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A Waymo rider-only robotaxi is seen during a test ride in San Francisco on Dec. 9, 2022. Paresh Dave | Reuters Alphabet is again investing in its self-driving…
Read more Alphabet to invest $5 billion in self-driving car unit WaymoSopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of Pinterest popped 18% in extended trading Tuesday after the company reported first-quarter results that beat analysts’ estimates and showed…
Read more Pinterest shares soar 18% on earnings beat, strong revenue growthBritish digital bank Monzo on Tuesday raised $430 million in fresh capital from investors to help it relaunch its services in the U.S. Monzo raised the money in…
Read more British neobank Monzo raises $430 million in Alphabet-led round to relaunch in the U.S.Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends a media roundtable meeting in Singapore on Dec. 6, 2023. Edgar Su | Reuters Nvidia reported fourth fiscal quarter earnings that beat Wall…
Read more Nvidia posts record revenue up 265% on booming AI businessSnap Inc. co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel speaks during the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups, at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, June…
Read more Snap plunges 30% on revenue miss and light guidance, as company says Middle East war creates ‘headwind’Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Tuesday’s key moments. 1. U.S. stocks…
Read more Wall Street issues a bullish call on big banks. Here’s what it says about our financial stocksGoogle headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Jan. 30, 2023. Marlena Sloss | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google cut dozens of jobs in its news division this week,…
Read more Google cuts dozens of jobs in news divisionA woman crossing a normally busy stretch of downtown San Francisco suffered serious injuries Monday night after a hit-and-run driver struck her, throwing her into the path of…
Read more San Francisco woman trapped under autonomous Cruise vehicle after being struck in hit and runMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella arrives at federal court on October 2, 2023 in Washington, DC. Nadella is testifying in the antitrust trial to determine if Alphabet Inc.’s Google…
Read more It’s ‘really the Google web’: Microsoft CEO testifies about how hard it is to break into searchArm CEO Rene Haas and executives cheer as Softbank’s Arm, a chip design firm, holds an initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, Sept. 14,…
Read more Arm climbs 25% in Nasdaq debut after pricing IPO at $51 a shareKent Walker speaks at a “Grow with Google” launch event in Cleveland. via Google Google previewed Friday how it plans to fight off the U.S. government’s charges of…
Read more Here’s how Google plans to fight the DOJA screenshot of Project Sunroof shows the map data offered by the pilot project, which is meant to help consumers plan solar installations for their homes. Screenshot Google…
Read more Google to begin selling maps data to companies building solar products, hopes to generate $100 million in first yearApple CEO Tim Cook arrives for an official State Dinner in honor of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 22,…
Read more Google, Microsoft, and Meta can’t stop talking about A.I. — here’s why Apple rarely mentions itSundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet. Source: Alphabet Alphabet has faced a lot of noise this year around the health of its core search business, due to a slumping…
Read more Google points to many ways it can win in A.I. even as online ad market shows cracksPreply, a language learning platform connecting people with tutors, raised $70 million of fresh capital to ramp up its use of artificial intelligence, the company told CNBC exclusively. …
Read more Ukrainian-founded Duolingo rival Preply banks $70 million to push into A.I.Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on June 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. The committee held the hearing to review…
Read more Google and Meta got customer data from tax prep firms, and lawmakers want a probeSmoke from the Canadian wildfires blankets New York City affecting air quality on June 7th, 2023. Leslie Josephs | CNBC Google is telling its East Coast employees to…
Read more Google tells employees in New York and along the East Coast to work from home as smoke fills the airAmericans in most states will no longer receive Covid exposure notifications on their smartphones now that the U.S. public health emergency has ended. Since 2020, nearly 30 states…
Read more Americans in most states will no longer receive Covid exposure notifications on phonesAlphabet is merging an internal Google Research team called Brain with DeepMind, a move designed to bring two groups focused on artificial intelligence closer together as the battle…
Read more Read the internal memo Alphabet sent in merging A.I.-focused groups DeepMind and Google BrainAn Android statue is displayed in front of a building on the Google campus on January 31, 2022 in Mountain View, California. Google parent company Alphabet will report…
Read more Google drops global vaccine requirement to enter buildings, says ‘world is in a very different place’
