Buy levels for DuPont, Dover, Eaton that benefit from AI, sector trends

Buy levels for DuPont, Dover, Eaton that benefit from AI, sector trends

The artificial intelligence trade is not just for traditional tech companies. We have three industrial stocks in the portfolio that will keep getting more and more business as AI proliferates and data centers are built and rebuilt to handle the increasing computing workloads. Beyond AI, there are other fundamental reasons to buy them as well. … Read more

AI craze getting funded by tech giants, distorting traditional VCs

AI craze getting funded by tech giants, distorting traditional VCs

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky speaks with Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei during AWS re:Invent 2023, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, at The Venetian Las Vegas in Las Vegas on Nov. 28, 2023. Noah Berger | Getty Images Almost three years into a largely dormant IPO cycle, venture capitalists are in … Read more

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says France charges are ‘misguided’

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says France charges are ‘misguided’

Pavel Durov, chief executive officer of Telegram, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images The boss of messaging platform Telegram said late Thursday that charges against him by France are “misguided,” in his first public comments since being detained in the country … Read more

Harris endorsed vs. Trump by Murdoch heir, CEOs of Yelp, Box Ripple

Harris endorsed vs. Trump by Murdoch heir, CEOs of Yelp, Box Ripple

U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event at the Throwback Brewery, in North Hampton, New Hampshire, on September 4, 2024. Joseph Prezioso | AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON — Eighty-eight current and former top executives from across corporate America have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in … Read more

British competition regulator objects to Google’s ad tech practices

British competition regulator objects to Google’s ad tech practices

The entrance to Google’s U.K. offices in London. Olly Curtis | Future Publishing | via Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s competition watchdog on Friday issued a statement of objections over Google’s ad tech practices, which the regulator provisionally found are impacting competition in the U.K. In a statement, the Competition and Markets Authority alleged that … Read more

Netherlands expands export curbs on advanced chip tools

Netherlands expands export curbs on advanced chip tools

An icon of ASML is displayed on a smartphone, with an ASML chip visible in the background. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images The Dutch government on Friday announced it is expanding export restrictions on advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment, bringing more of ASML‘s machines under curbs. More types of chipmaking tools are now subject to … Read more

Lion King director Rob Minkoff interview on AI in film

Lion King director Rob Minkoff interview on AI in film

Lion King directors Roger Allers (L) and Rob Minkoff. Kevin Winter | Getty Images Artificial intelligence is a “Wild West” with “very few rules” — but it has the potential to democratize the film industry in the long term, according to the director of “The Lion King.” Rob Minkoff, who co-directed the classic 1994 animated … Read more

U.S. rolls out new chip-related export controls as China makes industry advances

U.S. rolls out new chip-related export controls as China makes industry advances

Digitally Generated Images Wong Yu Liang | Moment | Getty Images The Biden administration is rolling out new export controls on critical technologies, including quantum computing and semiconductor goods, as China makes advances in the global chips industry. Released by the U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday, the rules cover quantum computers and components; advanced … Read more

Japanese chip equipment firms count on China sales amid U.S. moves to block high-end exports to Beijing

Japanese chip equipment firms count on China sales amid U.S. moves to block high-end exports to Beijing

This picture taken on May 1, 2024 shows professors and students looking at a Minimal Fab, a small-scale semiconductor factory that does not require a clean room, at Tokyo University in Tokyo. (Photo by Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP) (Photo by YUICHI YAMAZAKI/AFP via Getty Images) Yuichi Yamazaki | Afp | Getty Images Japanese semiconductor equipment … Read more

Salesforce to acquire Own for $1.9 billion in cash

Salesforce to acquire Own for .9 billion in cash

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, speaks during a keynote at the Dreamforce 2023 conference in San Francisco on Sept. 12, 2023. Marlena Sloss | Bloomberg | Getty Images Salesforce announced Thursday that it would pay $1.9 billion in cash for Own Co., a startup specializing in tools for backing up data in cloud-based applications. Salesforce … Read more