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Lyft shares sink 6% on underwhelming fourth-quarter results
Lyft shares shed about 6% after the ride-sharing app reported lackluster fourth-quarter results and offered weak bookings guidance as it lowers prices to keep up with competition.The company reported revenue of $1.55 billion, versus the…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns of ‘race’ to understand AI as it becomes more powerful
Right after the end of the AI Action Summit in Paris, Anthropic’s co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei called the event a “missed opportunity.” He added that “greater focus and urgency is needed on several topics given the pace at which the…
Fintech unicorn Zepz to lay off 200 employees, sources say
Mark Lenhard, CEO of U.K.-based remittances platform Zepz.Lukas Schulze | Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty ImagesLONDON — British digital remittances company Zepz is laying off dozens of IT workers and is in the process of closing…
Shopify took down Kanye’s swastika T-shirt shop, but another antisemitic storefront still…
Shopify took down Kanye West’s online store after the musician sold T-shirts with the swastika symbol.
West, who also goes by Ye, advertised his online store in a Super Bowl commercial on Sunday, directing viewers to his website, where…
Tesla drops 7% on self-driving competition, Musk OpenAI distractions
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk joins U.S. President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 11, 2025 in Washington, DC.Andrew Harnik | Getty ImagesTesla shares dropped 6% on Tuesday…
Sam Altman says Musk aims to ‘slow down a competitor’ with OpenAI bid
PARIS — Elon Musk aims to "slow down a competitor" when the investor group he led put forward a $97.4 billion proposal for control of OpenAI, the company's CEO, Sam Altman, told CNBC on Tuesday.Asked how seriously he is taking Musk's…
BYD to offer Tesla-like driver assist, even on its cheapest models
Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD unveiled “God’s Eye,” an advanced driver assistance system that will be install on its entire model lineup, including its $9,600 Seagull hatchback.
BYD founder Wang Chuanfu said at a live streamed…
France’s answer to Stargate: Macron announces AI investment
French President Emmanuel Macron greets journalists after meetings with guests at the Elysee Palace before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, July 26, 2024. REUTERS/Yara NardYara Nardi |…
Google changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps
Google Maps officially updated the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Monday.
Among many other executive orders, President Donald Trump decreed on the day of his inauguration that the Gulf of Mexico would be renamed…
Google Calendar removes start of Black History, Women’s History months
The Google Calendar logo is displayed on a tablet.Igor Golovniov | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesGoogle's popular online and mobile calendars no longer include reference to the first day of Black History Month or Women's…
AppDynamics founder Jyoti Bansal merges startups Harness, Traceable
Jyoti Bansal, co-founder and CEO of startup Harness.HarnessJyoti Bansal knows about weird acquisitions.Eight years ago, his software company, AppDynamics, was on the doorstep of a blockbuster IPO. A day before the offering, Cisco swooped…
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li warns policymakers not to let sci-fi sensationalism shape AI rules
Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford researcher who also founded World Labs, was invited to the Grand Palais in Paris on Monday to give the opening speech at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit which is taking place this week.
While she…
Amazon scrubs DEI mention from its annual report
A person walks by The Spheres at the Amazon.com Inc. headquarters in Seattle, Washington, on Nov. 14, 2022.David Ryder | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAmazon has removed any references to diversity and inclusion from its most recent…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed
In a new essay on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is open to a “compute budget,” among other “strange-sounding” ideas, to “enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI” and ensure the benefits of the technology…
Deepseek’s AI model ‘the best work’ out of China: Google Deepmind CEO
Google DeepMind co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Demis Hassabis gives a conference during the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom industry's biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on February 26, 2024.Pau Barrena | Afp | Getty…
Trump delays ending of de minimis trade exemption targeting China
Employees package and sort express parcels at an e-commerce company on Nov. 1, 2024, around the Double 11 Shopping Festival in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province of China.Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump signed an…
Apple’s new research robot takes a page from Pixar’s playbook
Last month, Apple offered up more insight into its consumer robotics work via a research paper that argues that traits like expressive movements are key to optimizing human-robot interaction. “Like most animals,” starts the report,…
Affirm shares soar 22% on revenue beat, surprise profit during holiday
Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal and chief executive officer of financial technology company Affirm, arrives at the Sun Valley Resort for the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, in Sun Valley, Idaho.Drew Angerer | Getty…