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In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Six years ago, Amazon kicked off a sweepstakes-style contest in search of where to build a second headquarters. The competition drew bids from 238 states, provinces and cities vying to be the next anchor for the nation’s dominant online retailer and second-largest private employer. This

In this article SPOT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The collaborative efforts between Spotify and Harry and Meghan has resulted in just one, 12-episode series of the podcast “Archetypes.” Chris Jackson | Chris Jackson Collection | Getty Images Spotify executive Bill Simmons described Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, as “grifters” after

French President Emmanuel Macron attended the country’s premier technology event Viva Tech. Macron told CNBC France will “invest like crazy” into A.I. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty Images PARIS — France is making a major push to position itself as Europe’s hub for artificial intelligence, throwing its weight behind the fast-growing and much-hyped technology.

In this article PLTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020. On Sunday, the Ohio Department of Health reported a total of 298,096 cases in Ohio since the pandemic began, leading to 5,722 deaths and 22,265 hospitalizations. Photographer: Dustin Franz/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon’s head of worldwide consumer Jeff Wilke unveiled its latest delivery drone at the re:MARS conference in Las Vegas on June 5, 2019. Amazon Amazon doesn’t plan to host its re:MARS conference on cutting-edge technologies like robotics and space this year, the company confirmed on

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, Elon Musk attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre on June 16, 2023 in Paris, France.  Chesnot | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk

Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty Images At midnight on Tuesday, the moderators of the Reddit community r/Gaming decided to go dark. Dac Croach, who goes by username Dacvak, and the subreddit’s other leaders hit the private button, initiating a 48-hour shutdown for the group’s more than 37 million members, along with anyone else who

In this article IRBT AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A vacuuming Roomba model robot is displayed at iRobot headquarters in Bedford, Massachusetts Scott Eells | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon‘s planned $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot, the maker of Roomba vacuums, has been greenlit by Britain’s competition watchdog. The Competition and Markets Authority

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, speaks with CNBC on May 16th, 2023. David A. Grogan | CNBC Twitter suspended the accounts of Plainsite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, a prolific Tesla and Elon Musk critic, on Tuesday afternoon. Plainsite is an online database that makes state and federal court filings and other public records available

Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images Twitter is a more dangerous social platform for LGBTQ users now than it was a year ago, according to a new survey from LGBTQ+ rights organization GLAAD. The group’s third annual Social Media Safety Index (SMSI) report finds a pullback and inconsistent enforcement of company policies addressing anti-LGBTQ online

Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, speaks at the Viva Tech fair in Paris, France, on Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Macron told CNBC that he thinks global regulation is needed for artificial intelligence. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty Images PARIS — France’s top politicians told CNBC they see the beginnings of global regulation on artificial intelligence

EU Commissioner for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age – Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager is talking to media during a virtual press briefing in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter on November 26, 2020, in Brussels, Belgium. Thierry Monasse | Getty Images The European Union on Wednesday charged Google with breaching antitrust rules

In this article AMD NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Lisa Su displays an ADM Instinct M1300 chip as she delivers a keynote address at CES 2023 at The Venetian Las Vegas on January 04, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. David Becker | Getty Images AMD said on Tuesday its most-advanced GPU for artificial

Sam Altman speaks at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2023. Jack Guez | Afp | Getty Images The world is clamoring for artificial intelligence and the market will deliver, said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday on the Singapore stop of his world tour. “We’ve got sophisticated enough languages and also

The GPT-4 logo is seen in this photo illustration on 13 March, 2023 in Warsaw, Poland.  Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Major banks and fintech companies claim to be piling into generative artificial intelligence as the hype surrounding the buzzy technology shows no signs of fizzling out — but there are

In this article 9866-HK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Nio co-founder William Li poses inside a Nio EC7 at the Shanghai auto show on April 19, 2023. Hector Retamal | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese electric car brand Nio said Monday it is cutting prices for its cars by the equivalent of

Darby Dunn, the Vice President of operations at Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Photo courtesy Commonwealth Fusion Systems From March 2009 to December 2018, Darby Dunn held a handful of engineering and production roles at SpaceX. “In one role in particular, my unofficial title was ‘Mother of Dragons,'” Dunn told CNBC in an interview in Devens, Massachusetts.

Fintech executives descend on Amsterdam for the annual Money2020 conference. MacKenzie Sigalos AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — At last year’s Money 20/20 — Europe’s marquee event for the financial technology industry — investors and industry insiders were abuzz with talk about embedded finance, open banking, and banking-as-a-service. As nebulous as these terms may be, they reflected a

In this article AAPL DGX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple Vision Pro Source: Apple Apple‘s new Vision Pro headset has sparked a resurgence of interest in head-worn computers that immerse users in a virtual world. Engineers have been dreaming about virtual reality since 1968 when a professor at the University of Utah built

Gary Gensler, Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, takes his seat before the start of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Oversight of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images SEC Chair Gary Gensler stepped up