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In 2008, California voted yes on a $9 billion bond authorization to build the nation’s first high-speed railway. The plan is to construct an electric train that will connect Los Angeles with the Central Valley and then San Francisco in two hours and 40 minutes. But 15 years later, there is not a single mile

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, on Oct. 19, 2021. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images Blockchain firm Ripple said Wednesday it has acquired Metaco, a Swiss firm that holds digital assets securely on behalf of clients, in a bid to expand its international footprint

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Google I/O Developers Conference in Mountain View, California, on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google’s new large language model, which the company announced last week, uses almost five

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed on Tuesday he is “the reason that OpenAI exists,” citing his past investment in the entity, and that Microsoft exerts control over the AI company, an assertion strongly denied by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. “I came up with the name,”

Elon Musk told CNBC’s David Faber on Tuesday that he doesn’t care if his inflammatory tweets scare advertisers away from Twitter. “I’ll say what I want, and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it,” said Musk, who owns Twitter. Musk replied defensively as Faber pressed him over a tweet Monday night

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tesla CEO Elon Musk sat down for a sprawling interview with CNBC anchor David Faber on Tuesday following Tesla’s 2023 annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas. During the course of their approximately hour long conversation, Musk reflected on: How he has managed a takeover of

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Silicon Valley “laptop classes” need to get off their “moral high horse” with their “work-from-home bulls***,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk told CNBC’s David Faber in a Tuesday interview. Musk was discussing return-to-office imperatives that have caused significant concern among tech workers in Silicon Valley and

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Tesla Inc. Gigafactory stands in Shanghai, China, on Friday, Nov. 1, 2019. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday that people ought to be worried about tension between the U.S. and China. The comments come a year after

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in an interview with CNBC’s David Faber on Tuesday that he believes the Fed was too slow to increase rates, and it will likely be too slow to lower them in the coming months. “My concern with the way the

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In an aerial view, Tesla Corporate Headquarters are seen on January 03, 2023 in Travis County, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Tesla just kicked off its 2023 annual shareholders meeting at its Austin, Texas factory, on Tuesday with shareholders voting to add former Tesla

The Voltpost team. Photo courtesy Voltpost and Google. Thursday marked the third Demo Day for the Google for Startups Accelerator: Climate Change program, where startups in the program presented the status of their startup, capping off 10 weeks of programming and mentorship from Google’s robust network of in-house experts, training, and credits to use Google

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple iPhone 14 Nic Coury | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ahead of its June WWDC event, Apple on Tuesday previewed a suite of accessibility features that will be coming “later this year” in its next big iPhone update. The new “Personal Voice” feature, expected in

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A person walks next to the Google Cloud logo at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain February 27, 2023. Nacho Doce | Reuters Google Cloud on Tuesday launched two new AI-powered tools that aim to help biotech and pharmaceutical companies accelerate drug discovery

In this article Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A man walks past an ad for the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 smartphone at the company’s Seocho building in Seoul on Jan. 31, 2023. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images Consumer tech giant Samsung is looking into launching a central bank digital currency in a

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT SpaceX, Twitter and electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk meets with France’s President Emmanuel Macron (L) at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on May 15, 2023.  Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent an email to “everybody” at

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft Source: Microsoft Microsoft announced on Monday that the latest version of Phone Link for Windows 11 PCs can receive notifications, send texts, and answer calls from a user’s paired iPhone. Most Americans use iPhones, and Apple’s integration across its products

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the E3 gaming convention in Los Angeles, California, June 13, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters Tesla CEO Elon Musk lost an appeal to unwind parts of a consent decree that he and the automaker struck with the

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A signboard mentions the plot number of Foxconn India production unit at SIPCOT (State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamilnadu) a special economic zone (SEZ) in Sriperumbudur on the outskirts of Chennai on December 28, 2021. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP) (Photo by ARUN SANKAR/AFP

Major players are hoping that the SEC and Washington takes, what crypto watchers see as bluffs, seriously and soften the hard line that regulators have taken on the industry. Roman Strelchenko | 500Px Plus | Getty Images Cryptocurrency companies are playing a game of poker with the Securities and Exchange Commission, making bold threats to

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sundar Pichai speaking at the Google I/O Developer’s Conference in Mountain View, Calif. on May 10, 2023. Courtesy: Google Google employees were paying close attention to the company’s annual developer conference this week as well as to Wall Street’s overwhelmingly positive reaction. When in it