Artificial intelligence
Uber Freight CEO joins self-driving truck company Waabi, says era of autonomous big rigs on U.S. roads is here
Raquel Urtasun (L), Waabi founder and CEO, and Lior Ron (R), who has joined Waabi as chief operating officer after growing Uber Freight to a $5 billion revenue company. Waabi Lior Ron, founder and CEO of Uber Freight, is joining self-driving truck startup Waabi as chief operating officer. The move, Ron says, is based on […]
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Sam Altman now says AGI, or human-level AI, is ‘not a super useful term’ — and he’s not alone
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the Snowflake Summit in San Francisco on June 2, 2025. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said artificial general intelligence, or “AGI,” is losing its relevance as a term as rapid advances in the space make it harder to define the concept. AGI […]
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SoftBank founder Son makes his biggest bet by staking the Japanese giant’s future on AI
Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks at the SoftBank World event in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Masayoshi Son is making his biggest bet yet: that his brainchild SoftBank will be the center of a revolution driven by artificial intelligence. […]
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AI agents are being drafted into the cyber defense forces of corporations
The rise of generative AI and large language models has drastically shifted the cybersecurity landscape, empowering attackers with easy-to-use tools that can create realistic video and voice deepfakes, personalized phishing campaigns, and malware and malicious code. That has opened the door for AI on the defense as well. As agentic AI becomes more deeply embedded in […]
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Gen AI is coming for online checkout in seismic shift for internet shopping
The logos of Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude by Anthropic, Perplexity, and Bing apps are displayed on the screen of a smartphone in Reno, United States, on November 21, 2024. Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images In the world of online payments, the buzzword these days is frictionless, as companies entice customers with […]
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Tech is getting a boost from AI ad tools. Some companies are being left behind
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., arrives for the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial intelligence has been a shot in the arm for digital advertising. Meta and Alphabet both reported sales and earnings that beat Wall Street’s expectations, but […]
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Big Tech’s trillion-dollar market cap club could have a new member in the next few years, Dan Ives says
Palantir is on its way to becoming a trillion-dollar company, according to prominent tech bull Dan Ives. The AI company’s stock has surged more than 140% since the beginning of the year. Earnings beats , lucrative military contracts and the firm’s CEO boasting about “crazy, efficient revolution” in terms of growing revenue while downsizing headcount, […]
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Record-setting market: Using ETFs to help avoid hefty tax bills
ETF Edge Record-setting market: Using ETFs to help avoid hefty tax bills Published Fri, Aug 8 20257:30 AM EDT Siena Griffin@siena_griffin WATCH LIVE Source
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AppLovin CEO sees benefits from Apple-Epic fallout as stock pops on earnings
Adam Foroughi, CEO of AppLovin. CNBC AppLovin shares resumed their historic rally on Thursday after the ad-tech company reported better-than-expected earnings for the second quarter. The stock popped 11% and is now up 34% for the year after soaring more than eightfold in 2024. Wall Street has piled into the company due to its growth […]
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Amazon’s cloud business giving federal agencies up to $1 billion in discounts
Attendees walk through an exposition hall at AWS re:Invent, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, 2024. Noah Berger | Getty Images Amazon Web Services has agreed to provide U.S. federal agencies with up to $1 billion in discounts for cloud adoption, modernization and training through 2028, an agency […]
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