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Scale AI plans to promote strategy chief Droege to CEO as founder Wang heads for Meta
FILE PHOTO: Jason Droege speaks at the WSJTECH live conference in Laguna Beach, California, U.S. October 22, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to serve as its new CEO, with founder Alexandr Wang heading to Meta as part of a multibillion-dollar deal with the company, CNBC […]
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Meta files lawsuit against developer of CrushAI ‘nudify’ app
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg departs E. Barrett Prettyman United States Court House on April 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images Meta is suing a company that ran ads on its services to promote an app that lets people create non-consensual, sexualized images of others using AI technology, the social media company […]
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Small retailers on ‘vacation from hell’ as they seek clarity on Trump’s China tariffs
A UPS seasonal worker delivers packages on Cyber Monday in New York on Nov. 27, 2023. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images When Matt Kubancik, a small business owner in Louisville, Kentucky, cast his ballot for Donald Trump in November, he was hoping that the Republican nominee’s return to the White House would provide […]
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Google adds chief AI architect to accelerate development of AI products
VCV | Visual China Group | Getty Images Google on Wednesday added a chief AI architect to its leadership ranks as the company continues to prioritize artificial intelligence and add the technology to more of its products. The company tapped Koray Kavukcuoglu, Google DeepMind’s chief technology officer, for the new senior vice president position, the […]
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German startup DeepL says latest Nvidia chips lets it translate the whole internet in just 18 days
DeepL CEO Jaroslaw “Jarek” Kutylowski. DeepL DeepL on Wednesday said it was deploying one of the latest Nvidia systems that would allow the German startup to translate the whole internet in just 18 days. This is sharply down from 194 days previously. , DeepL is a startup that has developed its own AI models for and […]
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Zuckerberg makes his biggest AI bet as Meta nears $14 billion stake in Scale AI, hires founder Wang
Mark Zuckerberg arrives before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States takes place inside the Capitol Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. Kenny Holston | Via Reuters Mark Zuckerberg is so frustrated with Meta’s standing in artificial intelligence that he’s willing to […]
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Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey says the defense tech company will ‘definitely’ go public
Defense tech startup Anduril Industries will go public, founder and CEO Palmer Luckey said Tuesday. “We are definitely going to be a publicly traded company,” he told CNBC’s “Closing Bell: Overtime.” “We are running this company to be the shape of a publicly traded company.” He added that there isn’t “really a path” for a […]
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Google offers buyouts to employees across the company, including Search
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, speaks at the Google I/O developer conference. Andrej Sokolow | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Google on Tuesday offered buyouts to employees across several of its divisions, including those within its knowledge and information and central engineering units as well as marketing, research and communications teams, CNBC has learned. Knowledge […]
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Amazon Kuiper second satellite launch delayed by ULA due to weather
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is on the launch pad carrying Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet network satellites, which are expected to eventually rival Elon Musk’s Starlink system, at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 9, 2025. Steve Nesius | Reuters United Launch Alliance said Tuesday it was […]
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Google overhauls internal learning platform to focus on AI, ‘business priorities’
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, speaks during an event in New Delhi, December 19, 2022. Sajjad Hussain | AFP | Getty Images Google is overhauling a popular internal learning platform to focus on teaching employees how to use modern artificial intelligence tools in their daily work routines, CNBC has learned. Grow, as the learning service […]
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