Several AI applications can be seen on a smartphone screen, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, Grok and DeepSeek. Philip Dulian | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Corporate leaders and investors are brimming with optimism about the potential of artificial intelligence to boost worker productivity, profitability and shareholder returns. The general public […]
NVIDIA AI Computing Card captured in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China on Dec. 9, 2025. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images U.S. authorities announced Tuesday that they have shut down yet another China-linked smuggling network that trafficked or attempted to traffic more than $160 million in export-controlled Nvidia AI chips. According to a press release
Google was on Tuesday hit with an EU antitrust investigation over its use of online content for AI purposes, marking the latest in a series of crackdowns from the bloc on regulating U.S. big tech companies. The European Commission said it was investigating whether Google had breached EU competition rules by using the content of
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A view of the water tower at Paramount Studios on Oct. 30, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Paramount Skydance on Monday launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, following Netflix’s announcement last week that it had reached a deal to buy the HBO owner. The company is “here
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China’s artificial intelligence device market is already booming, and in the advanced technology race against the U.S., the country’s expertise in hardware could give it an edge. “The advantage comes from the fundamental root that China is a nation of manufacturing,” Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of 01.AI and chairman of Sinovation Ventures, told CNBC. “Today,
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U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he attends a roundtable discussion on the day he announced an aid package for farmers, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Dec. 8, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump on Monday said the United States will allow tech giant Nvidia to ship its H200 artificial
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Waymo driverless taxi parks in lower Manhattan in New York City, U.S., Nov. 26, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Waymo, the robotaxi unit owned by Alphabet, has crossed 450,000 weekly paid rides, according to a letter from investor Tiger Global viewed by CNBC. That’s almost double the milestone it hit in April, when Waymo reported
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Johny Srouji, senior vice president of hardware technologies at Apple Inc., speaks during the Peek Performance virtual event in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple chip leader Johny Srouji addressed rumors of his impending exit in a memo to staff on Monday, saying he doesn’t
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