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Tesla awards Musk $29 billion in shares with prior pay package in limbo
Tesla CEO Elon Musk was awarded an interim pay package of 96 million shares of the company over the weekend. The shares would be worth about $29 billion. Tesla stock climbed about 2% Monday. The company said in a filing Sunday that the pay package would vest in two years as long as Musk continued […]
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Baidu plans to expand its robotaxis to Europe with Lyft deal
Baidu will bring its driverless taxis to Europe next year via a partnership with U.S. ridehailing firm Lyft, as the Chinese tech giant looks to expand its autonomous vehicles globally. The robotaxis will initially be deployed in the U.K. and Germany from 2026 with the aim to have “thousands” of vehicles across Europe in the […]
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Figma CEO’s path from college dropout and Thiel fellow to tech billionaire
Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, signs the guestbook on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on July 31, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg may be the most famous college-dropout-turned-tech-billionaire. Dylan Field is the latest, after his design startup Figma soared in its stock […]
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Ethereum turns 10: From scrappy experiment to Wall Street’s invisible backbone
CANNES — Ten years ago, Vitalik Buterin and a small band of developers huddled in a drafty Berlin loft strung with dangling lightbulbs, laptops balanced on mismatched chairs and chipped tables. They weren’t corporate titans or venture-backed founders — just idealists working long nights to push a radical idea into reality. From that sparse office, […]
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Crypto wobbles into August as Trump’s new tariffs trigger risk-off sentiment
A screen showing the price of various cryptocurrencies against the US dollar displayed at a Crypto Panda cryptocurrency store in Hong Kong, China, on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. Lam Yik | Bloomberg | Getty Images The crypto market slid Friday after President Donald Trump unveiled his modified “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of countries. The price […]
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Tesla must pay $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says
Tesla vehicles are parked outside of a dealership on July 24, 2025 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images A jury in Miami has determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash, and must compensate the family of the deceased and an injured survivor damages of $329 million. The […]
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Palantir lands $10 billion Army software and data contract
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, attending the annual Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 9, 2025. David A. Grogan | CNBC Palantir has inked a contract with the U.S. Army worth up to $10 billion to meet growing warfare demands over the next decade. As part of the […]
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Nintendo hiking price of original Switch for U.S. customers
A child playing with a Nintendo Switch game console. Julian Stratenschulte | picture alliance via Getty Images Nintendo said Friday it plans to hike the price of its original Switch “family of systems and products” in the U.S. The price increases, which take effect Aug. 3, are being made “based on market conditions,” the Japanese […]
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Google has dropped more than 50 DEI-related organizations from its funding list
Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures to the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, on May 20, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google has purged more than 50 organizations related to diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, from a list of organizations that the tech company provides […]
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