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Tony Xu, co-founder and CEO of DoorDash Inc., smiles during the Wall Street Journal Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, on Oct. 22, 2019. Martina Albertazzi | Bloomberg | Getty Images During the depths of the Covid pandemic, with restaurants around the country facing an existential crisis, DoorDash CEO Tony Xu had an unconventional […]

LAS VEGAS — The bitcoin treasury play that lifted Strategy’s market cap past $80 billion is now being mimicked by meme stock companies, media firms, and multinational conglomerates. But Wall Street isn’t buying all the hype. This week, Trump Media announced plans to raise $2.5 billion to buy bitcoin, and GameStop revealed a $500 million […]

Hester Peirce, commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), speaks during the DC Blockchain Summit in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Valerie Plesch | Bloomberg | Getty Images LAS VEGAS — Now that the SEC is out of the business of regulating meme coins, investors shouldn’t expect any guidance on $TRUMP, […]

Bitcoin 2025 brought together thousands of investors, builders, and believers for a showcase of crypto’s next chapter. MacKenzie Sigalos LAS VEGAS — At the world’s largest bitcoin conference this week on the Vegas Strip, the most consequential story wasn’t about bitcoin. Stablecoins, the dollar-pegged digital tokens now driving a full-scale financial and political shift in […]

Elon Musk is interviewed on CNBC from the Tesla headquarters in Texas. CNBC Shares of the Elon Musk-led automaker Tesla have rallied in May despite recent poor car sales numbers for the company in China and Europe, as the billionaire CEO promised to focus more on his businesses than politics. Tesla shares are on track […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump. Dan Kitwoodnicholas Kamm | Afp | Getty Images China is calling out the U.S. for “discriminatory restrictions” in its use of export controls in the chip industry, after the Trump administration accused the world’s second-largest economy of violating a preliminary trade deal between the two countries. […]

Zscaler rings the opening bell at the Nasdaq exchange in New York, March 16, 2018. Source: Nasdaq Zscaler shares jumped 8% Friday after reporting stronger-than-expected results in the third fiscal quarter driven by artificial intelligence and widespread adoption of its zero-trust security platform. “The proliferation of AI in all aspects of business is increasing the […]

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images The SEC has formally dropped its lawsuit against Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao, bringing an end to one of the last remaining crypto enforcement actions brought by the agency. In a Thursday filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, lawyers for the SEC and […]

A Dell Technologies sign is seen in Round Rock, Texas, on June 2, 2023. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Shares of Dell Technologies rose on Thursday in extended trading after the company raised its full-year earnings forecast and issued a stronger-than-expected forecast for the current quarter. However, Dell’s adjusted earnings per share came up short […]

The neighborhood once known as Boca Chica Village is seen near the SpaceX facilities where they build rockets in Brownsville, Texas, on May 3, 2025. Gabriel Cardenas | AFP | Getty Images Starbase, Texas, has notified some residents that they might “lose the right to continue using” their property as they do today, according to […]

Sassine Ghazi, CEO of semiconductor design software firm Synopsys, explains the company’s plans to have artificial intelligence take over parts of designing computer chips at the company’s annual user conference in Santa Clara, California, on March 19, 2025. Stephen Nellis | Reuters Synopsys pulled its guidance for the full fiscal year on Thursday, citing a […]

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is seen through glass during an event on the sidelines of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, Feb. 11, 2025. Aurelien Morissard | Via Reuters Elon Musk tried to derail a major artificial intelligence infrastructure deal in the Middle East after learning that his startup, xAI, would be excluded […]

Palmer Luckey, Founder @ Oculus VR Andutil Industries, during day two of Collision 2019 at Enercare Center in Toronto, Canada. Stephen McCarthy | Sportsfile | Getty Images Meta and Anduril, the defense-tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey, announced Thursday that they’ve formed a partnership to create virtual and augmented reality devices intended for use by […]

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during an Amazon Devices launch event in New York City, U.S., February 26, 2025.  Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Amazon‘s devices unit has a new team tasked with inventing “breakthrough” consumer products that’s being led by a former Microsoft executive who helped create the Xbox. The ZeroOne team is spread across […]

Omada Health smart devices in use. Courtesy: Omada Health Omada Health plans to raise up to $158 million in its up coming IPO, attaining a market cap of about $1.1 billion at the top end of its expected range, according to a filing on Thursday. The virtual chronic care company filed its prospectus earlier this […]

Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO of Salesforce, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22nd, 2025. Gerry Miller | CNBC Salesforce shares slumped about 6% despite topping Wall Street’s fiscal first-quarter estimates and lifting its full-year guidance due to artificial intelligence tailwinds. The sales and customer service software […]

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during an Amazon Devices launch event in New York City, U.S., February 26, 2025.  Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters The New York Times on Thursday struck a deal with Amazon allowing it to use the storied news organization’s content across its artificial intelligence platforms. The multi-year deal “will bring Times editorial […]

Nvidia reported strong fiscal first-quarter earnings on Wednesday. Wall Street was pleased with Nvidia’s continued sales growth, which hit 69% during the quarter. The company’s data center division continues to surge as companies, countries, and cloud providers snap up Nvidia graphics processors, or GPUs, for artificial intelligence software. “The team continues to maintain a 1- […]

Intel’s CEO Lip-Bu Tan speaks at the company’s Annual Manufacturing Technology Conference in San Jose, California, U.S. April 29, 2025. Laure Andrillon | Reuters When Lip-Bu Tan was named CEO of Intel a little over two months ago, he brought with him plenty of name recognition. Tan spent 12 years running Cadence Design Systems and […]

Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, during the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on May 20, 2025. Annabelle Chih | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia shares jumped in premarket trading on Thursday after posting a positive set of earnings, sparking a rally in global semiconductor stocks. Shares of Nvidia were 5.22% higher at 05:06 […]

Deepseek’s logo on Jan. 29, 2025. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chinese startup DeepSeek, which caused shockwaves across markets this year, quietly released an upgraded version of its artificial intelligence reasoning model. The company did not make an official announcement, but the upgrade of DeepSeek R1 was released on AI model repository Hugging […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk reacts while wearing a cap with the words “Gulf of America” as he attends a cabinet meeting held by U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 30, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters With his official stint in government coming to an end, Elon Musk thanked […]

Elon Musk interviews on CNBC from the Tesla Headquarters in Texas. CNBC Elon Musk needs to spend more time at Tesla as his electric vehicle company faces a “crisis,” according to a letter on Wednesday from a group of pension fund leaders who manage investments in the company. “Tesla’s stock price volatility, declining sales, as […]

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta’s artificial intelligence assistant now has one billion monthly active users across the company’s family of apps, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday at the company’s annual shareholder meeting. The […]

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff participates in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2025. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Salesforce shares were volatile in extended trading on Wednesday after the sales and customer service software maker reported upbeat fiscal first-quarter results and guidance. Here’s how the company […]

Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images HP reported second-quarter results that beat analysts’ estimates for revenue but missed on earnings and guidance, in part due to President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. Shares sank 15% after the report. Here’s how the company did versus analysts’ estimates compiled by LSEG: Earnings per share: 71 cents adjusted vs. 80 […]

The Synopsys headquarters in Mountain View, California, on April 13, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of chip design software makers Cadence and Synopsys tumbled in Wednesday trading after the Financial Times reported that the White House told them to stop selling to clients in China. Cadence stock declined nearly 11%, […]

Vice President JD Vance speaks at Bitcoin 2025, Wednesday, May 28, 2025, in Las Vegas. John Locker | AP LAS VEGAS — Vice President JD Vance used his position on stage at the biggest bitcoin conference of the year to push the Trump administration’s efforts on stablecoin legislation, touting its potential benefits to the U.S. […]

Elon Musk announced his new company xAI which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe.  Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk’s startup xAI is paying the Dubai-based messaging platform Telegram $300 million to roll out its Grok artificial intelligence chatbot, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced in a […]

Attendees view a Joby Aviation electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft during an event at Edwards Air Force Base in Edwards, California, US, on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. Air taxi start-up Joby Aviation Inc. today announced it has delivered its first eVTOL to the US Air Force.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Joby […]