Comcast and the International Olympic Committee have signed a multi-year extension for NBCUniversal to exclusively air the Olympic games in the U.S. through 2036. The new deal, which the organizations said is valued at $3 billion, covers the 2034 Winter Olympics and the 2036 Summer Olympics. The ... Read more âș
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Convincing professionals, software engineers and other application developers to open their wallets for new artificial intelligence that speeds up their work seems easier than ever. But selling AI to large enterprises is a different ballgame. That was painfully clear this week at the first annual HumanX conference in Las Vegas, which brought together founders, venture capitalists and executives from major businesses like Visa and Moderna. Read more âș
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Representatives of President Donald Trumpâs family held talks to take a stake in Binance.US., the American entity of crypto exchange Binance, while Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has been pushing for a pardon, the Wall Street Journal reported. Binance reached out to Trumpâs allies last year ... Read more âș
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff last month declared 2025 as the âabsolute year of Agentforce,â a product the software company launched last fall to help customers automate customer service and other business functions. âWeâve never seen products grow at these levels, especially Agentforce,â he said, citing customers such as gym owner Equinox and reservation site OpenTable. Read more âș
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The excitement around reasoning models like OpenAIâs o1 and DeepSeekâs R1 got me thinking: How much are businesses actually using them? The answer might be: not as much as youâd think.When I ask business executives at startups and large firms about their companiesâ usage of reasoning models to power their products, a common refrain Iâve heard is that these models, which spend extra time to process (or âthinkâ) about the... Read more âș
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Oracle has emerged as a leading contender to help run TikTok as part of a deal President Donald Trump is orchestrating to satisfy last yearâs divest-or-ban law, say investors, bankers and former executives familiar with the Chinese tech giant. ByteDance management prefers Oracle, while President Trump has also indicated his support for Oracle playing a key role. At the same time, though, ByteDanceâs leaders want to retain a hands-on role... Read more âș
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Alibaba Group said Thursday that it will overhaul its Quark artificial intelligence search app for consumers in China and turn it into a broader all-purpose assistant powered by the companyâs own Qwen AI models. Alibaba, a leader in Chinaâs market for enterprise AI models and apps for ... Read more âș
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If you want a sense of the risks that lurk in the great AI-data center investment boom now underway, check out our scoop today about Nvidiaâs relationship with CoreWeave, the upstart cloud computing firm planning to go public in a couple of weeks. The story reveals that Nvidia, beyond both investing in CoreWeave and selling chips to it, also agreed two years ago to spend $1.3 billion over several years... Read more âș
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The Federal Trade Commission is continuing its broad antitrust probe into Microsoft that it opened last year, and has in recent weeks met with representatives of other companies to ask about Microsoftâs conduct, according to someone involved in the discussions. The move indicates that FTC ... Read more âș
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Influencer marketing budgets are still expected to grow in the U.S., but the fate of TikTokâs future in the country, as well as economic uncertainty spurred by the Trump administrationâs tariffs, could contribute to a slowdown in growth this year. Spending on U.S. influencer marketing is expected to rise 15% to $10.5 billion in 2025, representing a significant growth slowdown from last year, when spending rose nearly 24%, according to... Read more âș
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The groups of buyers circling TikTokâs U.S. operations are likely to find it a more svelte company than it was a year ago, after a string of senior managers left the popular video app. At least eight TikTok executives, including music chief Ole Obermann, global head of litigation Emily Stubbs and Sameer Singh, head of North American ad sales, have left TikTok or announced their departures since the beginning of... Read more âș
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission asked a judge on Wednesday to delay the start of a trial in its case alleging that Amazon unlawfully tricked people into signing up for Prime subscriptions, then withdrew the request later in the day. In a Seattle federal court hearing on Wednesday, the FTC ... Read more âș
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Intel named former Cadence Design Systems chief Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO, sending its stock up 12%. The appointment follows the departure of Pat Gelsinger as CEO in December as it struggled to compete in the market for artificial intelligence chips and its stock price tanked. Tan had stepped ... Read more âș
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Google on Wednesday announced two new artificial intelligence models to power robots, built on top of its most recent main Gemini model. In a press release, Google said that one of the models combines vision, language and physical action capabilities; the other has advanced spatial ... Read more âș
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Niantic, the creator of PokĂ©mon Go, is selling its games business to the Saudi-owned mobile developer Scopely for $3.5 billion. In addition, Niantic shareholders will receive $350 million in cash from Nianticâs balance sheet as part of the deal. As part of the transaction, Niantic is spinning ... Read more âș
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Binance, the worldâs biggest crypto exchange, announced it has received a $2 billion investment from MGX, an Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund. The minority stake in Binance marks the first crypto bet by MGX, which has invested in artificial intelligence startups including OpenAI and ... Read more âș
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Marc Loreâs food delivery company Wonder has acquired the media company Tastemade for $90 million, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Tastemade, which produces food, travel and home videos, had raised more than $130 million from investors including Amazon, Comcast and Goldman Sachs, ... Read more âș
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BNY, the nationâs oldest bank, is expanding the services it handles for stablecoin giant Circle, the latest sign that U.S. banking access for the crypto industry is easing under a friendlier regulatory environment. The bank will allow some clients to send money to and from Circle through BNY for purchase or sale of Circleâs stablecoins, people with knowledge of the development said. Previously, Circleâs clients had to use smaller banks... Read more âș
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Humanoid robots that walk around on two legs have been attracting attention and money, but they are still a long way off from being mass produced. Traditional robots that donât have legs, however, are moving ahead in places like agricultural fields, stores and warehouses.One example is Mech, an artificial intelligence-powered robot for logistics jobs unveiled this week by Dexterity, a startup founded by seven Stanford University-educated engineers. On Tuesday, the... Read more âș
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In early 2023, Nvidia was seeing near-endless demand for its artificial intelligence chips. Cloud computing giants such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud were increasing their orders, sending Nvidiaâs revenue to new heights. Developers were scrambling to access the chips, which were hard to come by. Then Nvidia made a curious move: It agreed to spend $1.3 billion over four years to rent its own chips from... Read more âș
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