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A drone operator loads a Walmart package into Zipline's P1 fixed-wing drone for delivery to a customer home in Pea Ridge, Arkansas, on March 30, 2023.Bunee TomlinsonAutonomous delivery drone startup Zipline said Friday that it hit its 1 millionth delivery to customers and that it's eyeing restaurant partnerships in ...

Less than eight years after introducing the Snowmobile at its Reinvent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon has taken the 18-wheeler out of service. Amazon Web Services designed the semi to help customers move large amounts of data to the cloud.A page on the AWS website devoted to products for large-scale data migration ...

Google and Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023.Jose Luis Magana | APGoogle terminated 28 employees Wednesday, according to an internal memo viewed by CNBC, after a series of protests against labor conditions and the company's contract to provide the ...

Google employees protest in New York on April 17th, 2024.Courtesy: No Tech For ApartheidNine Google workers were arrested on trespassing charges Tuesday night after staging a sit-in at the company's offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, including a protest in Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office.The arre...

Tesla will ask shareholders to reapprove CEO Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package, months after a Delaware court found it deeply flawed and voided it.The company is also seeking to reincorporate in Texas as a direct result of the court decision.Musk has publicly and bitterly decried both the decision and continued in...

Top venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and Palantir advisor Jacob Helberg penned an open letter to the U.S. Senate calling on it to pass the so-called TikTok ban bill.Helberg and Khosla have regularly voiced their views on the dangers TikTok poses to the U.S., describing it as a "weapon of war."In an interview with CNB...

Apple is exploring the development of personal home robots after ditching its electric vehicle project, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.Engineers have been looking into a robot that can follow users around their homes, as well as a tabletop device that uses robotics to adjust a display screen, Bloomberg reported, citin...

The cuts affect hundreds of staffers in AWS' store technology and sales and marketing units.Sales growth in AWS' has decelerated in recent quarters as companies trimmed their cloud spend.A day earlier, Amazon said it would remove its cashierless checkout technology from its U.S. Fresh stores.Attendees walk through a...

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun said the standard version of the SU7 will sell for 215,900 yuan ($30,408) in the country — a price he acknowledged would mean the company was selling each car at a loss.Tesla's Model 3 starts at 245,900 yuan in China.Lei claimed the standard version of the SU7 beat the Model 3 on more than 90% of ...

Reddit shares are plummeting after experiencing a rally stemming from the social media company's IPO last week.Shares closed Thursday at $49.30, falling below their closing price on Reddit's first day of trading last week on the New York Stock Exchange. Earlier this week, Reddit disclosed in a corporate filing that ...

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesAmazon is making its largest outside investment in its three-decade history as it looks to gain an edge in the artificial intelligence race. The tech giant said it will spend another $2.75 billion backing Anthropic, a San Francisco-based startup that's widely viewed as a front...

Reddit mascot Snoo is seen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as Reddit begins trading in New York on March 21, 2024. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty ImagesOpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he has no equity in the $80 billion artificial intelligence startup he co-founded in 2015.His Reddit ownership is anoth...

Following the lead of companies like Airbnb and Rivian, Reddit is inviting some users to participate in its upcoming IPO. Reddit moderators told CNBC that they're declining the offer, citing lingering tensions with management and concerns over the company's business."It doesn't really feel like Reddit is necessarily...

In this photo illustration a Reddit logo is seen displayed on a smartphone.Mateusz Slodkowski | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesReddit, the 19-year-old website that hosts millions of online forums, priced its IPO on Wednesday at $34 a share, the top of the expected range.The offering brought in $519 million,...

In the 1990s, the UAE introduced a rain enhancement methodology called cloud seeding. Cloud seeding is the process of increasing the amount of rain produced from the clouds above, which is designed to improve water shortage issues in arid regions around the emirate. By the early 2000s, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Na...

Saudi Arabia's PIF has been on a buying spree as it seeks to diversify the kingdom's revenues away from oil.Andreessen Horowitz, with $35 billion in assets under management, has backed successful companies including AirBnB, Coinbase, Facebook and Slack, and has nearly 100 AI-related startups in its portfolio. PIF Ma...

Nvidia on Monday announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips and software for running AI models.The new AI graphics processors are named Blackwell and are expected to ship later this year. The announcement comes as companies and software makers still scramble to get their hands on the current generat...

Ambient clinical documentation was the talk of the HIMSS conference this year, where more than 30,000 health and tech professionals gathered in Orlando, Florida.The technology allows doctors to record conversations with patients to automatically turn them into clinical notes and summaries using AI.Companies like Mic...

The Google office in New York on February 2, 2023.Ed Jones | Afp | Getty ImagesAllison Croisant, a data scientist with about a decade of experience in technology, was laid off by PayPal earlier this year, joining the masses of unemployed across her industry. Croisant has one word to describe the process of looking f...

The European Union's parliament on Wednesday approved the world's first major set of regulatory ground rules to govern the mediatized artificial intelligence at the forefront of tech investment.Born in 2021, the EU AI Act divides the technology into categories of risk, ranging from "unacceptable" — which would see t...

Google fired an employee who disrupted an Israel executive's conference keynote this week, CNBC has learned.It's the latest sign of controversy at the company, which has struggled with employee dissent for several years.Google also prematurely shuttered an internal discussion forum ahead of a planned International W...

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...