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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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Scale AI’s life after Meta deal has been rocky, but CFO insists it’s not a ‘zombie company’
Scale AI CFO Dennis Cinelli. Courtesy of Scale AI. After Meta shocked the tech world in June by announcing plans to invest $14.3 billion in Scale AI, primarily as a way to hire the startup’s founder, Alexandr Wang, and a handful of his employees, the future of Scale was immediately thrown in doubt. OpenAI soon […]
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Palantir stock drops 7% on valuation concerns as CEO Karp rips short seller ‘market manipulation’
Palantir‘s stock fell 7% on Tuesday as Wall Street analysts raised concerns about the company’s elevated valuation and “Big Short” investor Michael Burry revealed a short position in the software company. During an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Tuesday, CEO Alex Karp ripped into short sellers, calling their moves “market manipulation.” Karp called the […]
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Instacart rolls out AI tools for grocers, Sprouts will be first to use its Cart Assistant
Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Instacart on Tuesday launched a suite of artificial intelligence tools for grocers to deliver more personalized shopping experiences and improve retail operations. CEO Chris Rogers told CNBC that the announcement is a major step forward in the company’s enterprise strategy, which has grown to power hundreds of digital storefronts. “It’s […]
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Amazon’s new subsea internet cable Fastnet will have the capacity to stream 12.5 million HD movies simultaneously
Amazon is building a subsea fiber-optic cable called Fastnet to connect Maryland’s Eastern shore to County Cork, Ireland, in what will be the company’s first wholly-owned subsea cable project. Subsea fiber-optic communication cables carry over 95% of international data and voice traffic across the globe. These cables transmit hundreds of terabits of data per second […]
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CNBC Daily Open: AI is carrying the weight of the U.S. market
CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images The “everything store” might have secured its biggest customer yet. On Monday, Amazon announced that it had signed a $38 billion deal with OpenAI, offering the ChatGPT maker access to Amazon Web Services’ infrastructure. On the one hand, the move isn’t too surprising — a continuation of OpenAI’s spending spree […]
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CNBC Daily Open: Outside AI, the market isn’t looking that hot
CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images The “everything store” might have secured its biggest customer yet. On Monday, Amazon announced that it had signed a $38 billion deal with OpenAI, offering the ChatGPT maker access to Amazon Web Services’ infrastructure. On the one hand, the move isn’t too surprising — a continuation of OpenAI’s spending spree […]
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Nvidia adds nearly $100B in market cap in a matter of days. Here is what’s going right
Nvidia was once again on the move after the world’s three biggest cloud companies, along with Meta Platforms , guided spending higher last week to keep pace in the artificial intelligence arms race. Some, if not much, of that spend should continue to fill the coffers of the Jensen Huang-run AI chip king. Club stock […]
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