The European Commission on Monday said it opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the spreading of sexually explicit material by the AI chatbot Grok. The probe is being conducted under the European Union’s sweeping Digital Services Act (DSA) regulation. “The new investigation will assess whether the company properly assessed and mitigated risks associated…
Signage ahead of the Nvidia Live event at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Jan. 5, 2026. Bridget Bennett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia director Persis Drell, an engineering professor at Stanford, resigned on Wednesday after just over a decade on the chipmaker’s board of directors, the company said in a filing with the SEC…
The Intel logo is seen at the India Mobile Congress 2025 in Delhi, Oct. 11, 2025. Kabir Jhangiani | Nurphoto | Getty Images Intel shares plunged 17% on Friday after the chipmaker issued lackluster guidance and warned of a supply shortage. The stock headed for its worst session since August 2024. During a fourth-quarter earnings…
Xiaomi logo at an exhibition in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China on November 1, 2025. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Chinese tech giant Xiaomi saw its shares pop over 2% in trading on Friday after it announced a stock buyback program worth up to HK$2.5 billion ($321 million). The repurchase plan comes as the…
President Donald Trump and TikTok said Thursday that the company had formed a joint venture to keep the video-sharing app operating in the U.S. under new American leadership. The company said Adam Presser, who has been serving as TikTok’s head of operations and trust and safety, will be the CEO of TikTok USDS Joint Venture….
The Intel logo is displayed on a sign in front of Intel headquarters on Jan. 22, 2026 in Santa Clara, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Intel reported fourth-quarter earnings Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations but offered soft guidance for the current quarter. Shares of the company were down as much as 10% in…
Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach on Thursday tried to ease worries that artificial intelligence is destroying software business models. “It’s an overblown narrative, and it’s not true,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, calling AI a tailwind and “absolutely not a headwind” for the company. Software stocks have sold…
Ubisoft shares plunged 33% on Thursday morning after the maker of the “Assassin’s Creed” videogames announced a major organisational shakeup and axed six games. The company said it expected to make an operating loss of around 1 billion euros ($1.17 billion) in the financial year ending 2026, following a 650 million euro write down caused…
Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta on Wednesday said it will begin to show advertising on its Threads microblogging service to all users globally starting next week. “With ads on Threads, businesses can authentically join this conversation while finding new ways to connect with the people most interested in…
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan holds a wafer of CPU tiles for the Intel Core Ultra series 3, code-named Panther Lake, outside the Intel Ocotillo campus in Chandler, Arizona. Panther Lake is the first client system-on-chips (SoCs) built on the Intel 18A process node. Courtesy: Intel Wall Street is piling into Intel ahead of the chipmaker’s…