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PayPal, OpenAI sign ChatGPT payments deal
Alex Chriss, CEO of PayPal Inc.Courtesy: PayPalPayPal has signed a deal with OpenAI to have its digital wallet embedded into ChatGPT so users can pay for items found through the leading consumer AI tool, the company told CNBC…
Chegg slashes 45% of workforce, blames ‘new realities of AI’
Dan Rosensweig, CEO, CheggScott Mlyn | CNBCChegg said on Monday it would lay off about 45% of its workforce, or 388 employees, as the "new realities" of artificial intelligence and diminished traffic from internet search have led to…
Glīd is building an autonomous shortcut to move freight from road to rail — catch it at TechCrunch…
Kevin Damoa came face-to-face with the challenges and dangers of moving freight from road to rail as a 17-year-old U.S. Army enlistee tasked with loading tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles onto the railroad. It was — as the mechanical…
Airbnb wants to help hosts prevent Halloween parties
Klaudia Radecka | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesAirbnb wants to block parties this spooky season.The travel and home rental platform said Monday that it will utilize its anti-party technology this Halloween weekend. The tech factors in the…
Accel and Prosus team up to back early-stage Indian startups
Storied investors Accel and Prosus have launched a new investment partnership to back Indian startups from day zero, targeting founders building large-scale solutions with the potential to serve the masses in the South Asian nation.…
Google and Anthropic announce cloud deal worth tens of billions
Anthropic and Google officially announced their cloud partnership Thursday, a deal that gives the artificial intelligence company access to up to one million of Google's custom-designed Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs.The deal, which is…
Meta faces a new threat from OpenAI’s new viral Sora 2 video app
Meta is facing new pressure from OpenAI, the juggernaut behind ChatGPT, which is now making waves in short-form video with its viral hit, Sora 2. The new app combines AI-powered video generation with a social feed that mimics TikTok and…
Ads might be coming to Apple Maps next year
Apple Maps users could start seeing ads in the app as soon as next year, according to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Similar to Google Maps and other mapping apps, Apple’s plan is to allow restaurants and other businesses…
Cramer on 10 stocks reporting earnings next week; calls two buys
Earnings season next week goes into overdrive as more than 150 companies in the S & P 500 report their quarterly results. Most of the "Magnificent Seven" tech firms are among them. With Tesla already out and Nvidia not out until Nov.…
OpenAI reportedly developing new generative music tool
OpenAI is working on a new tool that would generate music based on text and audio prompts, according to a report in The Information.
Such a tool could be used to add music to existing videos, or to add guitar accompaniment to an…
AI spending is boosting the economy, many businesses in survival mode
Cameron Pappas, owner of Norton's FloristNorton'sFor Cameron Pappas, owner of Norton's Florist in Birmingham, Alabama, the artificial intelligence boom is a world away.While companies like Nvidia, Alphabet and Broadcom are lifting the…
Stocks hit record highs — plus, we started a new name
Stocks jumped for the second straight week and reached record highs Friday as Washington trade and shutdown drama took a back seat to cooler inflation data and stronger earnings. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq rose 2% and 2.3%,…
Who are AI browsers for?
OpenAI launched an AI-powered web browser called ChatGPT Atlas this week, which makes me wonder: Is it finally time to ditch Safari?
That news was on our minds as Max Zeff, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed the browser landscape —…
3 takeaways from Intel’s third quarter earnings report
Intel snapped a losing streak of six straight quarterly losses and returned to profitability in the third quarter.In its first earnings report since the Trump administration acquired a 10% stake in the company, the U.S. chipmaker posted…
How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including Spotify, Figma, Canva, and others
OpenAI recently launched new app integrations in ChatGPT to allow you to connect your accounts directly to ChatGPT and ask the assistant to do things for you. For instance, with a Spotify integration, you can tell it to create…
More demand than supply gives companies an edge, Jim Cramer says
"Supply constrained," are the two of the most important words CNBC's Jim Cramer said he's heard so far during earnings season and explained why this dynamic is favorable for companies."When you're supplied constrained, you have the…
Arbor’s ‘vegetarian rocket engine’ power plant is actually an omnivore
Two years ago, former SpaceX engineers used rocket tech to develop a power plant capable of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, with a small asterisk. To draw down CO2, it burned plant waste, making it a sort of “vegetarian…
AMD stock pops on report IBM can use its chips for quantum computing
Shares of Advanced Micro Devices jumped more than 6% on a report that IBM can utilize the company's chips to run certain quantum computing algorithms.IBM gained about 6%.Reuters reported on Friday that a paper will publish next week…