The New York Stock Exchange welcomes executives and guests of Roblox in celebration of its direct listing, March 10, 2021. NYSE Roblox, the popular kid’s gaming platform that generates billions of Dollars a year in the virtual world, is getting real. The company said on Friday that some game developers on the platform will be […]
A pedestrian passes by the Google office in New York City on Jan. 25, 2023. Leonardo Munoz | View Press | Getty Images A month after losing a landmark antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice, Google is headed back to court to face off for a second time against federal prosecutors. In August,
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The entrance to Google’s U.K. offices in London. Olly Curtis | Future Publishing | via Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s competition watchdog on Friday issued a statement of objections over Google’s ad tech practices, which the regulator provisionally found are impacting competition in the U.K. In a statement, the Competition and Markets Authority alleged that
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Lion King directors Roger Allers (L) and Rob Minkoff. Kevin Winter | Getty Images Artificial intelligence is a “Wild West” with “very few rules” — but it has the potential to democratize the film industry in the long term, according to the director of “The Lion King.” Rob Minkoff, who co-directed the classic 1994 animated
A little over three years ago, private equity investor Orlando Bravo called FTX the “most cutting-edge, sophisticated cryptocurrency exchange in the world,” as his buyout firm helped lead a $900 million investment in the company at a valuation of $18 billion. Bravo now tells CNBC that he and his firm, Thoma Bravo, are permanently out
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A man wearing Abbott’s Lingo biosensor. Courtesy of Abbott Abbott Laboratories announced Thursday its over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor Lingo is available in the U.S. starting at $49. Lingo is part of an emerging class of consumer-friendly biosensors that people can use to learn how their bodies respond to food, exercise, sleep and stress. These devices,
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A Tesla Model S car equipped with Autopilot. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla said it will launch its “Full Self Driving” driver assistance product in Europe and China early next year. In a post on the X social media platform, Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company on Thursday said that the service
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Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are powered by a Qualcomm chip. Qualcomm, Samsung and Google are working on smart glasses, according to Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told CNBC the chip designer is working with Samsung and Google to explore a mixed-reality set of glasses linked to
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Ilya Sutskever, Russian Israeli-Canadian computer scientist and co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, speaks at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, June 5, 2023. Jack Guez | AFP | Getty Images OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, who left the artificial intelligence startup in May, has raised $1 billion from investors for his new AI company, Safe Superintelligence (SSI).
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Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images A panel of Brazil’s federal supreme court justices voted unanimously to uphold orders suspending the use of Elon Musk’s social network X nationwide. One justice, Luiz Fux, voted to uphold but expressed “reservations” about a measure of the order that allows the court to fine individuals or businesses
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