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Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: Intel, Ford, Deckers, Newmont and more
Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading. Alphabet — Shares of search engine giant Alphabet ticked 1% higher after Anthropic and Google officially announced their cloud partnership Thursday. The deal, worth tens of billions of dollars, gives Anthropic access up to one million of Google’s custom-designed Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs. Ford Motor […]
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GM plans to launch eyes-off driving, Google AI and other new in-vehicle tech by 2028
Mary Barra speaks onstage during WSJ’s Future of Everything 2025 at The Glasshouse on May 28, 2025 in New York City. Dia Dipasupil | Getty Images NEW YORK — General Motors is targeting a suite of new software initiatives for its vehicles over the next three years, including an in-vehicle artificial intelligence assistant from Google […]
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Spanish-language audiences are growing even as TV viewership declines
Chris Ryan | Ojo Images | Getty Images The Spanish-language TV audience is growing, and advertisers are taking notice. Over the past few years, the Hispanic population in America has seen significant growth in TV viewership, according to experts, becoming one of the most valuable demographics for media companies and advertisers. And as these consumers […]
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Waymo plans robotaxi launch in London, marking its European debut
Waymo self-driving cars with roof-mounted sensor arrays traveling near palm trees and modern buildings along the Embarcadero, San Francisco, California, February 21, 2025. Smith Collection/gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images Alphabet‘s Waymo is bringing its driverless ride-hailing services to London, the first European market for its robotaxi. The company said in a release on […]
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Netflix and Spotify partner to bring podcasts by The Ringer to the video platform
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Spotify is officially bringing video podcasts to Netflix. The partnership will bring a selection of podcasts from The Ringer, a network acquired by Spotify in 2020, to the streaming company in early 2026 for U.S. users. The podcasts will range from sports to culture to true crime, aiming […]
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Google adds limits to ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy that began during Covid
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google is continuing to put restrictions on remote work, this time with a popular policy called “Work from Anywhere” that was established during the […]
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Google cuts more than 100 design-related roles in cloud unit
Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, speaks at a cloud computing conference held by the company in 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google has laid off more than 100 employees in design-related roles, CNBC has learned. Earlier this week, the company laid off employees within the cloud unit’s “quantitative user experience research” […]
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Google adds Gemini to Chrome for all users in push to bolster AI search
Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Google is adding more artificial intelligence into its Chrome browser as the search giant tries to fend off burgeoning competition from AI startups OpenAI and Perplexity. In a blog post Thursday, Google said it’s rolling out Gemini in Chrome to users of Mac and Windows computers in the […]
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Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year, exec says
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai during the Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, on May 10, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google has eliminated more than one-third of its managers overseeing small teams, an executive told employees last week, as the company continues its focus on efficiencies across the organization. […]
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Google says Fox channels to go dark on YouTube TV if agreement isn’t reached
Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Google-owned YouTube on Monday said it may remove channels including Fox Broadcast Network, Fox News and Fox Sports from its TV streaming platform if it doesn’t reach an agreement with Fox Corporation. YouTube TV’s renewal date with Fox is coming on Wednesday, and while the two companies have been […]
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