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Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his security detail depart the company’s local office in Washington, January 27, 2023. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company Neuralink is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Transportation for allegedly packaging and transporting contaminated hardware in an unsafe manner, a DOT spokesperson confirmed to CNBC.  In

In this article NOV.N-CH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Novartis manufacturing associate checking punches at compressing machine. Source: Novartis In 2010, a volcano erupted in Iceland. For Dr. Oliver Sartor, a cancer research professor at the Tulane University School of Medicine, it was a problem.  Ash from the eruption disrupted flights across Europe —

In this article GS GSBD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Last year’s havoc in the cryptocurrencies space has allowed for a “flight to quality” among crypto investors, Mathew McDermott, Goldman Sachs’ global head of digital assets, said on CNBC’s “Crypto World” on Friday. “We do have a crypto trading desk at the firm,” he

In this article MSFT GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google employees are criticizing leadership, most notably CEO Sundar Pichai, for the way the company handled the announcement this week of its ChatGPT competitor called Bard. Staffers took to the popular internal forum Memegen to express their thoughts on the Bard announcement, referring to

In this article AMZN META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., left, arrives at federal court in San Jose, California, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022.  David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images For Matthew Hassett’s smart alarm clock company Loftie, the 2022 holiday shopping

In this article MSFT GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Microsoft founder-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates smiles during the Global Investment Summit at the Science Museum in London on October 19, 2021. Leon Neal | AFP | Getty Images Improvements in artificial intelligence are the “most important” innovation at the moment, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said

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 Hester Peirce of the Securities and Exchange Commission publicly rebuked her agency’s crypto enforcement, calling it “paternalistic and lazy” and asking if a “hostile” regulator is the

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A driver uses the map navigation feature on a touchscreen control panel just prior to the Tesla Motors Inc. 8.0 software update inside a Model S P90D vehicle in New York, U.S., on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. Christopher Goodney | Bloomberg | Getty Images The

In this article AFRM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Affirm announced it’s cutting 19% of its workforce Wednesday. The news came as it reported second quarter earnings that fell below analyst estimates on both the top and bottom lines. Shares were down more than 17% after hours. related investing news Goldman Sachs likes Pinterest

Uber reported fourth-quarter earnings Wednesday that beat analysts’ estimates. Shares were up about 2.5%. Here’s how the company did: Earnings per share: 29 cents vs. 18 cent loss expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. Revenue: $8.6 billion vs. $8.49 billion expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. related investing news Bank of America double upgrades Tripadvisor,

Ebay on Tuesday announced plans to cut 500 jobs, or about 4% of its workforce, according to a filing with the SEC. Shares of eBay were up slightly in extended trading Tuesday. In a memo to employees, CEO Jamie Iannone said the company decided to make cuts after examining the global macroeconomic environment over the

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Billionaire Ron Baron was promised he would make “two to three times” his money when he invested $100 million in Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s take-private deal for Twitter, Baron said Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Baron has long been bullish on Tesla, telling CNBC’s Becky

In this article GOOGL GOOG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees Monday the company is going to need all hands on deck to test Bard, its new ChatGPT rival. He also said Google will soon be enlisting help from partners to test an application programming interface, or API, that

In this article DELL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Dell CEO Michael Dell delivers a keynote address during the 2013 Oracle Open World conference on September 25, 2013 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Dell on Monday announced plans to lay off 5% of its workforce, or about 6,650 employees, according

In this article TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk Twitter account displayed on a phone screen and Twitter logo displayed on a screen in the background are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on November 22, 2022. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Twitter CEO Elon Musk said

The exterior of “The Wormhole” factory. Relativity Space LONG BEACH, California – It was a few days into the new year yet Relativity Space’s factory was anything but quiet, a din of activity with massive 3D printers humming and the clanging of construction ringing out. Now about eight years on from its founding, Relativity continues

In this article AMZN MSFT GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco on June 8, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images As growth in traditional tech equipment and software slowed to a trickle in recent years, cloud computing gobbled

In this article AMD AMZN META AAPL GOOGL .IXIC INTC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tech stocks on display at the Nasdaq. Peter Kramer | CNBC The Nasdaq just wrapped up its fifth straight week of gains, jumping 3.3% over the last five days. It’s the longest weekly winning streak for the tech-laden index

In this article GOOG AAPL AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Andrew Ross Sorkin speaks with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy during the New York Times DealBook Summit in the Appel Room at the Jazz At Lincoln Center on November 30, 2022 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Shares of Amazon

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks during the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico. Susana Gonzalez | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bill Gates questioned whether Elon Musk’s current priorities would make him a good philanthropist, taking issue with his fellow billionaire’s ambition to send people to Mars. In an interview with the BBC, set to