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The next front in U.S.-China tech battle? Underwater cables that power the global internet
Subsea cables are the backbone of the internet, carrying 99% of the world’s data traffic. Serg Myshkovsky | Photodisc | Getty Images U.S.-Chinese tensions surrounding technology have have sunk to sea lows. Subsea cables hit the headlines earlier this year after four out of 15 critical submarine cables in the Red Sea were cut amid […]
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A big European asset manager trims Nvidia shares after huge rally
DNB Asset Management, a Nordic fund giant managing nearly $90 billion as of the end of 2023, dumped a sizable portion of its Nvidia stake after the chipmaker’s stunning 2024 run, according to a new regulatory filing. The firm decreased its Nvidia share count by 9% in the second quarter to about 9.3 million shares, […]
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CNBC Daily Open: Trump assassination attempt
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during afternoon trading in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. […]
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Google reportedly in advanced talks to acquire cyber startup Wiz for $23 billion, its largest-ever deal
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford’s 2024 Business, Government, and Society forum in Stanford, California, April 3, 2024. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Google is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity firm Wiz for $23 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. The people familiar told the […]
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AT&T’s massive information breach deepens disaster for Snowflake seven months just after hack was disclosed
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake and formerly co-founder and CEO of startup Neeva, speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 21, 2022. Eóin Noonan | Sportsfile | Collision | Getty Illustrations or photos Snowflake has spent the previous seven months dealing with the fallout of a key cyberattack that compromised delicate buyer info […]
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Just after leaving Google, Jakob Uszkoreit started out Inceptive to implement AI to drug progress
Prior to co-founding biotech startup Inceptive, Jakob Uszkoreit experienced an plan that would at some point make generative artificial intelligence doable. As a researcher at Google in 2017, Uszkoreit was striving to velocity up the training of neural networks. He advised utilizing a new way to interpret knowledge named self-notice. That thought gave way to […]
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Tesla shares fall 6% after report of robotaxi unveiling delay
Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X speaks during the Milken Conference 2024 Global Conference Sessions at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 6, 2024. David Swanson | Reuters Tesla shares fell about 6% on Thursday after Bloomberg reported that the electric vehicle maker is delaying […]
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China’s robotaxi push sparks concerns about job security for drivers
More than 70% of Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi rides in Wuhan were fully driverless as of April, and the company said in May it expected 100% of the rides to be completely autonomous in coming quarters. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s yearslong effort to develop robotaxis is starting to gain traction […]
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HubSpot shares plunge 11% on report that Alphabet is shelving interest in acquiring software company
HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan speaks at the company’s Inbound conference in Boston on Sept. 6, 2023. Chance Yeh | HubSpot | Getty Images HubSpot shares plunged 11% on Wednesday after a report said Alphabet isn’t going forward with plans to buy the software company. According to Bloomberg, Alphabet was in talks with HubSpot earlier this […]
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San Francisco’s AI increase can’t quit authentic estate slide, as workplace vacancies access new record
Synthetic intelligence has been a big boon for San Francisco actual estate. But not enough of a person to make up for the broader struggle throughout the market. The vacancy charge for San Francisco place of work space attained a new file of 34.5% in the 2nd quarter, in accordance to a report Monday from […]
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