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Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss (L-R), co-founders of crypto exchange Gemini, on stage at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the billionaire twins known for suing Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly stealing their idea for Facebook, are investing millions of dollars into a small English soccer

Semiconductors are a key focus in the technology trade war taking place between the U.S. and China. William_potter | Istock | Getty Images Shares of Advanced Micro Devices and Intel dipped on Friday after The Wall Street Journal reported that China is ordering the country’s largest telecommunications carriers to cease use of foreign chips. Chinese

The U.S. government is considering laws to help society adapt to the introduction of artificial intelligence. Early users of the technology are already seeing labor productivity gains. For example, Klarna, a buy now, pay later financial services provider, estimates that its AI assistant tool will increase its profit outcome by $40 million by the end

The eponymous sign outside Epic headquarters in Verona, Wisconsin. Source: Yiem via Wikipedia CC Epic Systems, the largest provider of software for managing medical records, says a venture-backed startup called Particle Health is using patient data in unauthorized and unethical ways that have nothing to do with treatment. Epic told customers in a notice on

Yu Chun Christopher Wong | S3studio | Getty Images Just a few years ago, the bitcoin halving was something celebrated by only the earliest cryptocurrency lovers, who swore by it as a core feature of a revolutionary, anti-establishment deflationary asset. Now, bitcoin has been embraced by the biggest institutions on Wall Street and continues to

Apple CEO Tim Cook greets customers as he arrives for the release of the Vision Pro headset at the Apple Store in New York City on Feb. 2, 2024. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images Apple shares climbed 4.3% on Thursday to a share price of $175.04. It is Apple’s best day since May

Rick Osterloh, Google’s senior vice president, Devices & Services, speaks during a product launch event for the Google Pixel 8, and Pixel 8 pro phones, Pixel Watch 2, and Pixel Buds Pro earbuds, in New York on October 4, 2023. Ed Jones | Afp | Getty Images Google announced Wednesday that it will make several

Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder and chief executive officer of Inflection AI UK Ltd., speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft will reveal brand-new artificial intelligence tools for use on PCs and in the cloud at its annual Build conference, according to a

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang displays products onstage during the annual Nvidia GTC Conference at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, on March 18, 2024. Josh Edelson | Afp | Getty Images Chipmaking giant Nvidia has entered “correction territory,” with shares now down 10% from all-time highs. The company, which makes graphics processing

Google is trying to make cloud computing more affordable with a custom-built Arm-based server chip. At its Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, the company said the new processor will become available later in 2024. With the new Arm-based chip, Google is playing catch-up with rivals such as Amazon and Microsoft, which have

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images PARIS — Issuers of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds on Tuesday say the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is unlikely to approve such a product for the cryptocurrency ether. The regulator has a late-May deadline to conclude its review on an ether ETF. That comes after the SEC in March delayed

Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, speaks at the 2022 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 4, 2022.  Mike Blake | Reuters The CEO of blockchain startup Ripple sees the combined market capitalization of the cryptocurrency market topping $5 trillion this year. Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse told CNBC he expects the entire value

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo testifies during the House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing titled “Chips on the Table: A one year review of the CHIPS and Science Act,” in the Rayburn Building in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 19, 2023. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images TSMC‘s Arizona subsidiary is

Larry Ellison, Oracle’s chairman and technology chief, speaks at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on September 16, 2019. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Every tech company is talking up its AI opportunity. Oracle is no exception. But during an earnings call in March, Oracle’s Larry Ellison laid out a future market opportunity focused

Photo Illustrating Coinbase in Suqian, Jiangsu Province, China on June 6, 2023 (Photo Illustration by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Coinbase has been granted a registration license in Canada, the company told CNBC, allowing it to make deeper inroads abroad as it faces a regulatory crackdown in its U.S. home

Apple is laying off 614 workers in California, according to a new state filing, the company’s first significant round of job cuts since the Covid pandemic. The affected Apple employees worked at eight different facilities in Santa Clara, according to the WARN notice posted by California. The workers were officially informed of the cuts on