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Amazon’s Zoox boosts robotaxi production ahead of first commercial launch in Las Vegas
Amazon’s Zoox robotaxi unit is ramping up vehicle production at a new facility in Hayward, California. Zoox Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle startup Zoox on Wednesday opened a sprawling new manufacturing facility in the San Francisco Bay Area, paving the way for more robotaxi production as it plans a commercial rollout of its fleet later this year. […]
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Nintendo’s Switch 2 has powered a $39 billion rally this year
Nintendo Co. Switch 2 game consoles at a Bic Camera Inc. electronics store in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, June 5, 2025. Nintendo Co. fans from Tokyo to Manhattan stood in line for hours to be among the first to get a Switch 2, fueling one of the biggest global gadget debuts since the iPhone launches […]
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Trump to extend TikTok deadline for third time, pushing decision out another 90 days
Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty Images For a third time since taking office in January, President Donald Trump plans to extend a deadline that would require China’s ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. business. “President Trump will sign an additional Executive Order this week to keep TikTok up and running,” White House Press Secretary Karoline […]
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AWS’ custom chip strategy is showing results, and cutting into Nvidia’s AI dominance
Amazon Web Services is set to announce an update to its Graviton4 chip that includes 600 gigabytes per second of network bandwidth, what the company calls the highest offering in the public cloud. Ali Saidi, a distinguished engineer at AWS, likened the speed to a machine reading 100 music CDs a second. Graviton4, a central […]
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AI will shrink Amazon’s workforce in the coming years, CEO Jassy says
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during a keynote address at AWS re:Invent 2024, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, at The Venetian Las Vegas on December 3, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Noah Berger | Getty Images Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Tuesday that the company’s corporate workforce will shrink in the coming years […]
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Meta to release smart glasses with Oakley and Prada, extending Luxottica partnership
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tries on Orion AR glasses at the Meta Connect annual event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., September 25, 2024. REUTERS/Manuel Orbegozo Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta and EssilorLuxottica plan to release versions of their AI-powered smart glasses under the Oakley and Prada brands, CNBC has learned. The […]
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Pain management startup Sword Health expands into mental health, raises $40 million
Sword Health, a startup focused on helping people deal with pain through digital services, is expanding into mental health and has raised additional capital to fuel its growth. The 10-year-old company is introducing Mind, which uses a combination of artificial intelligence, hardware and human mental health professionals to treat patients with mild depression and anxiety. […]
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Tencent bets its China WeChat and gaming expertise will help it win cloud business in Europe
Chinese tech company Tencent is a gaming giant and the parent company of WeChat, the ubiquitous social messaging app in China. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Tencent has spent years evolving into a gaming and social media giant in China and in the process, has built up its cloud computing capabilities. […]
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Amazon extends Prime Day to four days, starting July 8
An Amazon worker moves boxes on Amazon Prime Day in the East Village of New York City, July 11, 2023. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Amazon is extending its Prime Day discount bonanza, announcing that the annual sale will run four days this year. The 96-hour event will start at 12:01 a.m. PT on July […]
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Google issues apology, incident report for hours-long cloud outage
Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, speaks at a cloud-computing conference held by the company in 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google apologized for a major outage that the company said was caused by multiple layers of flawed recent updates. The company released an incident report late on Friday that explained hours […]
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