Death Valley National Park on July 15, 2023, near Furnace Creek, California. David Mcnew | Getty Images Venture capital firm World Fund said Friday it’s closed a 300 million euro ($325 million) fund to back startups tackling climate change. World Fund, a European climate technology investor incubated by the environment-conscious search engine Ecosia, said … Read more
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., once again urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Tesla, CEO Elon Musk and the company’s board of directors over what she called, “possible misappropriation of Tesla resources and conflicts of interest arising from Mr. Musk’s dual role at Tesla and X— renamed from Twitter.” Warren, who sits on both … Read more
Reddit power users who participated in the company’s IPO made millions of dollars as a group in profits after the stock’s big jump in its first day on the market. While Redditors interviewed by CNBC ahead of the offering said they were skipping out on the IPO due to concerns about the business and the … Read more
Reddit mascot Snoo is seen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as Reddit begins trading in New York on March 21, 2024. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he has no equity in the $80 billion artificial intelligence startup he co-founded in 2015. His … Read more
Reddit shares jumped as much as 70% in their debut on Thursday in the first initial public offering for a major social media company since Pinterest hit the market in 2019. The 19-year-old website that hosts millions of online forums priced its IPO on Wednesday at $34 a share, the top of the expected range. … Read more
Attorney General Merrick Garland and other U.S. Department of Justice officials briefed reporters on Thursday about their decision to file an antitrust lawsuit against Apple. The Justice Department and 16 attorneys general filed the highly anticipated suit on Thursday, alleging that Apple’s iPhone ecosystem is a monopoly and that its anti-competitive practices extend to the … Read more
Microsoft’s Surface Pro 10 for Business, at left, and the company’s Surface Laptop 6 for Business. Microsoft Microsoft is releasing its first Surface PCs featuring a dedicated Copilot button on the keyboard for quickly accessing the chatbot, following through on a promise it made in January. The addition of the button, to the left of … Read more
The IM-1 lander “Odysseus” in lunar orbit on Feb. 21, 2024. Intuitive Machines Intuitive Machines is building on the successes of its inaugural moon mission, reporting fourth-quarter results on Thursday and saying it now has “sufficient capital for the near term.” The lunar company revealed that its cash balance at the end of the year … Read more
The Department of Justice sued Apple on Thursday, saying its iPhone ecosystem is a monopoly that drove its “astronomical valuation” at the expense of consumers, developers and rival phone makers. The lawsuit claims that Apple’s anti-competitive practices extend beyond the iPhone and Apple Watch businesses, citing Apple’s advertising, browser, FaceTime and news offerings. “Each step … Read more
Tesla CEO, Elon Musk (L), and Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang (R). Reuters In November 2023, at an all-hands meeting with employees, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was asked whether the company would follow the lead of Apple and Disney and suspend its advertising on X due to rising levels of antisemitism and other hate speech on … Read more
