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.
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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.
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.
Rivian Automotive is considering making its own lidar sensors and could do so in partnership with a Chinese firm, CEO RJ Scaringe said in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday. Rivian said that a version of its R2 vehicles coming later this year would include lidar sensors, which help self-driving vehicles gain a three-dimensional view of the road. Rivian did not disclose who would supply it with lidar sensors, which on demonstration vehicles were much smaller than the large, spinning units found on the streets of San Francisco and other cities in robotaxis designed by Alphabet's Waymo.