Things have never been better for Shopify. The e-commerce firm’s stock is trading near all-time highs. And a recent deal with OpenAI has put Shopify in a position to capitalize on AI-fueled shopping by easily allowing its merchants to sell products through ChatGPT. And yet Shopify is seeing the kind of executive turnover normally associated with companies that are struggling. Read more ›
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Amazon has expanded its ultra-cheap Temu competitor, Amazon Haul, to the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia, the company said on Tuesday. Amazon first launched Haul in the U.S. in November, part of an effort to respond to the rise of discount online retailers Temu and Shein. In February, The ... Read more ›
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On Friday, Amazon sent many merchants selling goods on its e-commerce site a memo with pointers on how to navigate trade uncertainty amid steep U.S. tariffs. Suggestions included pivoting to selling in new countries and reshuffling inventory to different warehouses. Amazon also suggested merchants consider taking out loans, giving them funds to “invest in the areas of your business that make sense for you,” wrote Dharmesh Mehta, a senior executive... Read more ›
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Uber has partnered with Chinese robotaxi company Pony AI to offer autonomously driven rides on Uber’s ride-hailing app. The two will initially launch in a city in the Middle East and have goals to expand to other countries. In the duo’s initial pilot phase, the robotaxis will have safety drivers ... Read more ›
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We’ve written a lot about the possibility that consumers could soon use ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots for tasks like booking travel or ordering food, depriving app developers of ad revenue and eroding their relationship with customers.But Glenn Fogel, CEO of Booking Holdings, which generates more than $20 billion in revenue a year from travel bookings, says he isn’t sold on AI as the future of travel planning even... Read more ›
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The government wants Google to sell two of its advertising technology businesses as a remedy to a Virginia court’s April ruling that Google operates a monopoly in the buying and selling of advertising on independent websites. In a court filing late Monday night, the Department of Justice argued ... Read more ›
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Gummy supplement startup Grüns announced a new round of funding valuing the company at $500 million, confirming an earlier report from The Information. The share sale totaled $35 million and includes new investor Headline, a consumer-focused firm that has previously backed Bumble, Gopuff and ... Read more ›
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Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled new PCs from its Surface line that it says can run its AI “Copilot” features without an internet connection. The models are up to 20% cheaper than the last iteration of the AI-specialized Surface devices that Microsoft released last year, in part because they rely ... Read more ›
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Amazon has made it easier to purchase books through the Kindle iOS app, after a federal judge ordered Apple last week to let app developers offer ways to buy products outside of the iPhone maker’s app store. Customers that wanted to buy a Kindle book previously had to navigate themselves to the ... Read more ›
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Food company Wonder has raised $600 million from investors including NEA and Accel, CEO Marc Lore said on Tuesday, bringing its total money raised to more than $2 billion. Wonder plans to use the money to expand its operations beyond the New York metro area, including by opening more of its ... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s decision on Monday to change course on its corporate restructuring looks to be a smart business choice. OpenAI has avoided a possible protracted conflict with Delaware—whose attorney general oversees nonprofits registered in the state, like OpenAI and implied she had something to do with the about-face. And OpenAI contends the changes it is still making—converting the for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation and switching its shareholders’ profit-sharing units... Read more ›
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As the latest phase of the antitrust legal battle that could reshape Google’s business nears a conclusion, the tech giant seems likely to emerge battered but not broken up. Two weeks into a three-week trial meant to decide how Google should be overhauled to curb its search monopoly—which a judge found last August violated antitrust law—the judge, Amit Mehta, has signaled support for forcing Google to share its search data... Read more ›
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DoorDash finalized a deal to buy British restaurant meal and grocery delivery firm Deliveroo for 2.9 billion pounds, or $3.8 billion at current exchange rates, deepening the delivery firm’s European presence. At the same time, DoorDash announced a $1.2 billion purchase of software firm ... Read more ›
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A U.S. lawmaker plans to introduce new legislation to track the location of artificial intelligence chips, particularly those from Nvidia, Reuters reported. The initiative aims to address concerns that Nvidia’s chips, essential for developing advanced AI systems, continue to reach China on a ... Read more ›
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Ride-hailing platform Uber and Chinese robotaxi company WeRide are expanding their partnership to 15 more cities in the next five years, according to Uber. The two companies started a robotaxi service earlier this year in Abu Dhabi and have plans to launch later this year in Dubai. Uber has made ... Read more ›
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Elon Musk might have won the battle over OpenAI’s future, but who’s to say Sam Altman isn’t going to win the war? Today’s announcement by the ChatGPT creator that it was abandoning plans to move its for-profit arm out from under control of the nonprofit—conceding to Musk’s legal efforts to stop the restructuring—could end up cementing Altman’s power at OpenAI. After all, OpenAI will remain a company whose controlling shareholder... Read more ›
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After a yearslong slump in the initial public offering market, 2025 was poised to be the year exits made a comeback, with many big companies in tech and artificial intelligence—including Databricks, Chime, StubHub and Klarna—primed to hit the exchange and deliver a long-anticipated return on investment. All of that was before Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff whims ushered in a state of stasis, effectively putting IPOs on pause. At a recent... Read more ›
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Palantir said Monday that first-quarter revenue rose 39% year over year to $884 million, fueled by strong demand from U.S. businesses and government agencies for its data-analytics software. U.S. commercial revenue grew 71% to $255 million, while U.S. government revenue grew 45% to $373 million. ... Read more ›
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Databricks is in talks to acquire startup Neon, which rents access to a cloud database service that’s designed for AI agents and applications, for around $1 billion, the technology news site Upstarts reported. The talks are the latest sign of Databricks’ push to get customers to build AI ... Read more ›
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OpenAI Chair Bret Taylor said Monday that the artificial intellingence firm will no longer move its for-profit arm, which develops ChatGPT, out from under the control of a nonprofit board. Taylor said OpenAI reversed course after conversations with the attorneys general of Delaware and ... Read more ›
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Trading platform eToro said Monday it’s launching the roadshow for its initial public offering, making it one of the first companies to move forward with their listing plans after tariff-induced market turmoil froze the IPO market last month. The Israel-based company and its shareholders ... Read more ›
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