3. California teamin' on such a winter's day
Elon Musk and California are friends again, apparently. The Tesla CEO met with California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday to tour the company's new engineering headquarters in Palo Alto. The EV maker, which is looking to expand its AI and robot technology, is taking over a lease for office space that was previously occupied by Hewlett-Packard. "This was HP's original headquarters, and so I think it's a poetic transition from the founders of Silicon Valley to Tesla and we're very excited to make this our global engineering headquarters," said Musk, an outspoken critic of California's policies and Democratic politics. "And we're a California-Texas company." Indeed, the surprising meetup between Newsom, a Democrat, and Musk comes amid numerous regulatory battles between California and Tesla, and not long after the company's 2021 relocation of its headquarters to Texas.
4. Sharing desks at Google
Alphabet's Google is telling cloud employees to start sharing desks at the company's five biggest locations in the United States, including San Francisco, Seattle and New York, CNBC's Jennifer Elias reported. Google's cloud business is growing rapidly, pulling in billions in revenue each quarter, but is still losing several hundred million dollars each period. Overall, Alphabet pulled in nearly $60 billion in profit last year. Company leaders are calling the new seating plan "Cloud Office Evolution" or "CLOE." Some Google employees mocked the corporate messaging surrounding the change. "Not every cost-cutting measure needs to be word mangled into sounding good for employees," said one message generated using the company's internal meme generator. "A simple 'We are cutting office space to reduce costs' would make leadership sound more believable."
5. 'The path of the murderer'
Both Ukraine and Russia are ramping up their rhetoric as Russian leader Vladimir Putin's invasion of the former Soviet state approaches the one-year mark Friday. "Russia has chosen the path of the murderer. The path of the terrorist. The path of the torturer. The path of the looter. This is the state choice of Russia, and there will be state responsibility for the terror committed," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a Telegram post ahead of the grim anniversary. Putin, meanwhile, has condemned U.S. and overall Western support for Ukraine, while preparing for a potential visit from Chinese President Xi Jinping this spring. Follow live war updates.
— CNBC's Mike Calia wrote this newsletter. Tanaya Macheel, Kif Leswing, Yasmin Khorram, Jennifer Elias and Holly Ellyatt contributed.
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