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Elon Musk’s Wikipedia rival Grokipedia got off to a “rocky start” in its public debut, but Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales didn’t even have to take a look at the AI’s output to know what he expected.”I’m not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now,” Wales said at the CNBC Technology Executive Council Summit in New York City on Tuesday.Wales had plenty of choice words for Musk, notably in response to allegations that there is “woke bias” on Wikipedia. “He is mistaken about that,” Wales said. “His complaints about Wiki are that we focus on mainstream sources and I…

Emission testing system launched in July 2024 to regulate vehicular pollution ahead of smog seasonSmog in Lahore. Photo File: REUTERS The Punjab Environmental Protection Agency has announced that vehicles without “Green Stickers” will be banned from the roads after November 15. Dr Imran Hamid Sheikh, Director General of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said exhaust testing has been made mandatory for all vehicles in Lahore. As part of the EPA, a strict crackdown on vehicles causing air pollution in the city. “From November 15, any vehicle found on the road without an Exhaust Testing System (ETS) certificate or a green sticker…

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the Live Keynote Pregame during the Nvidia GTC (GPU Technology Conference) in Washington, DC, on Oct. 28, 2025.Jim Watson | AFP | Getty ImagesNvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at the company’s GTC conference on Tuesday that its Blackwell graphics processing units — the company’s fastest AI chips — are now in full production in Arizona.Previously, Nvidia’s fastest GPUs were solely manufactured in Taiwan.Huang said that President Donald Trump had asked him nine months ago to bring manufacturing back to U.S. shores.”The first thing that President Trump asked me for is bring manufacturing back,” Huang…

Hamas says it remains committed to truce, citing challenges in recovering Israeli captives’ bodiesThis picture taken from Rafah shows smoke rising over buildings in Khan Yunis during Israeli bombardment, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Feb. 1, 2024. PHOTO: AFP Gaza’s civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike on a vehicle in the south of the territory killed five people on Tuesday. “At least five (were killed) in an Israeli strike on a civilian vehicle on Al-Qassam Street in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip,” Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the agency, which operates as a rescue force under Hamas, told AFP.…

CleanSpark, a Las Vegas based bitcoin miner, is moving into artificial intelligence, beginning to develop AI data centers alongside its crypto-mining business. The company’s CEO laid out details of the recently announced strategy on CNBC’s “Crypto World” this week, and why it’s likely to become core to the business models of more crypto mining companies.One key example of why bitcoin miners can win in the booming data center market: CleanSpark recently won a 100-megawatt site in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and beat out the tech giant Microsoft for the contract, according to its CEO.How did a company with a market cap under…

A traffic light shows red in front of the US Capitol, in Washington DC , October 14, 2025.Celal Gunes/ | Anadolu | Getty ImagesA federal judge on Tuesday extended a temporary order blocking the Trump administration’s plans to fire thousands of federal employees during the government shutdown.The order, called a preliminary injunction, prohibits the administration from issuing reduction-in-force, or RIF, notices until the government reopens, Judge Susan Illston said during a hearing in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.Illston had imposed a short-term firing freeze, known as a temporary restraining order or TRO, on Oct. 15.The American Federation of State,…

A person rides an electric scooter past the air traffic control tower at Reagan Washington National Airport as the U.S. government shutdown continues in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., Oct. 8, 2025. Nathan Howard | ReutersU.S. air traffic controllers Tuesday missed their first full paychecks since the government shutdown began at the start of the month, while the Department of Transportation said flight delays due to staffing shortages have increased.The controllers are facing increased financial stress and it’s getting harder to recruit much-needed workers, union officials and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Tuesday. Air traffic controllers and airport security screeners are among…

Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of video game publisher Take-Two Interactive, said he is not a “naysayer” when it comes to the promise of artificial intelligence. But at the same time, Zelnick, who leads the company that publishes the “Grand Theft Auto,” “NBA 2K,” “Red Dead” and “Borderlands” video game series, said the signs that the technology is having an impact on game development and production are “still limited.”That’s for two reasons, Zelnick told a room of technology executives at CNBC’s Technology Executive Council Summit in New York on Tuesday.The first reason — which is increasingly placing AI companies at odds…

Shares of high-tech glass maker Corning dropped 2.5% on Tuesday after climbing more than 80% this year. Investors took profits after what were solid earnings. We weren’t among them. In fact, we bought the pullback on Tuesday morning, shortly after underserved post-earnings weakness developed. Corning makes specialty glass for data center cables and screens for all kinds of digital devices. We’re raising our price target on the stock to $95 per share from $93 and reiterating our buy-equivalent 1 rating. Here are the headline numbers from Corning’s third quarter, which ended Sept. 30. Core revenue , which adjusts for factors…

The Lucid display is seen at the New York International Auto Show on April 16, 2025. Danielle DeVries | CNBCLucid Group is targeting a new goal that would make it the first automaker to offer highly advanced self-driving capabilities in its vehicles in the coming years, the company said Tuesday.The all-electric vehicle manufacturer expects to launch what it’s calling “mind-off” driving in which a car can essentially drive itself under normal circumstances without a human needing to monitor it or intervene unless there’s a change in circumstances, such as severe weather. That would be like an occupant playing a game…