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Asia-Pacific markets set to open lower, tracking Wall Street losses as AI stocks resume slump
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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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’
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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
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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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