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In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT John Hennessy Adam Jeffery | CNBC Google‘s Bard announcement last week was meant to show that the company has similar technology as the popular ChatGPT chatbot, even though it still has ways to go before becoming product-ready, Alphabet Chairman John Hennessy said Monday. “I think

In this article PDD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An ad spot during the Super Bowl costs millions of dollars. Temu, the U.S. shopping site launched by China’s PDD Holdings Inc., ran a 30-second ad during the game titled “Shop Like A Billionaire,” highlighting its ambitions to crack the international e-commerce market. Jevone Moore

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his security detail depart the company’s local office in Washington, January 27, 2023. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company Neuralink is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Transportation for allegedly packaging and transporting contaminated hardware in an unsafe manner, a DOT spokesperson confirmed to CNBC.  In

In this article NOV.N-CH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Novartis manufacturing associate checking punches at compressing machine. Source: Novartis In 2010, a volcano erupted in Iceland. For Dr. Oliver Sartor, a cancer research professor at the Tulane University School of Medicine, it was a problem.  Ash from the eruption disrupted flights across Europe —

In this article GS GSBD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Last year’s havoc in the cryptocurrencies space has allowed for a “flight to quality” among crypto investors, Mathew McDermott, Goldman Sachs’ global head of digital assets, said on CNBC’s “Crypto World” on Friday. “We do have a crypto trading desk at the firm,” he

In this article MSFT GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google employees are criticizing leadership, most notably CEO Sundar Pichai, for the way the company handled the announcement this week of its ChatGPT competitor called Bard. Staffers took to the popular internal forum Memegen to express their thoughts on the Bard announcement, referring to

In this article AMZN META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., left, arrives at federal court in San Jose, California, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022.  David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images For Matthew Hassett’s smart alarm clock company Loftie, the 2022 holiday shopping

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT SMIC’s 14nm chip yield has reached industry production level. Future Publishing | Getty Images China’s biggest chipmaker SMIC posted record revenue in 2022, despite ongoing U.S. sanctions, but warned of a more difficult year ahead given a slump in the semiconductor industry. SMIC said on

Dan Schulman, CEO of Paypal, attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, July 10, 2019. Gerard Miller | CNBC PayPal said on Thursday that CEO Dan Schulman will retire and leave the online payments company at the end of 2023. Schulman, who became PayPal CEO after the split

In this article AFRM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Affirm Holdings Inc. website home screen on a laptop computer in an arranged photograph taken in Little Falls, New Jersey. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Affirm announced it’s cutting 19% of its workforce Wednesday. The news came as it reported second quarter earnings

In this article GOOGL GOOG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during the Google I/O keynote session at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California on May 7, 2019. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Shares of Google’s parent Alphabet closed down more than 7% on Wednesday after the company

Ebay on Tuesday announced plans to cut 500 jobs, or about 4% of its workforce, according to a filing with the SEC. Shares of eBay were up slightly in extended trading Tuesday. In a memo to employees, CEO Jamie Iannone said the company decided to make cuts after examining the global macroeconomic environment over the

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on Tuesday that search powered by artificial intelligence is the biggest thing to happen to his company in the nine years he’s been at the helm. “I have not seen something like this since I would say 2007-2008, when the

In this article GOOGL GOOG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees Monday the company is going to need all hands on deck to test Bard, its new ChatGPT rival. He also said Google will soon be enlisting help from partners to test an application programming interface, or API, that

In this article GOOG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai during press conference at the Chancellery in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022. Mateusz Wlodarczyk | Nurphoto | Getty Images Google on Monday announced an artificial intelligence chatbot technology called Bard that the company will begin rolling out in

Elon Musk Twitter account displayed on a phone screen and Twitter logo displayed on a screen in the background are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on November 22, 2022. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Twitter CEO Elon Musk said Sunday that the last few months have been “extremely tough,”

The exterior of “The Wormhole” factory. Relativity Space LONG BEACH, California – It was a few days into the new year yet Relativity Space’s factory was anything but quiet, a din of activity with massive 3D printers humming and the clanging of construction ringing out. Now about eight years on from its founding, Relativity continues

In this article AMZN MSFT GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco on June 8, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images As growth in traditional tech equipment and software slowed to a trickle in recent years, cloud computing gobbled

In this article AMD AMZN META AAPL GOOGL .IXIC INTC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tech stocks on display at the Nasdaq. Peter Kramer | CNBC The Nasdaq just wrapped up its fifth straight week of gains, jumping 3.3% over the last five days. It’s the longest weekly winning streak for the tech-laden index

In this article GOOG AAPL AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Andrew Ross Sorkin speaks with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy during the New York Times DealBook Summit in the Appel Room at the Jazz At Lincoln Center on November 30, 2022 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Shares of Amazon