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Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng remains committed to Europe for the long term despite pressure it faces from the European Union’s tariffs, according to a top company official. “Our plan for Europe is a very long term one,” Brian Gu, Xpeng’s vice chairman and co-president, told CNBC’s Charlotte Reed Monday at the Paris Motor Show.

Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, speaks during an event in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 2, 2024. Annabelle Chih | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia shares closed at a record on Monday as Wall Street gears up for earnings season and updates from all of the chipmaker’s top customers on their planned spending on

Microsoft on Thursday announced new health-care data and artificial intelligence tools, including a collection of medical imaging models, a health-care agent service and an automated documentation solution for nurses.  The tools aim to help health-care organizations build AI applications quicker and save clinicians time on administrative tasks, a major cause of industry burnout. Nurses spend

Bret Taylor, co-CEO of Salesforce, speaks at the Viva Technology Conference in Paris on June 15, 2022. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bret Taylor, board chairman of OpenAI, joined CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Thursday to discuss his artificial intelligence startup Sierra. Taylor co-founded Sierra in March 2023. The startup aims to

After a decade of unfulfilled promises about driverless vehicles, Tesla CEO Elon Musk hyped the company’s Cybercab concept on Thursday night, showing off a low, silver two-seater with no steering wheels or pedals. Rolling up to the stage in a Cybercab almost an hour after the company’s “We, Robot” event was supposed to begin, Musk

In this photo illustration, a Core Weave logo is displayed on a smartphone with stock market percentages on the background. Omar Marques | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images CoreWeave, an Nvidia-backed artificial intelligence startup that rents out chips to other companies, announced Friday that it has a new $650 million credit line to

Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 20, 2024. Ramsey Cardy | Sportsfile | Collision | Getty Images AI chipmaker Cerebras is trying to be the first major venture-backed tech company to go public in the U.S. since April and to capitalize on investors’ insatiable

Tesla unveils its “Cybercab” on October 10, 2024 in Burbank, California. Source: Tesla  Tesla shares closed down nearly 9% on Friday after the electric vehicle company’s long-awaited robotaxi event failed to impress investors. CEO Elon Musk unveiled the firm’s Cybercab self-driving concept car — a low, silver two-seater, with no steering wheels or pedals — on

Zahra Bahrololoumi, CEO of U.K. and Ireland at Salesforce, speaking during the company’s annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, California, on Sept. 17, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — The UK chief executive of Salesforce wants the Labor government to regulate artificial intelligence — but says it’s important that policymakers

AMD launched a new artificial intelligence chip on Thursday that is taking direct aim at Nvidia’s data center graphics processors, known as GPUs. The Instinct MI325X, as the chip is called, will start production before the end of 2024, AMD said Thursday during an event announcing the new product. If AMD’s AI chips are seen

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images   U.S. blockchain startup Ripple made a major foray into crypto custody on Thursday, launching new services aimed at helping banks and financial technology firms to store digital assets on behalf of clients. The San Francisco-based company told CNBC it is debuting a slew of features to enable

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presents “Blackwell” at an event ahead of the Computex forum, in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 2, 2024. Ann Wang | Reuters Nvidia shares have surged 25% in the last month and are closing in on a record ahead of tech earnings season in the coming weeks, when top customers like Meta,

U.S. Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter speaks about the antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment during a press conference as Attorney General Merrick Garland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco look on during a press conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, U.S., May 23, 2024. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno Ken Cedeno | Reuters The

Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images American Water, the largest water utility in the U.S., disclosed that it had been hit by a cyberattack. The Camden, New Jersey-based company said in a security statement on its website that it had learned of “unauthorized activity in our computer networks and systems” last Thursday, which

Chairman of Foxconn Young Liu delivers a speech during the Hon Hai Tech Day in Taipei on Oct. 18, 2023. I-hwa Cheng | AFP | Getty Images The boom in corporate investment into artificial intelligence infrastructure still has some way to go as large language models are continuing to evolve, according to the CEO of

Character actors from the Epic Games Fortnite video game dance during the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles on June 12, 2019. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images A U.S. judge issued a permanent injunction on Monday that will force Google to offer alternatives to its Google Play store for downloading apps on