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A New Jersey man was arrested on charges for allegedly trafficking 675 SpaceX Starlink terminals purchased with stolen credit card accounts or hacked Starlink billing accounts, police said.Kelvin Rodriguez-Moya of Newark was stopped by police Dec. 4 while driving 223 Starlink terminals in a pickup truck and trailer ...

Shane Jones, who's worked at Microsoft for six years, has been testing the company's AI image generator in his free time and told CNBC he is disturbed by his findings.He's warned Microsoft of the sexual and violent content that the product, Copilot Designer, is creating, but said the company isn't taking appropriate...

Google's Sergey Brin spoke to a roomful of entrepreneurs over the weekend at the "AGI House" in Hillsborough, California.Brin said Google "definitely messed up," referring to the company's faulty Gemini image generation launch earlier this month.Regarding changes in the search business, Brin said, "As long as there’...

Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesAnthropic on Monday debuted Claude 3, a suite of artificial intelligence models that it says are its fastest and most powerful yet. The new tools are called Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet and Haiku.The company said the most capable of the new models, Claude 3 Opus, outperformed OpenAI...

In this photo illustration, the Reddit logo is displayed on a cell phone and computer monitor on February 13, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty ImagesReddit is seeking a valuation of up to $6.5 billion in its upcoming IPO, according to a person familiar with the matter.The company plans to price it...

Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake, on the day of the company's initial public offering on Sept. 16, 2020.CNBCSnowflake said Wednesday that billionaire CEO Frank Slootman, who joined the cloud software company in 2019 and took it public the following year, is retiring and will be replaced by former Google ad chief Sri...

TechPublished Wed, Feb 28 20244:10 PM ESTWATCH LIVEEA announced Wednesday that it will cut 5% of its workforce.The video game company employed 13,400 workers as of the end of March last year, according to its most recent annual filing with the SEC, meaning the layoffs may affect about 670 jobs."We are also sunsettin...

Bumble announced plans to lay off about 350 employees as part of its fourth-quarter earnings report Tuesday.The company said the layoffs will help drive stronger operating leverage and align its operating model with "future strategic priorities."Bumble CEO Lidiane Jones said the company is taking "significant and de...

In a memo Tuesday evening, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the company’s artificial intelligence mistakes, which led to Google taking its Gemini image-generation feature offline for further testing.Pichai called the issues “problematic” and said they “have offended our users and shown bias.” The news was first re...

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan speaks during the New York Times annual DealBook Summit in New York City on Nov. 29, 2023.Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesFederal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan cited the surging stock prices of Nvidia and Arm as an example of how blocking mergers can lead to increased in...

Xiaomi is putting a premium price on its first electric car because it already has about 20 million users in that segment, Group President Weibing Lu told CNBC.The company has generally been known for more affordably priced products. That's raised doubts about whether it can sell an electric car – promoted as a riva...

Apple CEO Tim Cook, left, and Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of services attend the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 10, 2019.Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMicrosoft offered to sell its Bing search engine to Apple in 2018, Google said in a court filing ...

Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesAfter pulling its artificial intelligence image generation tool on Thursday due to a string of controversies, Google plans to relaunch the product soon, according to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis.Google introduced the image generator earlier this month through Gemini, t...

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and X, speaks at the Atreju political convention organized by Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy), in Rome, Dec. 15, 2023.Antonio Masiello | Getty ImagesThe House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party sent a letter on Saturday to Elon Musk demanding that U.S. troops stationed in T...

Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesSocial media company Reddit filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday after a yearslong run-up. The company plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "RDDT."Reddit said it had $804 million in annual sales fo...

A patient implanted with Neuralink's brain technology can now control a computer mouse just by thinking, the company's founder Elon Musk said.The billionaire's startup says it has developed a brain implant to help humans use their neural signals to control external technologies.Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla, sa...

The X social media platform on Tuesday restored the account of Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, after a brief suspension.It was not immediately clear why Navalnaya's account was suspended in the first place.Upon contacting the X press team, CNBC received an automated response o...

SpaceX has filed to move its incorporation location to Texas from Delaware, according to public filings with the Texas Secretary of State. The move follows a Delaware Chancery Court ruling that ordered Tesla to rescind Elon Musk's 2018 CEO pay package, worth about $56 billion in options. Musk voiced a strong prefere...

Paramount Global announced Tuesday it is laying off about 800 employees, or roughly 3% of its workforce, according to a person familiar with the matter.Paramount Global, which owns CBS, said Monday that the network set record highs for Super Bowl viewership.Bakish warned of impending layoffs in an internal note sent...

Aware, an AI firm specializing in analyzing employee messages, said companies including Walmart, Delta, T-Mobile, Chevron and Starbucks have hired it to track sentiment and weed out toxicity.Aware said its data repository contains messages that represent about 20 billion individual interactions across more than 3 mi...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is seeking trillions of dollars in investments to overhaul the global semiconductor industry, The Wall Street Journal reported.Altman has long talked of the supply-and-demand problem with AI chips — many AI giants want them, but there aren't enough to go around — and that it limits OpenAI's gro...

Meta's Reality Labs unit brought in more than $1 billion in fourth-quarter sales but recorded an operating loss of $4.65 billion.The company's heavy spending on the metaverse comes as Apple jumps into the market with its Vision Pro headset, which is slated to debut Friday.The VR and AR market saw a 40% sales drop in...

Elon Musk — the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X, formerly Twitter — speaks during the New York Times annual DealBook summit in New York City, Nov. 29, 2023.Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesA Delaware judge on Tuesday voided the $56 billion pay package of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, ruling that the company's board o...

TechPublished Sat, Jan 27 20246:37 AM ESTUpdated Sat, Jan 27 20248:18 AM ESTUS President Joe Biden speaks at a meeting of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, in the Indian Treaty Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 13, 2023.Jim Watson | AFP | Getty ImagesThe Biden administration is expec...