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Google increased CEO Sundar Pichai’s security costs by 22% in 2024
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, arrives for a US Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images Google paid $8.27 million for CEO Sundar Pichai’s personal […]
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Palantir is soaring while its tech peers are sinking. Here’s why
Alex Karp, chief executive officer of Palantir Technologies Inc., speaks during the AIPCon conference in Palo Alto, California, US, on March 13, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tech stocks have struggled in 2025, as recession and trade war fears sap investor appetite for riskier assets. Palantir is the exception. Against a […]
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PayPal kicks off fintech earnings as investors fear impact of Trump tariffs on consumer spending
FILE PHOTO: A smartphone with the PayPal logo is placed on a laptop in this illustration taken on July 14, 2021. Dado Ruvic | Reuters PayPal, Block and Affirm are all closely tied to the health of the consumer, which has investors on edge headed into their earnings reports. Markets broadly have been jittery to […]
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Cloud software vendors Atlassian, Snowflake and Workday are betting on security startup Veza
From left, Veza founders Rob Whitcher, Tarun Thakur and Maohua Lu. Veza Tech giants like Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia have captured headlines in recent years for their massive investments in artificial intelligence startups like OpenAI and Anthropic. But when it comes to corporate investing by tech companies, cloud software vendors are getting aggressive as […]
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Meta’s AI spending comes into focus amid Trump’s tariff policies
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks on before the luncheon on the inauguration day of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second Presidential term in Washington, U.S., Jan. 20, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Mark Zuckerberg’s plan is to make Meta the market leader in artificial intelligence. Investors will want to know how President Donald Trump’s tariffs-heavy trade […]
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AI data center boom isn’t going bust, but the ‘pause’ is trending
Sprawling, power-thirsty data centers have become as much a staple of suburbia in some places as shopping malls and soccer fields. However, when Microsoft pulled the plug on planned data centers in Ohio last month, it added to questions about whether the nascent data center boom had already gone bust. A Wells Fargo report last Monday saying […]
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How TikTok’s rise sparked a short-form video race
TikTok’s grip on the short-form video market is tightening, and the world’s biggest tech platforms are racing to catch up. Since launching globally in 2016, ByteDance-owned TikTok has amassed over 1.12 billion monthly active users worldwide, according to Backlinko. American users spend an average of 108 minutes per day on the app, according to Apptoptia. […]
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California overhauling self-driving vehicle regulations. Tesla shares climb 10%
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 New rules for testing and deployment of self-driving vehicles are on the way in the state of California. The California DMV announced on Friday […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: T-Mobile, Alphabet, Tesla, Intel, Saia and more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: T-Mobile — Shares pulled back 11% after the company’s wireless subscribers for the first quarter missed Wall Street estimates. T-Mobile reported 495,000 postpaid phone additions in the first-quarter, while analysts polled by StreetAccount were looking for 504,000. Alphabet — The Google parent company gained about 2% […]
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Alphabet jumps 3% as search, advertising units show resilient growth
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 Alphabet‘s stock gained 3% Friday after signaling strong growth in its search and advertising businesses amid a competitive artificial intelligence environment and uncertain macro backdrop. “GOOGL’s pace of GenAI […]
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