Intel will lose its place in the Dow Jones Industrial Average after a 25-year run with Nvidia, S&P Dow Jones Indices said on Friday, the latest blow to the struggling chipmaker that was among the first two technology firms to be included on the blue chip. index. Once the dominant force in chipmaking, Intel has […]
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Chip-making giant Nvidia is in talks with Elon Musk to invest in his fast-growing artificial intelligence startup xAI, a source close to the situation said. XAI — which powers the Grok chatbot on Musk’s X social network — is in talks with several investors to raise several billion dollars at a roughly $40 billion valuation,
Facebook owner Meta Platforms beat analysts’ estimates for third-quarter revenue and profit on Wednesday, but warned of “significant acceleration” in artificial intelligence-related infrastructure spending. The results sent mixed signals to investors about whether digital ad sales from Meta’s core social media business would continue to cover the cost of its massive AI build. Shares of
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Robotics company Boston Dynamics has released a new video of its Atlas humanoid robot – now performing tasks with zero human intervention. In the video released by the futuristic lab – the robot can be seen performing physical tasks by rote with ease and without any help from the humans driving it. The Atlas humanoid
More than 500 Amazon employees sent a letter Wednesday to the CEO of its AWS unit calling for the cancellation of a full back-to-office policy and refuting his assertion that the rule had broad support and opponents should leave Amazon Web Services. “We were horrified to hear the clueless explanation you gave for Amazon imposing
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A remarkable new device promises to make cancer detection cheaper, faster and more accessible than ever before. As described in an upcoming issue of Lab on a Chip, researchers at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) say they have developed a system that can detect cancer markers in the blood with greater responsiveness
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Eric Schmidt, the billionaire investor and former CEO of Google, said it’s time for the US military to ditch tanks, artillery and mortars in favor of aerial drones similar to the ones he’s building to help Ukraine. “I read somewhere that the US had thousands and thousands of tanks stored somewhere,” he told the Future
A union representing Google employees is demanding that the tech giant lift what it called an “illegal gag order” barring them from discussing landmark antitrust cases that could upend the company’s business. On August 5, US District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google is a “monopolist” with an illegal stranglehold on the Internet search market.
Elon Musk reportedly wants to build a secret family compound for two of the three mothers of his 11 children – although only one has so far agreed to move. The Tesla CEO has reportedly bought two large homes in a leafy section of Austin, Texas, within walking distance of each other — paying $35
Ford’s chief executive revealed that he drives a $30,000 electric sedan made in China — and was ripped off by critics, who called it a “slap in the face” for the Detroit-based automaker’s employees. Farley, who has been Ford’s CEO since October 2020, said he drives a Xiaomi SU7, an electric sedan that retails for