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Dr. Marc Harrison, who’s now CEO of HATCo, speaking at the Healthy Returns conference in New York City on May 21, 2019. Astrid Stawiarz | CNBC Dr. Marc Harrison is a different kind of venture capitalist. He’s not looking for the next Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk. He’s not hanging out at startup demo days.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta on Dec. 11, 2023. Dustin Chambers | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI executives disputed claims Elon Musk laid out in a lawsuit on Thursday, and said the Tesla CEO is upset that he’s no longer part of the artificial intelligence startup.

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Passengers ride in an electric Waymo full self-driving technology in Santa Monica Allen J. Schaben | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Alphabet’s Waymo robotaxi unit won approval from the California Public Utilities Commission to expand service to parts of Los Angeles and the Bay

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. Denis Balibouse | Reuters Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, among others, alleging they abandoned the company’s founding mission to develop artificial intelligence “for the benefit of humanity broadly.”

Signage at a Byju’s Tuition Center, operated by Think & Learn Pvt., in Mumbai, India, on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. A unit of Byju’s, once one of India’s hottest tech startups, was put into bankruptcy in the US by a court-appointed agent who took over the shell company after it defaulted on $1.2 billion in

Startup Figure AI is developing general-purpose humanoid robots. Figure AI Figure AI, a startup working to build humanoid robots that can perform dangerous and undesirable jobs, just got a big vote of confidence from some of the largest names in artificial intelligence. The company said Thursday that it raised $675 million at a $2.6 billion

Close-up gloved hands holding detail microchip Wong Yu Liang | Moment | Getty Images Semiconductor firms such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company are at risk of water shortages as processing technology advances, S&P Global Ratings said in a report. Semiconductor chips are found in everyday consumer devices from smartphones to TVs. TSMC is the world’s

U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet with (L-R) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), on February 27, 2024 at the White House in Washington, DC. Roberto Schmidt | Getty Images U.S. President Joe Biden

Honor already has a number of smartphones on the market that fold like a book, such as the Magic V2 that was launched in July 2023 shown here. The Chinese tech company is now preparing to launch a vertical-folding style smartphone, its CEO George Zhao told CNBC at the Mobile World Congress. Honor BARCELONA —

In this article C Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Arvind Jain, co-founder and CEO of Glean, makes a selfie with employees of the startup, which is based in Palo Alto, Calif. Glean Artificial intelligence startup Glean attracted tech companies Databricks and Workday into its latest investment round. The Silicon Valley company also reeled in

Motorola’s “adapative display concept” smartphone can wrap around a user’s wrist. The phone can generative a background to match what a user is wearing.  Arjun Kharpal | CNBC BARCELONA, Spain — Motorola thinks we may be wearing our phones on our wrist in future. The company, which is owned by Chinese tech giant Lenovo, showed

In this article NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jensen Huang speaks onstage during The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2023 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on November 29, 2023 in New York City. Slaven Vlasic | Getty Images Nvidia briefly surpassed $2 trillion in market cap during intraday trading Friday following the company’s

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will be in a position to make millions after Reddit goes public, thanks to a series of bets on the online discussion board company that go back

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks in conversation with Emily Chang during the APEC CEO Summit at Moscone West on November 16, 2023 in San Francisco, California. The APEC summit is being held in San Francisco and runs through November 17. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Munich, GERMANY — Rapid developments in

A attendee walks past a banner with a Grab logo before a bell-ringing ceremony as Grab begins trading on the Nasdaq, in Singapore, on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. Ore Huiying | Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Grab posted its first-ever profitable quarter, raking in $11 million in profit, the Southeast Asian ride-hailing giant said

In this article T Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A worker climbs on a cellular communication tower in Oakland, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images A cellular outage early on Thursday hit thousands of AT&T users in the United States, disrupting calls and text messages as well as emergency services in major cities including

In this article SQ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc. and Square Inc., listens during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, on Friday, June 4, 2021. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images Block stock rose as much as 14% in extended trading

Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty Images Social media company Reddit filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday after a yearslong run-up. The company plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “RDDT.” Reddit said it had $804 million in annual sales for 2023, up

Voahangy Rasetarinera speaks on San Jose bakery loss of thousands of dollars after Tesla cancels large order. Kris Sanchez | NBC Bay Area A catering contract to celebrate Black Heritage Month turned into a tough lesson for a Black-owned bakery in the South Bay earlier this month. What started as a $16,000 deal ended up

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Betul Abali | Anadolu | Getty Images Google on Thursday announced it is pausing its Gemini artificial intelligence image generation feature after saying it offers “inaccuracies” in historical pictures. Users on social media had been complaining that the AI tool generates images of historical figures