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Alibaba workforce shrinks 34% in 2025 as Chinese tech giant doubles down on AI
The Alibaba stand at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Center in Shanghai, China, on July 5, 2024. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Alibaba‘s workforce shrank by roughly 34% over the course of 2025, as the company offloaded some of its offline retail businesses while doubling down on artificial […]
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Tesla in talks with Chinese firms to buy $2.9 billion worth of solar equipment, sources say
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla is looking to buy equipment worth $2.9 billion for manufacturing solar panels and cells from Chinese suppliers including Suzhou Maxwell Technologies, two people familiar with the matter said, as CEO Elon Musk aims to add 100 gigawatts […]
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OpenAI to create desktop super app, combining ChatGPT app, browser and Codex app
Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI will combine its web browser, ChatGPT app and Codex coding app into a singular desktop super app, CNBC confirmed on Thursday. Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications, will oversee the change with assistance from OpenAI President Greg Brockman, according to a spokesperson. The new app aims to […]
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Apollo’s Sambur says software’s AI troubles will persist, noting the ‘very large unknowns’
Apollo Global Management‘s David Sambur told CNBC on Thursday that the selloff in software stocks from fears of artificial intelligence disruption is far from over. “I unfortunately think it’s very early,” Sambur, who is co-head of private equity, told CNBC’s “Money Movers.” Some Wall Street analysts have been comforted by the recent rebound in the […]
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U.S. tech execs smuggled Nvidia chips to China, prosecutors say
NVIDIA AI Computing Card captured in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China on Dec. 9, 2025. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York on Thursday charged people associated with a U.S. server maker with illegally diverting billions of dollars in artificial intelligence servers to China. The […]
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Amazon acquires startup Rivr to test robots for ‘doorstep delivery’
A worker delivers Amazon packages in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon has acquired Rivr, a Swiss robotics company developing machines for “doorstep delivery,” the company confirmed Thursday. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Amazon quietly purchased the company earlier this week, but it didn’t publicize […]
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Apple bears are proven wrong yet again as iPhone defies the China slump narrative
Memory shortages. Way behind on AI. Tariff troubles. None of that seems to matter to Apple. It keeps selling tons of iPhones — bucking expectations, especially in China. iPhone sales in China surged 23% during the first nine weeks of 2026, in contrast to a 4% year-over-year decline in the entire smartphone market there, according […]
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Column: Jensen Huang doesn’t need a new chip. He needs a new moat.
Nvidia dominated the first era of AI — CEO Jensen Huang is making sure it owns the next one. He’s turning Nvidia from a chipmaker that’s helping to drive a market cycle into the operating system for the future of artificial intelligence. The shift has mostly gone unnoticed and hasn’t yet been priced in by […]
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Figma’s stock drops 11% in two days after Google releases ‘vibe design’ product
Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, appears on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on July 31, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Figma’s downward slide this year, driven by concerns about artificial intelligence, intensified over the past two days after Google intoduced an AI-powered design product. On Tuesday, Google […]
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Meta backtracks on decision to end Horizon Worlds VR after fans speak up
Pavlo Gonchar| SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images A day after announcing that it will be shutting down Horizon Worlds for Quest virtual reality headsets, Meta has changed course. The company said Wednesday that the VR platform will remain available “for the foreseeable future.” “We have decided, just today in fact, that we will […]
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