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Investing.com -- Direxion on Wednesday launched a new family of exchange-traded funds designed to generate income by writing call options on individual high-volatility stocks, expanding beyond its traditional leveraged and inverse ETF offerings.

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday unveiled a passport-sized foldable phone and raised prices of two updated foldable models, as it grapples ‌with rising memory chip prices while bracing for a new threat from Apple ‌in the niche but growing segment. The South Korean technology company pioneered foldable smartphones but its dominance is set to ​be challenged by Apple which analysts expect this year to launch a foldable phone with a screen similar in size to an iPad mini. "Strategically, this is one of Samsung's most important foldable launches," said Francisco Jeronimo, vice president at researcher IDC.

Investing.com -- oogle on Tuesday unveiled three new artificial intelligence models, including its most capable Flash model to date and a cybersecurity-focused system, as the tech giant steps up competition with OpenAI and Anthropic in the rapidly evolving AI market.

Google-backed Apptronik unveiled a new robot training facility on Tuesday, betting ‌that large-scale real-world data collection will accelerate the ‌commercialization of humanoid robots. The Austin-based startup said the facility, developed with ​Google DeepMind, is designed to move robots from pilot projects to production deployments. • The nearly 90,000-square-foot facility, Robot Park, in Austin houses fleets of humanoid robots performing logistics, ‌manufacturing and retail ⁠tasks to generate training data for AI models.

Comcast's NBCUniversal said on Monday that its ‌streaming service Peacock's Premium Plus ‌tier is now available for subscription through ​YouTube Primetime Channels, expanding access to its content library. Here are some details: • The move allows subscribers to ‌view a ⁠wide range of Peacock offerings directly within the YouTube ⁠platform, including live sports, popular NBC and Bravo series, original programming ​and Universal ​films. It ​follows a broader ‌agreement between NBCUniversal and Google that was announced in late 2025.

Helix Digital Infrastructure will “serve as a single coordination point for hyperscalers’ data centers, power, connectivity and related needs,” KKR said.

Anthropic has launched Claude Fable 5, its most powerful AI model yet.

Investing.com -- Tesla announced Wednesday the launch of its unsupervised robotaxis across the Austin Metro area, accelerating the company’s push into autonomous ride-hailing.

By Katie Paul LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms on Wednesday unveiled an artificial intelligence agent aimed at helping businesses carry out day-to-day operations, positioning the social media

Investing.com -- Broadcom shares gained over 6% in premarket trading Tuesday after Alphabet unveiled plans to raise $80 billion in equity, a massive fundraise aimed at accelerating its AI infrastructure buildout.

Google and Blackstone have formed a joint venture to offer AI data center capacity, networking and computer hardware as a “compute-as-a-service product,” the asset manager said. The tie-up opens a new avenue in the rush of private equity into AI infrastructure, moving it beyond data centers and into the business of financing compute itself. Blackstone is making an initial $5 billion equity commitment, with the first 500 megawatts of capacity expected online in 2027, the firm said in a statement.

The tech firm highlights both Spark and Omni, a video-creation tool, at its annual developer conference.

The new company gives enterprises a second route to Google's TPUs, with 500 megawatts targeted for 2027

Blackstone Inc (NYSE:BX) and Alphabet's Google have announced a joint venture aimed at developing a new US-based company that will provide dedicated cloud infrastructure centered on Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). The planned company will offer data center capacity, operations,...

The new U.S.-based company will sell access to Google's Tensor Processing Unit chips as a compute-as-a-service offering, with 500 MW of capacity targeted for 2027

SAN FRANCISCO, May 6 () - Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic on Wednesday touted a new ‌feature for its Claude AI, which it ‌calls "dreaming." Available as a research preview, "dreaming" comes with its software for ​managing agents, or AI programs that perform tasks with little human involvement.