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Alphabet stock surges on Gemini 3 AI model optimism
VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images Alphabet stock jumped 5% on Wednesday after Google debuted its latest artificial intelligence model, Gemini 3, sparking optimism from investors. The new model is an improvement on its predecessor, Gemini 2.5, which Google released about eight months ago. Google said Gemini 3 allows users to get […]
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Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board after release of emails with Epstein
Larry Summers, president emeritus and professor at Harvard University, at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said Wednesday that he will resign from the board at OpenAI after the release of emails between him and the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Summers had announced […]
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Meta wins FTC antitrust trial that focused on WhatsApp, Instagram
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta won its high-profile antitrust case against the Federal Trade Commission, which had accused the company of holding a monopoly in social networking. In a memorandum opinion released Tuesday, […]
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Waymo says it will launch in more Texas and Florida cities in 2026
A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar taxi drives along a street on March 14, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Waymo on Tuesday said it will bring its robotaxi service to new cities in Texas and Florida in 2026. The Alphabet-owned company said it plans to start operating its vehicles with no […]
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Google announces Gemini 3 as battle with OpenAI intensifies
Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images Google is debuting its latest artificial intelligence model, Gemini 3, as the search giant races to keep pace with ChatGPT creator OpenAI. The new AI model will allow users to get better answers to more complex questions, “so you get what you need with less prompting,” Alphabet CEO […]
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Anthropic to buy $30 billion in Azure capacity in new deal with Microsoft, Nvidia
Microsoft on Tuesday announced new strategic partnerships with Nvidia and the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, the latest sign that the company is working to reduce its dependence on OpenAI. As part of the agreement, Microsoft will invest $5 billion into Anthropic, while Nvidia will invest $10 billion into the startup. Anthropic has committed to purchasing […]
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Cloudflare down: Company blames ‘unusual’ spike in traffic before outage errors
Person’s handing hold an iPhone displaying a Cloudflare Error while attempting to access a webpage, during an outage of the Cloudflare service, Lafayette, California, November 18, 2025. Smith Collection/gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare was hit by an outage on Tuesday, knocking several major websites offline for global users. E-commerce […]
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Zoox begins offering robotaxi rides in San Francisco, facing off with Waymo
A Zoox autonomous robotaxi in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Zoox on Tuesday began allowing select San Francisco users to hail its driverless vehicles, pitting the Amazon-owned robotaxi service against Alphabet’s Waymo in the same market for the first time. Riders can sign […]
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Downdetector shows Elon Musk’s X down for thousands of U.S. users, Cloudflare having issues
Cloudflare store is seen at Promenade Street in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21, 2025. Ömer Sercan Karku | Anadolu | Getty Images Elon Musk’s X was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 11,500 reports of issues with the social media platform […]
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Dell, HPE shares sink after Morgan Stanley downgrades — computer hardware stocks also hit
Igor Golovnov | Lightrocket | Getty Images Data center stocks took a major hit on Monday after Morgan Stanley downgraded seven hardware companies, including Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The bank double-downgraded Dell from overweight to underweight and downgraded HPE from overweight to equal weight. Dell and HPE closed down 8% and 7%, respectively. HP […]
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