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Take-Two raises annual bookings forecast, sticks with 'GTA VI' November launch
Feb 3 (Reuters) - Take-Two Interactive raised its annual bookings forecast on Tuesday, betting on strong sales of its premium sports, action and mobile titles as it gears up to launch the highly anticipated "Grand Theft Auto VI" on November 19.
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Nvidia will consider investing in OpenAI IPO, CEO Huang tells CNBC
Feb 3 (Reuters) - Nvidia will consider investing in OpenAI's next fundraising round and in the startup's eventual IPO, CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC in an interview on Tuesday.
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OpenAI CEO Altman dismisses Moltbook as likely fad, backs the tech behind it
Feb 3 (Reuters) - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday played down the viral AI social network Moltbook as a likely fad, but he said the technology that let bots act on their own offered a glimpse of the future.
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Intel CEO says company will make GPUs, popularized by Nvidia
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan on Tuesday said the company plans to build graphics processing units (GPUs), the category of chip popularized by Nvidia.
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Alphabet plans major India expansion as US tightens visa rules, Bloomberg News reports
Feb 3 (Reuters) - Google-parent Alphabet is planning to dramatically expand its presence in India, with the possibility of taking millions of square feet in new office space in Bengaluru, India's tech hub, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.
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Blackstone's Gray says AI disruption risk is 'top of the page' for us
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Disruption to businesses from artificial intelligence development is "top of the page" for Blackstone, the world's largest alternative asset manager, its president and chief operating officer Jon Gray said on Tuesday.
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German voice actors boycott Netflix over AI training concerns
BERLIN, Feb 3 (Reuters) - German voice actors have launched a grassroots boycott against Netflix over a contract clause that allows the streaming platform to use their recordings for AI training, a spokesperson for the VDS voice actors' association told Reuters.
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Palantir rallies after bumper quarter fueled by US defense spending
Feb 3 (Reuters) - Shares of Palantir Technologies jumped 6.9% in early trading on Tuesday as investors bet on the company's military-grade AI tools and services after it reported a surge in quarterly sales, boosted by rising U.S. defense spending.
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White House meeting fails to resolve US crypto legislation stalemate
Feb 3 (Reuters) - A White House meeting aimed at breaking a months‑long stalemate between major U.S. banks and cryptocurrency firms ended on Monday without any agreement, underscoring industry divisions that threaten progress on landmark digital‑asset legislation.
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Disney taps parks head Josh D'Amaro as CEO to lead post-Iger era
Feb 3 (Reuters) - Walt Disney on Tuesday named theme parks head Josh D'Amaro as CEO, ending years of succession uncertainty and placing a longtime insider at the helm as artificial intelligence and a wave of consolidation upend the media industry.
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Western Digital adds $4 billion to buyback plan as AI boosts memory chip sales
Feb 3 (Reuters) - Western Digital said on Tuesday its board has approved $4 billion more for share repurchases, as demand for its memory chips used in artificial intelligence servers surges.
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Greece to soon announce social media ban for children under 15, government source says
ATHENS, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Greece is "very close" to announcing a social media ban for children aged under 15, a senior government source told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Anthropic's new AI tools deepen selloff in data analytics and software stocks, investors say
NEW YORK/LONDON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - A significant selloff among U.S. and European data analytics, professional services and software companies deepened on Tuesday, with some investors pointing to a recently updated artificial intelligence chatbot by Anthropic as the main culprit.
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Power grid delays challenge Amazon's data center expansion in Europe
BRUSSELS, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Long delays to get power grid connections are challenging Amazon's plans to expand data centers in Europe, the company told Reuters, as industries ramp up pressure on policymakers to upgrade ageing energy grids.
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PayPal sees 2026 profit below estimates, names HP's Lores as CEO
Feb 3 (Reuters) - PayPal issued a lackluster profit forecast for 2026 and reported fourth-quarter earnings below Wall Street expectations on Tuesday, while naming HP's Enrique Lores as its president and CEO.
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India's top court questions WhatsApp policy of sharing user data with Meta entities
NEW DELHI, Feb 3 (Reuters) - India's top court on Tuesday warned it could reimpose a ban on Meta-owned WhatsApp's data sharing with other group entities, saying the messaging app's privacy policy misled users, two lawyers present in court said.
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HP appoints Bruce Broussard as interim CEO
Feb 3 (Reuters) - HP Inc on Tuesday named Bruce Broussard as the company's interim chief executive officer effective immediately.
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US space stocks rise after Musk's SpaceX merges with xAI at $1.25 trillion valuation
Feb 3 (Reuters) - U.S. space stocks rose on Tuesday after Elon Musk announced the merger of SpaceX and xAI in a deal that valued the combined entity at $1.25 trillion, a major push to expand artificial intelligence infrastructure outside earth.
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Exclusive-Despite new curbs, Elon Musk’s Grok at times produces sexualized images - even when told subjects didn’t consent
NEW YORK, NY, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people even when users explicitly warn that the subjects do not consent, Reuters has found.
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Gadgets
Apple’s new AirTag tracker is better, but not upgrade-worthy
Apple Inc.'s new second-generation AirTag is basically a slightly better do-over of the original.
