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Why Meta and Snap are spending billions on AR glasses
After a decade of development and billions of dollars, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in September pulled back the curtain on one of the company’s most ambitious projects: an augmented reality prototype called Orion. A week earlier, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel took the stage at its annual Snap Partner Summit to introduce its AR capable, 5th-generation […]
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Tesla investors have a lot of questions for Musk about his political activism for Trump
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks with former president Donald Trump during a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty Images As Tesla prepares for quarterly results Wednesday, many investors have one big issue on their minds: Donald Trump. On a […]
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How trolls, lawsuits and layoffs led to a ‘trust and safety winter’ for misinformation ahead of election
Nina Jankowicz, a disinformation expert and vice president at the Centre for Information Resilience, gestures during an interview with AFP in Washington, DC, on March 23, 2023. Bastien Inzaurralde | AFP | Getty Images Nina Jankowicz’s dream job has turned into a nightmare. For the past 10 years, she’s been a disinformation researcher, studying and […]
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Amazon-backed Anthropic debuts AI agents that can do complex tasks, racing against OpenAI, Microsoft and Google
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. Chesnot | Getty Images Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI startup founded by former OpenAI research executives, announced Tuesday that it’s reached an artificial intelligence milestone for the company: AI agents that can use a computer to complete complex tasks like a human would. Anthropic is the company […]
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Nvidia, Google, Microsoft and more head to Las Vegas to tout health-care AI tools
Visitors check out Nvidia’s AI technology at the 2024 Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, China, on September 19, 2024. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Nvidia, Google, Microsoft and dozens of other tech companies are descending on Las Vegas next week to showcase artificial intelligence tools they say will save doctors and nurses valuable time. Sunday […]
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After rejecting Google takeover, cyber firm Wiz says it will IPO ‘when the stars align’
LONDON — Cybersecurity firm Wiz is seeking to hit $1 billion of annual recurring revenues next year, the company’s billionaire co-founder Roy Reznik told CNBC, adding that the firm will go public “when the stars align.” Wiz makes software that connects to cloud storage providers like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure and scans for […]
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Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave
Amazon Web Services CEO, Matt Garman speaks during CNBC Power Lunch on July 1, 2024. CNBC Amazon‘s cloud boss on Thursday gave employees a frank message about the company’s recently announced five-day in-office mandate. Staffers who don’t agree with Amazon’s new policy can leave, Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said during an all-hands meeting […]
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Google CEO names new search and ads boss, slides predecessor to role of chief technologist
Google is replacing Prabhakar Raghavan, the company’s search and ads boss, with longtime Google executive Nick Fox. The move was announced by Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, who said in a blog post on Thursday that Raghavan will be moving into the role of chief technologist after 12 years of leading teams across the search company. […]
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Hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb believes Trump’s chances are increasing and he’s betting accordingly
Third Point’s Daniel Loeb believes the odds are rising that former President Donald Trump will win the U.S. presidency this November over Vice President Kamala Harris, and the influential hedge fund manager is increasing positions that would benefit under a Republican administration and Congress. “We believe that the likelihood of a Republican victory in the […]
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Stanley Druckenmiller says he’s ‘licking my wounds’ from selling Nvidia too soon
Stanley Druckenmiller at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha on Sept. 28, 2022. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller said on Wednesday that his decision to sell out of Nvidia this year was a “big mistake.” “I’ve made so many mistakes in my investment career — one of them was I sold all my Nvidia probably […]
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