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Lucid targets industry-first self-driving car technology with Nvidia
The Lucid display is seen at the New York International Auto Show on April 16, 2025. Danielle DeVries | CNBC Lucid Group is targeting a new goal that would make it the first automaker to offer highly advanced self-driving capabilities in its vehicles in the coming years, the company said Tuesday. The all-electric vehicle manufacturer […]
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Cramer: Amazon layoffs will help costs, but growth in this one area is what’s needed most
Amazon ‘s latest round of layoffs may help the bottom line, but CNBC’s Jim Cramer encouraged investors to keep their eyes on what really matters. That would be Amazon Web Services. The e-commerce and cloud giant said Tuesday it will cut 14,000 corporate jobs, or about 4% of the total corporate and tech workforce, to […]
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GitHub unites OpenAI, Google and Anthropic AI agents in one place to bring ‘order to the chaos’
Signage at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, California, US, on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Benjamin Fanjoy | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft’s GitHub unit on Tuesday announced Agent HQ, a new “mission control” interface that will allow software developers to manage coding agents from multiple vendors on a single platform. An artificial intelligence agent […]
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Google investors have big expectations after stock’s sharpest quarterly rally in 20 years
Google CEO Sundar Pichai waves as he arrives to attend the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, February 11, 2025. Benoit Tessier | Reuters Alphabet has a high bar to clear when it reports earnings Wednesday. The company’s stock price soared 38% in the third quarter, its best quarterly […]
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Bill Gates softens ‘Climate Disaster’ approach, says strategy needs to shift
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who wrote a book in 2021 titled, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” now says leaders need to shift their approach to climate change. In a letter published Tuesday ahead of next week’s COP30 U.N. climate summit, Gates argued that too many resources are focused on emissions and the environment, and […]
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PayPal signs deal with OpenAI to become the first payments wallet in ChatGPT
Alex Chriss, CEO of PayPal Inc. Courtesy: PayPal PayPal has signed a deal with OpenAI to have its digital wallet embedded into ChatGPT so users can pay for items found through the leading consumer AI tool, the company told CNBC exclusively. The agreement, sealed over the weekend, means that starting next year, both sides of […]
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Google and NextEra to revive major Iowa nuclear facility as AI energy demand surges
Stock photo of a nuclear power plant. Larry Lee Photography | Corbis | Getty Images Google and American electrical utility giant NextEra Energy announced a partnership Monday to revive Iowa’s only nuclear power plant to meet growing low-carbon energy demand from artificial intelligence The Duane Arnold Energy Center, which closed in 2020, could begin operating […]
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Chegg slashes 45% of workforce, blames ‘new realities of AI’
Dan Rosensweig, CEO, Chegg Scott Mlyn | CNBC Chegg said on Monday it would lay off about 45% of its workforce, or 388 employees, as the “new realities” of artificial intelligence and diminished traffic from internet search have led to plummeting revenue. The online education company, founded 20 years ago, has been hit by the […]
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AI startup Mercor now valued at $10 billion with new $350 million funding round
Artificial intelligence startup Mercor announced on Monday a new Series C round that values the company at $10 billion, a fivefold increase since its last raise in February. The company said in a blog post that it raised $350 million in a round led by Felicis, which also led its $100 million Series B round, […]
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Qualcomm announces AI chips to compete with AMD and Nvidia — stock soars 15%
Qualcomm announced Monday that it will release new artificial intelligence accelerator chips, marking new competition for Nvidia, which has so far dominated the market for AI semiconductors. The stock soared 15% following the news. The AI chips are a shift from Qualcomm, which has thus far focused on semiconductors for wireless connectivity and mobile devices, […]
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