Everyone gave Reddit an upvote

Everyone gave Reddit an upvote

The New York Stock Exchange welcomes Reddit, Inc. (NYSE: RDDT) to celebrate its initial public offering. To honor the occasion, Snoo, rings the Opening Bell®. NYSE This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where … Read more

Alphabet shares rise on earnings beats boosted by cloud revenue

Alphabet shares rise on earnings beats boosted by cloud revenue

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks with Emily Chang during the APEC CEO Summit at Moscone Center West in San Francisco on Nov. 16, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Google parent Alphabet reported third-quarter earnings that beat on top and bottom lines with strong revenue growth from the company’s cloud unit. … Read more

Robotaxis are here and the public is divided

Robotaxis are here and the public is divided

Driverless cars are speeding onto America’s streets, but whether the public will trust robotaxis remains an open question.  Nearly two-thirds of Americans said they would not want to ride in a driverless passenger vehicle if they had the opportunity, according to a Pew Research Center Survey. That’s because residents in cities that have yet to … Read more

Southwest Airlines tells staff ‘difficult decisions’ ahead

Southwest Airlines tells staff ‘difficult decisions’ ahead

A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-7H4 approaches San Diego International Airport for a landing from Houston on June 28, 2024 in San Diego, California.  Kevin Carter | Getty Images Southwest Airlines has warned employees that it will have to make “difficult decisions” ahead to boost profits as the carrier faces pressure from activist Elliott Investment Management, … Read more

Court backs Google’s challenge to the EU’s $1.7 billion antitrust fine

Court backs Google’s challenge to the EU’s .7 billion antitrust fine

A Google logo displays on a smartphone screen and the European flag on a computer screen. Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images The European Union’s second-highest court on Wednesday said a 1.5 billion euro ($1.7 billion) fine imposed on Google by regulators should be annulled, siding with the U.S. tech giant after it challenged … Read more

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google leaders meet with White House to talk AI

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google leaders meet with White House to talk AI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during a fireside chat organized by Softbank Ventures Asia in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images Leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google and several American power and utility companies met Thursday at the White House to discuss the future of artificial intelligence … Read more

Amazon makes £8 billion UK investment to build cloud and AI infrastructure

Amazon makes £8 billion UK investment to build cloud and AI infrastructure

Amazon’s computing unit AWS is in talks with Italy to invest billions of euros in the expansion of its data center business in the country as part of the tech giant’s effort to boost its cloud offer in Europe, four people familiar with the matter said. Cesc Maymo | Getty Images News | Getty Images … Read more

The big risks of bitcoin ATMs

The big risks of bitcoin ATMs

Bitcoin ATMs are a rapidly growing presence in the United States and, some experts say, a rapidly growing cybercrime menace. ATMs dealing in bitcoin are similar to their cash cousins: there are PINs to punch and withdrawal fees, just like any other ATM. Unlike cash ATMs, though, the high value of crypto makes them prime targets … Read more

How Google, Microsoft and Amazon are raiding AI startups for talent

How Google, Microsoft and Amazon are raiding AI startups for talent

Microsoft, Google and Amazon along with other tech companies have been getting creative in how they’re poaching talent from top artificial intelligence startups. Earlier this month, Google signed an unusual deal with Character.ai to hire away its prominent founder and more than one-fifth of its workforce while also licensing its technology. It looked like an acquisition, but … Read more

Amazon-backed Anthropic hit with class-action lawsuit over copyright infringement

Amazon-backed Anthropic hit with class-action lawsuit over copyright infringement

Anthropic, the Amazon-backed artificial intelligence startup, on Monday was hit with a class-action lawsuit in California federal court over alleged copyright infringement. Three authors said in the filing that Anthropic “built a multibillion-dollar business by stealing hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books,” including their own. Anthropic, which was founded by ex-OpenAI research executives, has backers … Read more