Apple offers holiday discount in China as Huawei competition heats up Apple is facing heightened competition from a resurgent Huawei and other domestic brands.

Alibaba slashes prices on large language models by up to 85% as China AI rivalry heats up Alibaba is offering the price cuts on its visual language model, Qwen-VL, which is designed to perceive and understand both texts and images.

The boldest bitcoin predictions for 2025 are in — and most see prices doubling to $200,000 Several industry watchers who spoke to CNBC forecast bitcoin will hit $200,000 in 2025.

Silicon Valley’s turn of fortune: Intel has worst year ever, while Broadcom enjoys record gain Intel lost over 60% of its value in 2024, the biggest drop in its 53 years as a public company. Broadcom’s stock price more than doubled.

Bitcoin was the best investment of 2024, but not without its usual volatility Bitcoin was far and away the best performing asset class in 2024 thanks to new ETFs and hopes for a crypto-friendly White House.

Ransomware is 35 years old and now a billion-dollar problem. Here’s how it could evolve Ransomware officially turned 35 in December. The technology has come a long way in that time.

Why tech giants such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Meta are betting big on nuclear power Tech’s biggest companies are turning to nuclear power for their efficiency and sustainability goals and to meet massive energy demands.

OpenAI says it needs ‘more capital than we’d imagined’ as it lays out for-profit plan OpenAI said in a blog post Friday that heading into 2025, “we have to become an enduring company,” which requires changing its structure.

Google CEO Pichai struggled to navigate a pressure-filled year Google CEO Pichai notched some AI wins but struggled to navigate a pressure-filled year.

Google CEO Pichai tells employees to gear up for big 2025: ‘The stakes are high’ In a meeting with employees, Google CEO Sundar Pichai set the stage for 2025, and the expected increase in competition, regulatory hurdles and AI advancements.

Waymo dominated U.S. robotaxi market in 2024, but Tesla and Amazon’s Zoox loom Waymo may have outlasted GM’s Cruise to lead the U.S. market but Elon Musk’s Tesla and Amazon’s Zoox are working to catch up.

Larry Ellison wraps up banner year as Oracle’s stock rallies most since dot-com boom Oracle shares have jumped 63% in 2024 and are headed for their best year since 1999, adding more than $75 billion to Larry Ellison’s net worth.

AI and crypto drove gains in this year’s top 5 tech stocks The promises of artificial intelligence and the rally in crypto prices were the main drivers of the best-performing tech stocks of 2024.

Digital health companies got pummeled by Wall Street in 2024 as industry adapts to post-Covid slowdown It’s been nearly five years since the coronavirus broke out in the U.S., but digital health companies are still reeling.

Mark Zuckerberg went all in on Meta’s AI strategy this year. The pressure builds in 2025 Generative AI technology has become Meta’s priority, directly impacting the company’s business and potentially paving the road to future revenue opportunities.

Silicon Valley’s White House influence grows as Trump taps tech execs for key roles Trump nominated top tech leaders for key spots in his administration, including executives who’ve held roles at Andreessen Horowitz and PayPal.

MicroStrategy rides ‘red sweep’ to 477% gain in 2024, topping almost all U.S. stocks Of the 439,000 bitcoin that MicroStrategy owns, more than one-third have been purchased since Trump’s election victory last month.

U.S. launches new probe into legacy Chinese chips as tech pressure on Beijing escalates The Biden administration launched a new probe into legacy Chinese semiconductors that may go into everything from cars to household goods and defense systems.

What Google’s quantum computing breakthrough Willow means for the future of bitcoin and other cryptos Google’s new chip Willow made a big statement that quantum computing is coming to the real world. That could also mean a future of cryptocurrency hacking.

House Democrats say GOP caved to Musk in funding bill, protecting his China interests The funding bill that Congress passed over the weekend could have gone further if not for Elon Musk’s influence over Republicans, House Democrats say.