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Pokémon card boom: What’s behind the hype and demand?
This photograph shows displayed collectible cards from the Pokemon Trading Card Game (TCG) at an amateur collector's appartment in Paris on March 11, 2026.Martin Lelievre | Afp | Getty ImagesWhen I was a kid in the late 90s, collecting…
Waymo expands pause to four cities as robotaxis keep driving into floods
Waymo has now paused service in four cities because its robotaxis are struggling to deal with heavy rain and flooded roads, a problem that already prompted the company to issue a recall last week.
One of Waymo’s robotaxis was spotted…
SpaceX launch 12th test flight of massive Starship rocket as IPO looms
SpaceX's new Starship V3 rocket is seen docked at the Starbase during the 12th test flight on May 21, 2026 as seen from South Padre Island in Texas. Ronaldo Schemidt | Afp | Getty ImagesSpaceX scrubbed the launch of its massive Starship…
Bloom Energy rises 2% after partnership with European AI cloud firm
Bloom Energy power storage equipment in San Ramon, California.Smith Collection | Gado | Archive Photos | Getty ImagesBloom Energy's shares were higher before the opening bell after it unveiled a partnership with Europe's Nebius, an AI…
Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links
For months, scammers have been taking advantage of a loophole that allows them to send spammy emails from an internal Microsoft email address typically used for sending legitimate account alerts.
It’s not clear how the scammers are…
Nvidia says it has ‘largely conceded’ China’s AI chip market to Huawei
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang waves after a welcome ceremony for US President Donald Trump at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 14, 2026. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty ImagesNvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company…
Anthropic says it’s about to have its first profitable quarter
Anthropic has told its investors that it will more than double revenue to around $10.9 billion in its second quarter, and deliver an operating profit for the first time, the Wall Street Journal reports.
That’s a big milestone and fast…
Mamdani fires back at Bezos over Queens teacher tax remark
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, left, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.Getty Images (L) | CNBC (R)New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani fired back on Wednesday at Jeff Bezos after the Amazon founder and executive chairman questioned whether raising…
Days of college ‘over’ as skilled trades get 30% pay bump: Randstad
Female apprentice engineer working with CNC machine in factoryWitthaya Prasongsin | Moment | Getty ImagesThe days of going to college to secure a lucrative career are over, as skilled trade workers have seen a 30% wage bump in the past…
‘Ask YouTube’ brings AI-powered conversational search to video, adds Gemini Omni to…
Google is completely revamping its search experience, and that doesn’t stop at YouTube. Like the rest of Google, YouTube’s search bar is getting infused with AI tools like “Ask YouTube,” a feature that is supposed to give users a more…
SpaceX picks Goldman Sachs for lead left position on IPO, sources say
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attends a state banquet for President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 14, 2026.Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty ImagesSpaceX, which is getting…
Google just declared itself a contender in AI design at IO 2026
Google announced at its annual Google I/O event on Tuesday that it’s launching Pics, a new AI-powered design and image-generation app for Google Workspace. The tech giant says it designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from…
Google unveils AI model Gemini 3.5 and AI agent Gemini Spark
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Google I/O Developers Conference in Mountain View, California, US, on Tuesday, May 19, 2026.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGoogle is rolling out its latest…
Theo Baker spent four years investigating Stanford. Before he leaves, here’s what he found.
Most members of Stanford’s class of 2026 are smart, ambitious, and poised for remarkable careers. Theo Baker already has one. In his first semester of college, Baker broke the story that forced Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne to…
Blackstone to invest $5 billion in AI infrastructure venture with Google
The Google Cloud logo is displayed on a high-definition digital monolith at the entrance of the Google pavilion during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on March 5, 2026. For the 2026 edition, Google Cloud showcases its…
Intel CEO says foundry business is gaining momentum as customer interest grows
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said Monday that the company's external manufacturing business is gaining traction, emerging as a key piece of the chipmaker's turnaround. "Foundry is very important," Tan told Jim Cramer on CNBC's "Mad Money." "It's…
Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare
Anthropic announced Monday it has acquired Stainless, a startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray whose software is widely used by rival AI labs, including OpenAI and Google.
Anthropic didn’t disclose terms of the deal.…
Meta’s layoffs starting this week underscore Zuckerberg’s AI reality
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, as he delivers a speech presenting the new line of smart glasses, during the Meta Connect event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., Sept. 17,…