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Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty Images At midnight on Tuesday, the moderators of the Reddit community r/Gaming decided to go dark. Dac Croach, who goes by username Dacvak, and the subreddit’s other leaders hit the private button, initiating a 48-hour shutdown for the group’s more than 37 million members, along with anyone else who

The Binance logo is displayed on a screen in San Anselmo, California, June 6, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Cryptocurrency exchange Binance said it will leave the Netherlands after the company’s application to register under the Dutch crypto authorization regime was rejected. Referring to a virtual asset service provider, Binance on Friday said that

In this article ETL-FR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT PARIS — Eutelsat is one of the biggest satellite companies in the world, but has faced declining revenue in its traditional businesses at a time when it is handling a huge acquisition and facing disruption from billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Eutelsat CEO Eva

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the company’s Build developer conference in Seattle, May 23, 2023. Microsoft Microsoft shares climbed to a record Thursday after analysts at JPMorgan Chase touted the software maker’s growth prospects in artificial intelligence. The stock rose 3.2% to close at $348.10, topping its prior all-time high reached in November 2021,

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images Elon Musk met with Italy’s Prime Minster Giorgia Meloni on Thursday and discussed the risks of artificial intelligence and birth rates, among other topics, the Italian leader tweeted Thursday. The Tesla CEO landed in

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, speaks with CNBC on May 16th, 2023. David A. Grogan | CNBC Twitter suspended the accounts of Plainsite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, a prolific Tesla and Elon Musk critic, on Tuesday afternoon. Plainsite is an online database that makes state and federal court filings and other public records available

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk gets in a Tesla car as he leaves a hotel in Beijing, China May 31, 2023. Tingshu Wang | Reuters Tesla’s share of the U.S. electric vehicles market will drop to 18% by 2026, Bank of America analysts estimated

Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images Twitter is a more dangerous social platform for LGBTQ users now than it was a year ago, according to a new survey from LGBTQ+ rights organization GLAAD. The group’s third annual Social Media Safety Index (SMSI) report finds a pullback and inconsistent enforcement of company policies addressing anti-LGBTQ online

Standard Chartered predicts that bitcoin could fall to $5,000 in 2023 as part of their research on potential market surprises next year. Nurphoto | Getty Images Cryptocurrency prices fell after the Federal Reserve’s June meeting, with bitcoin falling below $25,000 for the first time since March. On Thursday, bitcoin was lower by around 4% at

Zepz, which owns the WorldRemit and Sendwave brands, has a total headcount of around 1,600. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images LONDON — Zepz, the owner of money transfer firms WorldRemit and Sendwave, is on the hunt for mergers and acquisitions after cutting 26% of its workforce last month, the company’s CEO told CNBC.

Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, during the EEI 2023 event in Austin, Texas, US, on Monday, June 12, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft‘s co-founder Bill Gates will be meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday, Reuters reported Wednesday citing two sources familiar with the matter. The meeting

In this article 9868-HK XPEV Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pictured here is a six-lane road in a congested area of Beijing near Sanyuanqiao on April 15, 2023. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese electric car brand Xpeng announced Thursday it received approval to start rolling out assisted driving

Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, speaks at the Viva Tech fair in Paris, France, on Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Macron told CNBC that he thinks global regulation is needed for artificial intelligence. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty Images PARIS — France’s top politicians told CNBC they see the beginnings of global regulation on artificial intelligence

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 Oracle is having a moment. For years, the database software developer lagged behind tech rivals in building cloud technology that met the demands of the modern-day enterprise. But that’s changing,

California’s giant public pension fund is looking to increase its venture capital exposure in the coming months, despite a swoon in the startup market and lackluster performance of late by the fund’s VC portfolio. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or CalPERS, manages nearly $457 billion in assets as of April 2023. Anton Orlich, the

Generative AI has been a rare bright spot in a European tech market reeling from declining funding and a pullback in valuations. Yuichiro Chino | Moment | Getty Images The European Parliament has approved the bloc’s landmark rules for artificial intelligence, known as the EU AI Act, clearing a key hurdle for the first formal

Rep. Lou Correa, D-CA, questions witnesses during an impeachment inquiry hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Dec. 9, 2019. Doug Mills | Pool | Getty Images Rep. Lou Correa, D-Calif., who opposed a package of bills seeking to reform antitrust law to rein in Big Tech companies, will become

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT SpaceX, Twitter and electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk with France’s President Emmanuel Macron (L) at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on May 15, 2023. France has been looking to woo Musk and Tesla to set up a factory in the country. Michel

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during the Google I/O keynote session at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California on May 7, 2019. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Google’s mixed messaging when it comes to its return-to-office plans has been a subject of consternation

In this article MSFT GOOG GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Kent Walker speaks at a “Grow with Google” launch event in Cleveland. via Google  Google and OpenAI, two U.S. leaders in artificial intelligence, have opposing ideas about how the technology should be regulated by the government, a new filing reveals. Google on Monday