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China’s ‘instant commerce’ price war sees $0.30 drinks and billions in subsidies doled out
A Meituan food delivery courier rides an electric scooter in Chongqing, China, on March 29, 2025. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images In China’s fiercely competitive market, the latest price war is playing out in the growing “instant commerce” sector, where companies are launching massive subsidies and other incentives to get consumers […]
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Norway’s Tesla obsession defies Europe’s Musk backlash
An electric car at a charging station in the Norwegian capital of Oslo on Sept. 25, 2024. Jonathan Nackstrand | Afp | Getty Images OSLO, Norway — Tesla continues to find solace in Norway, defying a sustained European slump amid a backlash over CEO Elon Musk’s incendiary political rhetoric. The U.S. electric vehicle maker recorded […]
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Grok 4 appears to seek Elon Musk’s views when answering controversial questions
The X logo on a phone. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images When xAI’s Grok 4 chatbot was launched on Wednesday, users and media outlets quickly began pointing out examples of it consulting its owner Elon Musk’s views on controversial matters. CNBC was able to confirm that when asked to take a stance on some […]
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Linda Yaccarino briefly loses verified X checkmark after stepping down as CEO
X Corp’s CEO Linda Yaccarino looks on during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on online child sexual exploitation at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 31, 2024. Nathan Howard | Reuters Ex-X CEO Linda Yaccarino is still @lindayaX on the social media site, but she briefly lost the blue checkmark next to her account […]
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Clear CEO: True and trusted identity is more important than ever
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Julia Boorstin interviews Clear CEO Caryn Seidman-Becker in Sun Valley about how the company is using AI and striking new partnerships to grow outside of its airport security offerings. Source
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Trump to host Jensen Huang at White House as Nvidia tops $4 trillion market cap
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers remarks next to U.S. President Donald Trump at an ‘Investing in America’ event in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2025. Leah Millis | Reuters Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, CNBC’s Megan Cassella reported. The meeting comes as Nvidia rose […]
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Amazon warehouse workers lose jobs after Trump’s immigration crackdown: ‘We have done everything legally’
Boxes are selected on a conveyor belt during Cyber Monday at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Robbinsville, New Jersey, U.S., December 2, 2024. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters Daphnee Poteau, a Haitian who came to the U.S in 2023, began working for Amazon last year at a returns center in Indianapolis. While packing up boxes, she met her husband […]
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Startups love the UK. Its IPO market? Not so much
London’s Old Street roundabout, home to many tech firms and sometimes dubbed “Silicon Roundabout.” Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.K. capital markets are at a crossroads. The country’s startups raised $8 billion in the first six months of the year, according to a report from Dealroom and HSBC Innovation Banking — more than […]
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Amazon Web Services is building equipment to cool Nvidia GPUs as AI boom accelerates
The letters AI, which stands for “artificial intelligence,” stand at the Amazon Web Services booth at the Hannover Messe industrial trade fair in Hannover, Germany, on March 31, 2025. Julian Stratenschulte | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Amazon said Wednesday that its cloud division has developed hardware to cool down next-generation Nvidia graphics processing units […]
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OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta on Dec. 11, 2023. Dustin Chambers | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet’s market-dominating Google Chrome, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The browser is slated to launch […]
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