ASML earnings report Q4 and full year 2023

ASML earnings report Q4 and full year 2023

Dutch firm ASML makes one of the most important pieces of machinery required to manufacture the most advanced chips in the world. U.S. chip curbs have left companies, including ASML, scrambling to figure out what the rules mean in practice. Emmanuel Dunand | AFP | Getty Images ASML, one of the most important semiconductor equipment … Read more

China’s EV players ramp up competition with Tesla using new technology

China’s EV players ramp up competition with Tesla using new technology

The front seats of the Aito M9 SUV can be adjusted to create reclining chairs for the second row. Passengers can watch a movie on the roll-down projector screen while storing drinks in a refrigerator compartment. CNBC | Evelyn Cheng BEIJING — Hot competition in China’s electric car market is pushing local automakers to sell … Read more

eBay to slash about 1,000 roles, or approximately 9% of full-time employees

eBay to slash about 1,000 roles, or approximately 9% of full-time employees

eBay’s headquarters in San Jose, California, U.S. Bloomberg |  Getty Images   eBay said Tuesday that it plans to lay off 9% of the company’s workforce, equating to 1,000 full-time employees Jamie Iannone, the president and CEO of eBay, detailed the layoffs on Tuesday in a letter to employees that was published on a corporate … Read more

SAP plans job changes or buyouts for 8,000 employees in restructuring

SAP plans job changes or buyouts for 8,000 employees in restructuring

SAP CEO Christian Klein speaks at a panel session on day three of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images SAP said on Tuesday that it aims to carry out voluntary buyouts or enable job changes for 8,000 employees as part of … Read more

TikTok cuts about 60 jobs as January layoffs continue across tech

TikTok cuts about 60 jobs as January layoffs continue across tech

TikTok Music has launched on Wednesday in Australia, Singapore and Mexico to a small group of users. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images TikTok has cut about 60 jobs, CNBC confirmed, the latest tech company to downsize at the start of 2024. A company spokesperson said all of those who were laid off “may … Read more

Core Scientific hits Nasdaq as Wall Street goes big in bitcoin mining

Core Scientific hits Nasdaq as Wall Street goes big in bitcoin mining

Just over a year after the crypto winter sent bitcoin miner Core Scientific spiraling into bankruptcy, the Texas-based company is back on the Nasdaq. Trading is scheduled to resume Wednesday morning. Core, which has operations in five U.S. states — Texas, North Dakota, North Carolina Georgia, and Kentucky — mines for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies … Read more

Alphabet ends contract with Appen, which trained Bard, Google Search

Alphabet ends contract with Appen, which trained Bard, Google Search

Alphabet has cut contractual ties with Appen, the artificial intelligence data firm that helped train Google’s chatbot Bard, Google Search results and other AI products. After a “strategic review process,” Alphabet notified Appen over the weekend of the termination, which will go into effect March 19, according to a filing from Appen. The company said … Read more

Amazon car-buying seeks to reshape dealerships

Amazon car-buying seeks to reshape dealerships

The total addressable market for new and used car sales in the U.S. is estimated to be somewhere between $2.5 trillion and $3 trillion, according to the National Automobile Dealers Association. And e-commerce behemoth Amazon is attempting to do what insiders say no one has been able to do yet: bring a seamless online shopping … Read more

What leaders at OpenAI, DeepMind, Cohere have to say about AGI

What leaders at OpenAI, DeepMind, Cohere have to say about AGI

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, during a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Executives at some of the world’s leading artificial intelligence labs are expecting a form of AI on a par with — or even exceeding — human intelligence to … Read more

Alibaba stock up after Jack Ma and Joe Tsai buy shares

Alibaba stock up after Jack Ma and Joe Tsai buy shares

Alibaba co-founders Jack Ma and chairman Joe Tsai, in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. Scott Eels | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alibaba co-founders Jack Ma and Joe Tsai have acquired shares worth hundreds of millions of dollars on the open market, according to … Read more