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Elon Musk says Tesla needs “gigantic chip fab” for its AI and robotics
Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. Hamad I Mohammed | ReutersTesla CEO Elon Musk says the company will likely need to build a "gigantic" semiconductor fabrication plant to…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says company is not seeking government backstop
Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, appears on CNBC's Squawk Box on August 20, 2025. CNBCOpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said late Wednesday that the artificial intelligence startup is not seeking a government backstop for its infrastructure commitments,…
Mastodon’s latest software update brings quote posts to all server operators
Decentralized open source social network Mastodon is rolling out its latest release, version 4.5, which brings support for Quote Posts to all server operators, along with other features for admins, conversation improvements, and more.…
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang softens his ‘China will win the AI race’ remark to FT
Jensen Huang attends a reception for the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, at St James' Palace in London, Brirain, Nov. 5, 2025. Yui Mok | Via ReutersNvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly told the Financial Times on Wednesday…
Discord’s Family Center update now lets parents monitor weekly purchases
Discord has rolled out updates to its Family Center, giving guardians more insights into their teens’ usage patterns, including purchases, top interactions, and time spent. The goal is to help parents monitor whether their teen is…
China’s Pony.ai shares drop 12%, WeRide down 8% in Hong Kong debut
A Pony.ai autonomous car.Pony.aiChina's Pony.ai on Thursday saw its shares drop over 12%, while rival WeRide fell nearly 8% as the autonomous driving companies began trading in Hong Kong.Pony.ai and WeRide, which are already listed in…
The fuel for the AI boom driving the markets is advertising. It is also an existential risk.
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025.Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWith OpenAI's recent release of its AI…
Google gets the US government’s green light to acquire Wiz for $32B
Google’s $32 billion acquisition of cloud security company Wiz took has taken step closer toward the finish line.
Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport said at a Wall Street Journal event on Tuesday, as reported by Reuters, that the acquisition had…
Toyota profits fall for a second consecutive quarter as U.S. tariffs hit exports
A sign with the Toyota logo in Surrey, England on August, 2023Peter Dazeley | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesToyota Motor on Wednesday raised the operating profit forecast for its financial year ending in March, while flagging a 1.45…
Trump flips and re-nominates Jared Isaacman to lead NASA
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced on his social media platform Truth Social that he is re-nominating Shift4 founder Jared Isaacman to lead the NASA, the nation’s space agency, months after withdrawing the nomination.
The…
Pinterest shares plummet 20% on earnings miss, weak forecast
Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesPinterest shares tanked nearly 20% on Tuesday after the company reported third-quarter financial results that missed on earnings per share and provided weak guidance.Here's how the company did,…
Amazon building Fastnet, its first solo subsea cable project
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…
iOS 26.1 lets you turn down liquid glass’ transparency
Apple’s latest iOS update, available for eligible devices from Monday, doesn’t introduce any major features, but it does bring one highly-requested tweak: the ability to change the transparency of the translucent liquid glass design.…
Palantir CEO Karp’s Q3 earnings call comments
Alex Karp, Palantir CEO, joins CNBC's ‘Squawk on the Street’ on June 5, 2025. CNBCPalantir CEO Alex Karp took on a familiar target during the company's earnings call on Monday: His critics."Please turn on the conventional television and…
Elad Gil on which AI markets have winners — and which are still wide open
Solo VC investor extraordinaire Elad Gil said on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt that AI has been one of the least predictable tech booms he’s ever seen.
Gil is on the cap table of virtually every hit company of the past decade, including…
OpenAI signs $38 billion deal with Amazon, first partnership with AWS
OpenAI has signed a deal to buy $38 billion worth of capacity from Amazon Web Services, its first contract with the leader in cloud infrastructure and the latest sign that the $500 billion artificial intelligence startup is no longer…
Kevin Rose’s simple test for AI hardware — would you want to punch someone in the face…
Kevin Rose has a visceral rule for evaluating AI hardware investments: “If you feel like you should punch someone in the face for wearing it, you probably shouldn’t invest in it.”
It’s a typically candid assessment from the veteran…
Standard Chartered CEO expects nearly all transactions to move to blockchain
Bill Winters, chief executive officer of Standard Chartered, speaks at Hong Kong Fintech Week in Hong Kong on Nov. 3, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBill Winters, CEO of Standard Chartered, foresees a future in which nearly all…