Anne Wojcicki new offer to take 23andMe private for $74.7 million

Anne Wojcicki attends the WSJ Magazine Style & Tech Dinner in Atherton, California, on March 15, 2023. Kelly Sullivan | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki and New Mountain Capital have submitted a proposal to take the embattled genetic testing company private, according to a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities … Read more

Coinbase says the SEC has agreed to end ‘bogus’ enforcement case against crypto exchange

Coinbase announced Friday that the Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to drop its enforcement case against the company, pending the approval of the regulator’s commissioners. Shares of Coinbase rose 4% in premarket trading. In 2023, the SEC charged Coinbase with operating an unregistered securities exchange and for failing to properly register its crypto staking … Read more

Beijing embraces DeepSeek to lead AI adoption as it looks for new growth drivers

This week’s news that the DeepSeek Chatbot app, developed by China, was downloaded from the Apple app store significantly more times than the US-developed ChatGPT from Open AI, wiped billions off the global tech market. Leon Neal | Getty Images News | Getty Images DeepSeek’s sudden splash in the large language model space has given … Read more

Alibaba (BABA) earnings Q3 2024

Signage at the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. offices in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Alibaba’s overhaul could serve as a template for a restructuring of China Tech itself: a shake-up that achieves Beijings aim of carving up the countrys tech titans while unlocking potentially billions of dollars in pent-up shareholder value. Bloomberg | … Read more

Europe risks becoming ‘museum’ without innovating in AI: Swedish PM

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson during a press conference on Jan. 17, 2025. Florian Gaertner | Photothek | Getty Images STOCKHOLM — Europe is at risk of becoming a “museum” if it doesn’t soften strict curbs on artificial intelligence technologies and deregulate, Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Thursday. “I think we really need to … Read more

Elon Musk’s xAI launches Grok 3 model amid tight AI competition

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk’s xAI on Tuesday unveiled its latest artificial intelligence model, Grok 3, claiming it can outperform offerings from OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek based on early testing, which included standardized tests on math, science and coding.  “We’re very excited to present Grok 3, which is, we think, an … Read more

Amazon workers face ‘anti-union propaganda’ in Garner, North Carolina

Workers picket in front of an Amazon Logistic Station on December 19, 2024 in Skokie Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Italo Medelius-Marsano was a law student at North Carolina Central University in 2022, when he took a job at an Amazon warehouse near the city of Raleigh to earn some extra cash. The past … Read more

How China’s DeepSeek could boost the already booming data center market

The emergence of cheaper and more efficient AI models off the back of China’s DeepSeek could reshape demand for data centers, boosting a sector that investors were already heavily betting would continue to boom. For years now, analysts have forecast exponential growth in data centers — the critical infrastructure required for powering the world’s digital … Read more

Chinese EVs compete with no down payment, 5-year interest-free loans

A Tesla showroom with its logo and electric vehicles on display, including the Model 3 and Model Y, is seen on January 12, 2025, in Chongqing, China.  Cheng Xin | Getty Images Electric car companies in China welcomed the Year of the Snake with a slew of incentives for consumers, after major automakers reported a … Read more

Tech megacaps to spend more than $300 billion in 2025 to win in AI

Megacap technology companies funneled billions of dollars into artificial intelligence last year to try and keep up with unfettered demand. The hype isn’t dying down in 2025. Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft intend to spend as much as $320 billion combined on AI technologies and datacenter buildouts in 2025, based on comments from their CEOs … Read more