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Dado Ruvic | Reuters On Monday, Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek took over rival OpenAI’s coveted spot as the most-downloaded free app in the U.S. on Apple‘s App Store, dethroning ChatGPT for DeepSeek’s AI Assistant. Global tech stocks sold-off and were on pace to wipe out billions in market cap. Tech leaders, analysts, investors and

Photo illustration of TikTok app logo on a smartphone screen displayed with the American flag. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Perplexity AI on Sunday revised the merger proposal it had submitted to TikTok parent ByteDance. The proposal, which would create a new entity combining Perplexity and TikTok U.S., would now also allow for the

The logo of TP-Link appears on the products of router manufacturer TP-Link in Fuyang, China, on December 19, 2024. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images While the TikTok ban has lawmakers scurrying and chatter about Chinese influence over U.S. tech at a fever pitch, another danger is lurking. One

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet shares closed at $200 per share for the first time on Friday as investors grow increasingly bullish on the company’s opportunities in artificial intelligence. The stock gained 1.1% on Friday and

In this article TWLO Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Twilio CEO Khozema Shipchandler speaks at Twilio’s Signal event in Sao Paulo on Aug. 14, 2024. Courtesy: Twilio Twilio shares soared more than 20% on Friday and headed for their biggest gain since the early days of the Covid pandemic after the cloud communications software vendor

Thilina Kaluthotage | Nurphoto | Getty Images Meta will begin testing ads on its Threads microblogging service with a few companies in the U.S. and Japan, the company said in a blog post Friday. The experiment marks Meta’s first run at generating revenue from Threads. Meta launched the app in July 2023 to rival X,

In this article META GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A little-known AI lab out of China has ignited panic throughout Silicon Valley after releasing AI models that can outperform America’s best despite being built more cheaply and with less-powerful chips.  DeepSeek, as the lab is called, unveiled a free, open-source large-language model in

In this article TWLO Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Twilio CEO Khozema Shipchandler speaks at Twilio’s Signal event in Sao Paulo on Aug. 14, 2024. Courtesy: Twilio Cloud communications software maker Twilio on Thursday issued a hopeful profit forecast for the next few years. The company sees its adjusted operating margin widening to between

Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s competition regulator on Thursday launched an investigation into Apple and Google’s huge mobile ecosystems to determine whether the tech titans are in breach of the U.K.’s strict new digital competition rules. The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority said it was opening dual probes into both

In this article .FKRX300 Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT SK Hynix Inc. signage at the company’s office in Seongnam, South Korea, on Monday, April 22, 2024. SK Hynix is scheduled to release earnings figures on April 25. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images South Korea’s SK Hynix, one

In this article META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi. Databricks Data analytics software startup Databricks said Wednesday that Meta has signed on as an investor. As the company that trains the popular Llama open-source large language models, or LLMs, that Databricks builds on, Meta plays an important role

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT US President Donald Trump, from left, Larry Ellison, co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle Corp., Junichi Miyakawa, chief executive officer of SoftBank Corp., and Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Think about the apps you use on your phone every day. Studies have shown Americans use an average of 46 mobile apps each month to complete a variety of everyday tasks. Now imagine if you could combine all of those programs into a single, standalone

In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Bitcoin hit a new all-time high overnight after the incoming first couple launched a pair of meme coins and as traders await the inauguration of incoming President Donald Trump. On Monday the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by

Dado Ruvic | Reuters TikTok was available to some U.S. users on Sunday after President-elect Donald Trump said that he would sign an executive order on Monday following his inauguration to delay a federal ban of the app. In a statement on X, the company wrote that it would bring back access to its American

In this article TSM 2330-TW Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT TSMC Arizona’s first chip fab on November 7, 2024 Katie Tarasov U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has accused Taiwan of “stealing” his country’s chip industry. But Taiwan’s biggest chip company is confident the Trump administration will continue funding its projects in the U.S. Taiwan Semiconductor

An aerial view of repair vehicles at sunset passing near beachfront homes that burned in the Palisades Fire as wildfires cause damage and loss through the LA region on January 15, 2025 in Malibu, California.  Mario Tama | Getty Images Midway through December, tech entrepreneur Dan Preston debuted insurance startup Stand’s first product focused on

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Perplexity AI officially made a play for TikTok on Saturday, submitting a bid to its parent company, ByteDance, to allow Perplexity to merge with TikTok U.S. and create a new entity combining Perplexity, TikTok U.S. and New Capital Partners, CNBC has learned. The new structure would allow for

In this article JPM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., at the Institute of International Finance (IIF) during the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024.  Kent Nishimura | Bloomberg | Getty Images San Francisco,

Beata Zawrzel | Nurphoto | Getty Images TikTok said its services will go dark on Sunday without a guarantee from the Biden administration that it won’t punish Apple, Google and other service providers if they support the app. “Unless the Biden Administration immediately provides a definitive statement to satisfy the most critical service providers assuring