Apple underperformed mega-cap peers in 2023 due to revenue slide

Apple underperformed mega-cap peers in 2023 due to revenue slide

Apple CEO Tim Cook stands next to a new Apple Vision Pro headset displayed during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino, California, June 5, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Apple’s stock rallied in 2023, but its performance was outshined by all of its mega-cap tech peers, as the company suffered four straight quarters … Read more

Apple executives Johny Srouji and John Ternus on its chip business

Apple executives Johny Srouji and John Ternus on its chip business

In November, CNBC visited Apple’s campus in Cupertino, California, to get a look inside one of the company’s many chip labs. CNBC also got a rare chance to talk with the senior vice president of hardware technologies, Johny Srouji, and Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, John Ternus, about the company’s push into the … Read more

Jim Cramer says investors should remember the optionality of 6 of the Magnificent 7

Jim Cramer says investors should remember the optionality of 6 of the Magnificent 7

CNBC’s Jim Cramer keyed in on the optionality of six of the companies that have become known as the “Magnificent Seven” during his Wednesday show. “The Magnificent Seven have the most optionality of any publicly traded companies in modern history,” Cramer said. “To sell any of them is to forget that they have this kind … Read more

How doctors are using Google’s new AI models for health care

How doctors are using Google’s new AI models for health care

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, speaks on artificial intelligence during a Bruegel think tank conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 20, 2020. Yves Herman | Reuters The MedLM suite includes a large and a medium-sized AI model, both built on Med-PaLM 2, a large language model trained on medical data that Google first … Read more

AFL-CIO and Microsoft announce new tech-labor partnership on AI and the future of the workforce

AFL-CIO and Microsoft announce new tech-labor partnership on AI and the future of the workforce

New AI alliance will educate workers, incorporate labor’s voice in tech development and help shape policy that supports workers WASHINGTON, Dec. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced the formation of a new partnership to create an open dialogue to discuss how … Read more

Google stock up after company announces Gemini AI model

Google stock up after company announces Gemini AI model

Google shares jumped Thursday, a day after the company announced its latest artificial intelligence model called Gemini. Google executives said Gemini outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-3.5, but the company did not share how it compares with OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-4. Analysts are encouraged by Google’s progress in AI, but questions remain about how the company will monetize … Read more

Stock market today: Asian shares slip ahead of key US economic reports

Stock market today: Asian shares slip ahead of key US economic reports

TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares declined Tuesday on heavy selling of property and technology shares. U.S. futures slipped and oil prices were little changed. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped 2.4% to 16,238.79, while the Shanghai Composite lost 1.7% to 2,972.30 as worries flared over weakness in the Chinese economy. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 slipped 1.4% … Read more

AI’s future could be ‘open-source’ or closed. Tech giants are divided as they lobby regulators

AI’s future could be ‘open-source’ or closed. Tech giants are divided as they lobby regulators

Tech leaders have been vocal proponents of the need to regulate artificial intelligence, but they’re also lobbying hard to make sure the new rules work in their favor. That’s not to say they all want the same thing. Facebook parent Meta and IBM on Tuesday launched a new group called the AI Alliance that’s advocating … Read more