – Day Three on June 19, 2024 in Cannes, France.  Marc Piasecki | Getty Images Tesla’s stock price rose

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Aidan Gomez was an intern at Google Brain in 2017, when he helped co-author the “Attention Is All You Need” paper that conceptualized the transformer and eventually kicked off the generative artificial intelligence boom. “There’s no one in the field who was around back then

In this article TSLA AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT AI-powered robots are popping up across Silicon Valley. If some industry experts are right, they could help solve a global labor shortage. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia have plowed billions of dollars into what are known as “humanoid” robots. These machines typically

Bitcoin has also been under selling pressure from the German government as well as collapsed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images For weeks now, Germany’s government has been selling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin — and it’s been a key factor behind the cryptocurrency’s intense selloff. Last