By Casey Hall SHANGHAI (Reuters) – AliExpress, an e-commerce site owned by Chinese giant Alibaba, has signed former England soccer captain David Beckham as a brand ambassador as it plays catch-up with rival PDD Holdings’ Temu in a battle to sell cheap made-in-China goods to the world. A low-key cross-border player until recently, Alibaba is now…
(Reuters) – U.S. businessman Elon Musk recently told investors that his artificial intelligence startup xAI is planning to build a supercomputer to power the next version of its AI chatbot Grok, The Information reported on Saturday citing a presentation to investors. Musk said he wants to get the proposed supercomputer running by the fall of…
(Reuters) -GameStop made nearly $933.4 million by selling 45 million shares, the struggling videogame retailer said on Friday, sending its shares up 15% after the bell. The company had disclosed its share sale plan earlier this month amid a retail buying frenzy sparked by the return on social media of “Roaring Kitty” Keith Gill, whose…
By Yuvraj Malik (Reuters) – Shares of Dell Technologies hit a record high on Friday amid a rally in companies working on generative artificial intelligence applications, buoyed by strong optimism for the new technology. AI-heavyweight Nvidia posted strong quarterly results and forecast current-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, reinforcing that customers’ spending on…
(Reuters) – Proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis said on Saturday it has urged Tesla shareholders to reject a $56 billion pay package for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, which if passed would be the largest pay package for a CEO in corporate America. The report cited reasons like the “excessive size” of the pay deal,…
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Alphabet-owned Google will invest a further 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) into the expansion of its data centre campus in Finland to drive its artificial intelligence (AI) business growth in Europe, it said in a statement on Monday. In recent years, many data centres have been located in the Nordic countries because…
(Reuters) -CalPERS, the biggest public pension plan in the United States, said on Monday it would vote against all Exxon Mobil board members at its upcoming annual meeting on May 29, citing the oil major’s legal action against activist investors. Exxon, which is frequently the focus of critical shareholder resolutions, had filed a lawsuit earlier…
(Reuters) – Target will be lowering prices on at least 5,000 frequently shopped products across its assortment ranging from milk to diapers, the big-box retailer said on Monday, as it looks to attract budget-stretched customers. Still-high food prices and borrowing costs have made cash-crunched customers more conscious of their spending on pricey items and look…
LONDON (Reuters) – Anglo American shareholder Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) supports the break-up plan announced by the company last week, it said on Monday, as the deadline approaches for BHP Group to log a formal takeover offer. The radical plan to divest Anglo’s less profitable coal, nickel, diamond and platinum businesses followed its…
By Anna Tong and Akash Sriram (Reuters) -ChatGPT maker OpenAI said on Monday it would release a new AI model called GPT-4o, which reasons across voice, text and vision. OpenAI’s chief technology officer, Mira Murati, said during a livestream event that the new GPT-4o model would be offered for free because it is more efficient…
