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CNBC Daily Open: It’s a bad time to be a tech investor — or employee
An Amazon Web Services Inc. office in Herndon, Virginia, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images October’s job losses in the U.S. were nearly twice as high as a month earlier — the steepest for any October since 2003, data from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas showed. The technology […]
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Southeast Asia’s largest bank CEO warns investors: ‘Buckle up, we’re in for a volatile ride’
Tan Su Shan is the CEO and director of DBS Group. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images With valuations in the U.S. stock market becoming increasingly stretched, the chief executive of Southeast Asia’s largest bank is warning investors to expect turbulence ahead. “We’ve seen a lot of volatility in the markets. It could be equities, […]
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CNBC Daily Open: Tech had a rough day in the markets — its employees had a worse October
Traders works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE October’s job losses in the U.S. were nearly twice as high as a month earlier — the steepest for any October since 2003, data from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas showed. The technology sector was the hardest hit, with 33,281 cuts, almost […]
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Asia-Pacific markets set to open lower, tracking Wall Street losses as AI stocks resume slump
View of the central business district skyline at sunset in Beijing, China. Sheng Peng | Visual China Group | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets were set to open lower Friday, tracking Wall Street declines on persistent concerns over lofty valuations in artificial intelligence stocks. Shares of major AI companies fell Thursday stateside, weighing down on the […]
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The stocks set to win from soaring AI spend, according to analysts
Corporate investment into artificial intelligence totaled over $250 billion last year as companies raced to develop intelligence-fueled products and services. That spend kept pace this year and is only expected to increase further as Big Tech firms like Meta , Alphabet and Microsoft vie for the AI dominance and pour more cash into the technology. […]
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Microsoft forms superintelligence team under AI chief Suleyman ‘to serve humanity’
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI and then CEO and co-founder of Inflection AI, speaks during the Axios BFD event in New York on Oct. 12, 2023. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Microsoft on Thursday said it’s forming a team that will be tasked with performing advanced artificial intelligence research. Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of the Microsoft […]
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Google’s rolling out its most powerful AI chip, taking aim at Nvidia with custom silicon
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google is making its most powerful chip yet widely available, the search giant’s latest effort to try and win business from artificial intelligence companies […]
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Microsoft letting employees raise concerns about products after Middle East controversy
Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks at a press conference at the Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia about future visions for the development and application of artificial intelligence in education in NRW in Berlin on June 4, 2025. Soeren Stache | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Microsoft is giving employees a way to raise […]
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HubSpot adds Clara Shih, Meta’s head of business AI, to board of directors
Clara Shih, who’s now head of business AI at Meta., speaks during the 2024 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images HubSpot announced on Wednesday that Clara Shih, Meta’s head of business AI, has been added to the software company’s Board of […]
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Amazon upheaval: With morale shaken, Jassy looks for next big play after mass layoffs
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during the GeekWire Summit in Seattle on Oct. 5, 2021. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sat on a stage in a Seattle conference center in September, looking out at an audience of thousands of sellers who’d traveled from around the world to the company’s […]
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