People observe an area affected by a blackout that hit about 130,000 residents, according to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. Carlos Barria | Reuters Alphabet-owned Waymo has suspended its driverless ride-hail service in the San Francisco Bay Area after blackouts plagued the city Saturday afternoon. “We have […]
The Xbox booth during the Gamescom video games trade fair at the Trade Fair Center in Cologne, Germany, Aug. 20, 2025. Ina Fassbender | Afp | Getty Images Microsoft’s Xbox has had a tumultuous year. A slew of layoffs, price hikes and studio closures have led many to declare — not for the first time
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Sad female worker carrying her belongings while leaving the office after being fired Isbjorn | Istock | Getty Images Layoffs have been a defining feature of the job market in 2025, with several major companies announcing thousands of job cuts driven by artificial intelligence. In fact, AI was responsible for almost 55,000 layoffs in the
Medianews Group/boston Herald Via Getty Images | Medianews Group | Getty Images Los Angeles resident Ruth Horne, 76, enticed by a bargain, bought what she thought was a Roomba to vacuum her house, but the experience ended in frustration. “It kept getting stuck somewhere and would then just go around in circles,” Horne said. She
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Lucid Motors gets rave reviews from critics. But it’s sorely lacking customers. That’s a problem the company can’t afford. The Arizona-based EV maker has top-shelf tech, deep-pocketed backers, and highly praised cars. However, it has struggled to meet production targets, and has been unable to steal the spotlight away from established luxury brands with century-old
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Palo Alto Networks will migrate key internal workloads to Google Cloud as part of a new multibillion-dollar agreement, the companies announced Friday. The companies said the deal is an expansion of their existing strategic partnership and will deepen their engineering collaboration. Palo Alto Networks is now using Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence models to power its
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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 Friday’s key moments. 1. Stocks were higher Friday, led by a rebound in Big Tech as the AI trade attempted to regain momentum. Nvidia stock jumped nearly 3% after Bernstein noted it is
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Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images With the AI talent wars heating up between companies like OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic, one way Google has been competing is by aggressively rehiring
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Oracle‘s stock jumped about 5% Friday after the cloud provider joined a group of investors slated to lead TikTok’s U.S. operations. In a memo to employees Thursday, CEO Shou Zi Chew said the social media company’s U.S. division will be run by a joint venture that includes Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based MGX. The
Intel was once the world’s largest semiconductor company, but its market cap plummeted in recent years as the chipmaker fell behind Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and spent billions of Dollars trying to catch up. Now, Intel has entered high-volume production of 18A, the new chip node it says will turn things around. The biggest problem?
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