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Amazon was sued on Monday by a Virginia resident over what he said were privacy violations after the company's Ring ‌doorbell cameras at friends and family members' homes collected and stored images of his ‌face using facial recognition software. The plaintiff, Charles Sigwalt, who is seeking class-action status, sued Amazon in federal court in Seattle ​alleging a feature known as “Familiar Faces” retains images of passersby without their consent. Familiar Faces, which is optional, uses artificial intelligence to identify and remember people so that when they return to a home or a business, notifications can include specific ‌names.

In 2019, while researching a book on the U.S.-China competition, I visited Huawei’s sprawling new R&D campus in Dongguan, a city about an hour’s drive from the company’s Shenzhen headquarters. A Huawei executive explained the design to me with a straight face: “We’re doing well in Europe.” In a Wall Street Journal interview that November, founder Ren Zhengfei invited President Trump to come visit and brushed off U.S. sanctions with characteristic bravado.

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Intel laid out a strategy to capitalize on the latest shifts in artificial intelligence on Tuesday, reiterating its focus on the full-stack ecosystem as it looks to pull off a pivot to AI. Emphasizing value over single chips, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan outlined four pillars to meet modern software and hardware demands: PCs, edge and agentic AI, foundational data centers, and intelligence centers.

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U.S. stock futures point to small losses while markets in Europe and Asia were largely in positive territory amid AI fever versus Mideast disquiet.

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Shares in Alphabet are down premarket after the Google parent unveiled a giant equity issue plan that underscored the epic bill for the AI buildout. The stock is down 2.5% premarket, enough to wipe more than $100 billion off the company’s market value.

Autodesk's Q1 beat highlights its planned MaintainX acquisition, pushing deeper into operations while tying AI to engineering-grade validation.

Microsoft will hold its annual software developer conference on Tuesday, where the company is ‌expected to showcase new tools for developers building AI software ‌for PCs and the cloud. In a keynote address in San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella ​is expected to outline how the technology company plans to compete both in the cloud, where it is both an investor and a rival to firms such as OpenAI, and increasingly on PCs. But OpenClaw, which has gained popularity in China and helped Microsoft's longtime rival Apple sell Mac computers, and other such tools ​are also ​risky for most businesses to use.

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.

Arm Holdings CEO Rene Haas said on Tuesday that it would be difficult to block the ‌export to China of CPUs that are useful for AI because of ‌their widespread use and as it would be difficult to block only AI CPUs. "CPUs are kind of ​like oil relative to the application space," Haas said in an interview with Reuters. Banning artificial intelligence CPUs would be nearly impossible because of the challenge of establishing specific performance thresholds and memory bandwidth limits as is possible with the ‌graphics processing units (GPUs) made by ⁠Nvidia, Haas said.

STMicroelectronics is likely to ‌decide on a ‌further expansion of its ​Crolles chipmaking site in France by the end of 2026, ‌as demand ⁠for silicon photonics used in ⁠AI data centres accelerates, its chief ​executive said ​on ​Tuesday. CEO Jean-Marc ‌Chery, speaking at a conference in Geneva, Switzerland hosted by BNP Paribas, said the ‌expected shift ​towards so-called ​near-package ​optics, where ‌optical engines sit ​closer ​to processors, would require a capacity decision. (Reporting ​by ‌Nathan Vifflin in ​Gdansk, editing by ​Milla Nissi-Prussak)

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The world’s only $5 trillion company can sell the concept that AI computing won’t be confined to data centers.

Stocks often pop on their first trading day, but larger IPOs tend to the S&P 500 over time.

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Jensen Huang walked onto the GTC Taipei stage on June 1 and described a humanoid robot by its weight and height before anything else. Six feet. 150 pounds. "Just like me," he said. The robot standing behind him was built by a Chinese startup. And that detail is more significant than it first ...

Jensen Huang says Marvell Technology could be the next chip firm to join the trillion-dollar club, predicting a surge in demand for AI hardware fueled by the emergence of autonomous models.

Jensen Huang says Marvell Technology could be the next chip firm to join the trillion-dollar club, predicting a surge in demand for AI hardware fueled by the emergence of autonomous models.

The firm behind the Claude chatbot revealed on Monday it had filed paperwork for an expected 1.0 trillion US dollar IPO.

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The US Senate has returned from recess with the Digital Asset Clarity Act at the top of the legislative calendar, and the bill’s most consequential provision is not market structure-it is the explicit prohibition on the Federal Reserve issuing a retail Central Bank Digital Currency. That CBDC block, if enacted, ...

The new head of the Fed has a virtually impossible task of appeasing the president and Wall Street concerning interest rates.

Broadcom is set to be the final semiconductor giant to report earnings for the quarter, as a historic rally in chipmaker stocks shows little signs of abating. Investors will also watch Friday’s jobs report—one of the first major economic indicators that will inform the Federal Reserve under its new chairman, Kevin Warsh.

June 2 (Reuters) - European shares opened higher on Tuesday as strong forecasts from chipmaker STMicroelectronics lifted technology stocks, while investors awaited a key inflation report later in the

Yardeni expects strong retail demand for the AI-3 IPOs, noting that brokers have already begun inviting clients to participate in the SpaceX offering.

The chairman of South Korea's SK Group said on Tuesday its memory chip ‌unit SK Hynix aims to double wafer capacity ‌over the next five years. Chey Tae-won was speaking at the Computex conference ​in Taipei, where executives from some of the world's top technology companies, including Nvidia, are gathering. He added that he hopes his company can be a major high-bandwidth memory (HBM) supplier for Nvidia's Vera Rubin system.

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