Getty asks London court to stop UK sales of Stability AI system

By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – Stock photo provider Getty Images has asked London’s High Court for an injunction to prevent artificial intelligence company Stability AI from selling its AI image-generation system in Britain, court filings show. The Seattle-based company accuses the company of breaching its copyright by using its images to “train” its Stable…

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Elon Musk is accused of insider trading by investors in Dogecoin lawsuit

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Elon Musk is being accused of insider trading in a proposed class action by investors accusing the Tesla Inc CEO of manipulating the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, costing them billions of dollars. In a Wednesday night filing in Manhattan federal court, investors said Musk used Twitter posts, paid online influencers,…

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CNN Worldwide appoints Warner Bros Discovery’s David Leavy as COO

(Reuters) – Warner Bros Discovery Inc senior executive David Leavy has been appointed as chief operating officer of CNN Worldwide, effective June 20, the media network said on Thursday. Leavy, who currently serves as chief corporate affairs officer for Warner Bros Discovery, will assume responsibility over commercial, operational and promotional activities across CNN Worldwide. Ever…

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Semi shorts down $18 billion in mark-to-market losses in 2023, S3 Partners says

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Short sellers in U.S. shares related to the semiconductor industry are down $18.31 billion in mark-to-market losses for the year to date, including $7.2 billion in losses since last week’s rally in Nvidia’s stock, according to financial data firm S3 Partners. Nvidia’s shares are up about 28% since May 24, when…

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SpaceX’s Starlink wins Pentagon contract for satellite services to Ukraine

By Mike Stone and Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – SpaceX’s Starlink, the satellite communications service started by billionaire Elon Musk, now has a Department of Defense contract to buy those satellite services for Ukraine, the Pentagon said on Thursday. “We continue to work with a range of global partners to ensure Ukraine has the resilient…

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US Supreme Court throws out ruling against Slack over direct listing

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday gave Salesforce Inc’s Slack Technologies another chance to avoid a lawsuit over the workplace communications software company’s 2019 direct listing. In a 9-0 ruling, the justices threw out a lower court’s decision that had let the proposed class action lawsuit filed by shareholder Fiyyaz Pirani…

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C3.ai shares slump as revenue forecast fails to live up to AI hype

By Medha Singh (Reuters) -Shares of C3.ai Inc dropped nearly 20% in early trade on Thursday after the AI software maker’s quarterly revenue forecast missed estimates, dampening some of Wall Street’s recent euphoria around small cap AI-linked stocks. Most other small-cap artificial intelligence (AI) related stocks also fell, with analytics firm BigBear.ai, conversation intelligence firm…

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Salesforce shares drop on slowest revenue growth in more than 10 years

By Samrhitha A (Reuters) – Salesforce Inc fell about 7% on Thursday after reporting quarterly revenue that increased at its slowest pace since 2010, with companies cutting back spending on cloud-based software offerings. The enterprise software maker was set to shed nearly $14 billion in market value, based on its share price of $208.40. The…

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Southeast Asian tech giant Sea disbands investment arm -sources

(Corrects paragraph 7 to say Ma became chief investment officer of Sea Capital not Sea) By Kane Wu and Fanny Potkin HONG KONG/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Southeast Asian e-commerce and gaming giant Sea Ltd is winding down its investment arm, two people with knowledge of the matter said, amid a cooling investment environment globally as macroeconomic and…

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