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Texas House introduces bill to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve
Legislation was introduced in the Texas House of Representatives Thursday to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve, which could serve as a proving ground for the U.S. Treasury. The proposed bill would enable the state to start building a strategic bitcoin reserve by accepting taxes, fees and donations in bitcoin that would be held for a minimum of five […]
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Venture capitalists bet on Sublime, a startup bringing AI to email security
Across the world, companies rely on Microsoft and Google to administer email accounts for employees. Keeping all those mailboxes secure, however, is a business opportunity. Proofpoint went public in 2012, and as enterprises migrated to the cloud, many adopted the company’s secure email gateway software as a precautionary measure. But private equity firm Thoma Bravo […]
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OpenAI says ChatGPT suffers outage, company working on fix
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visits “Making Money With Charles Payne” at Fox Business Network Studios in New York on Dec. 4, 2024. Mike Coppola | Getty Images OpenAI said Wednesday it was working to fix an outage after its popular ChatGPT assistant and Sora video generator were left inaccessible. “We have identified the issue and […]
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ServiceTitan prices IPO at $71, above expected range, after slow stretch for tech offerings
Vahe Kuzoyan, left, and Ara Mahdessian, the founders of ServiceTitan. ServiceTitan ServiceTitan, a provider of cloud software to contractors, priced its IPO at $71 a share on Wednesday, above the expected range. The company is set to debut on the Nasdaq on Thursday under ticker symbol “TTAN.” ServiceTitan previously raised its price range to between […]
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Alphabet and Tesla reach fresh records, joining Amazon and Meta and pushing Nasdaq past 20,000
Tech stocks on display at the Nasdaq. Peter Kramer | CNBC Alphabet and Tesla climbed to fresh records on Wednesday, closing at all-time highs alongside Amazon and Meta as the tech megacaps lifted the Nasdaq past 20,000 for the first time. Tech’s seven trillion-dollar companies added roughly $416 billion in market cap for the day. […]
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Facebook, Instagram and other Meta apps go down due to ‘technical issue’
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta’s family of apps including Facebook and Instagram were down on Wednesday, resulting in users being unable to access the services. The widespread outages began around 9:57 a.m. […]
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Tesla shares climb to record, boosted by 64% pop since Trump election victory
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket in Brownsville, Texas, on Nov. 19, 2024. Brandon Bell | Via Reuters Tesla shares jumped to an all-time high on Wednesday, surpassing their prior record reached in 2021, sparked by a post-election rally and Wall […]
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Cryptocurrencies rally, with bitcoin retaking $100,000 following November inflation data
The crypto market jumped Wednesday, following two days of digestion after bitcoin rallied to $100,000 for the first time ever last week. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 4.8% at $101,052.72, according to Coin Metrics. Ether also rose 4% but has not reclaimed its key resistance at $4,000. The CoinDesk 20 […]
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Google releases the first of its Gemini 2.0 AI models
Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Google released the first version of its Gemini 2.0 family of artificial intelligence models on Wednesday. Gemini 2.0 Flash, as the model is called, is available in a chat version for users globally while an experimental multimodal version of the model, with text-to-speech and image generation features, is […]
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Apple launches its ChatGPT integration with Siri
Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Apple released updates for its iPhone, iPad and Mac software on Wednesday that include a long-awaited ChatGPT integration with Siri. The ChatGPT integration triggers when users ask Siri complicated questions. When Siri is asked a question that Apple’s software identities as better suited for ChatGPT, it asks the […]
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