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In this article BABA BABA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Regulatory scrutiny forced Hangzhou-based Ant Group to abruptly suspend its massive IPO plans in 2020. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images China’s central bank hit Alibaba affiliate Ant Group with a 7.12 billion yuan fine ($985 million) on Friday. The People’s Bank

Japan is known for its futuristic technology. But the nation is lagging behind in the generative AI race and is trying to create its own large language models. Mr.cole_photographer | Moment | Getty Images Countries are racing to develop their own generative artificial intelligence algorithms, but high tech Japan is already behind. Generative AI has

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon fulfillment center in Eastvale, California on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. MediaNews Group | The Riverside Press-Enterprise via Getty Images Of the many acts that can get an Amazon merchant kicked off the site, few are as devastating as selling stolen goods. Amazon calls the

In this article META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tech titans Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are in a fierce business rivalry that has spilt over into a playground spat, with the two men offering to fight each other in a cage. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images Meta has officially debuted its

The logo of Threads is displayed on a mobile phone screen in front of a computer screen displaying the logo of Instagram in Ankara, Turkiye on July 04, 2023.  Emin Sansar | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Meta will officially release Threads, its text-based Twitter competitor, on Thursday, but for those who want to get ahead

Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images Recent usage limits on Twitter were implemented to “detect and eliminate bots and other bad actors,” the company said Tuesday, adding that only a “small percentage” of users are currently affected. “To ensure the authenticity of our user base we must take extreme measures to remove spam and

China is restricting exports of two niche metals that are key to manufacture electronics and semiconductors, as the tech battle with the U.S. and Europe heats up. Germanium and gallium are the two metals in the spotlight. But what and how crucial are they? Why is China slapping export curbs on the metals? China and

In this article TSLA 9868-HK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A XPeng Inc. G6 electric sport utility vehicle (SUV). The company is hoping the release of the new car will boost sales which plunged in the first quarter. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Xpeng surged in pre-market trade in the

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Lucas Jackson | Reuters Tesla posted its second-quarter vehicle production and delivery report for 2023 on Sunday. Here are the key numbers from the electric vehicle maker: Total deliveries Q2 2023: 466,140 Total production Q2 2023: 479,700 The numbers beat analysts’ expectations and indicate that deliveries

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Skype is not what it was. You may or may not have noticed. The voice, video and messaging app became a hit in the 2000s by letting people talk with friends and family members without paying long-distance fees. In 2005 eBay bought it. That deal

Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images Thousands of users reported problems as they tried to access Twitter Saturday, marking the latest widespread outage since Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk acquired the social media site late last year. Many users who tried to access or post content on Twitter’s website or mobile app were

Over half of all new cars sold in the U.S. by 2030 are expected to be electric vehicles. That could put a major strain on our nation’s electric grid, an aging system built for a world that runs on fossil fuels. Domestic electricity demand in 2022 is expected to increase up to 18% by 2030

Aigen founders: Rich Wurden (CTO) and Kenny Lee (CEO) Courtesy: Aigen The Aigen Element looks like a drafting table on rugged tires. It drives itself continuously at around two miles per hour over farmland, using an advanced computer vision system to identify crops and unwanted botanical invaders. With two-axis robotic arms positioned close the ground,

In this article AAPL NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple CEO Tim Cook stands next to the new Apple Vision Pro headset is displayed during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on June 05, 2023 in Cupertino, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The last time technology stocks had a better first half, Apple

In this article .FKRX300 Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT SK Telecom’s “A.” (pronounced “A dot”) artificial intelligence chatbot has a character that speaks to people. The company has integrated its various service from music streaming to e-commerce into A. and is planning to launch it fully in 2023. SK Telecom, one of South Korea’s

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google tried to distance itself from a pre-planned drag show featuring longtime performer “Peaches Christ” in San Francisco but employees still attended. Some of them booed their employer for what they viewed as a caving to pressure of an internal religion-led protest. Jennifer Elias A

Karl-Josef Hildenbrand | AFP | Getty Images Car-sharing service Turo filed its IPO prospectus in January 2022. A month earlier, Reddit said it submitted a draft registration for a public offering. Instacart’s confidential paperwork was filed in May of last year. None of them have hit the market yet. Despite a bloated pipeline of companies