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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple chief Tim Cook are still hyped up on virtual reality, even if consumers aren’t all excited about their...
Spotify quietly decided to make users pay for its formerly-free lyrics feature. Reddit users flagged the change this week, and Spotify implicitly...
Apple stock jumped 7% Friday morning following the company’s better-than-feared second-quarter earnings report the day before.Read more...
This week was a mixed bag for the tech industry. Read more...
Apple’s approval of its biggest-ever, $110 billion in stock buybacks has investors very excited — so excited that they’re willing to overlook...
Apple reports earnings after the bell Thursday, and it’s expected to reveal more about how AI is boosting its business and its AI strategy going...
Google and the Department of Justice are presenting their closing arguments in the biggest antitrust trial of the 21st century this Thursday and...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy had a lot to say about his employees’ efforts to unionize in 2022. But those comments, made casually to media outlets,...
There’s been a flurry of successful tech IPOs at the start of the year: Reddit, AI startup Astera Labs, consumer rewards app Ibotta,...
Google laid off at least 200 staffers on its “Core” team in California, CNBC reported Wednesday. Some of those jobs are relocating to its offices...
As tech companies race to build the world’s leading generative artificial intelligence technologies, they’re choosing from a very small talent...
Apple reports its first-quarter earnings after the bell Thursday.Read more...
Chatter is picking back up this week about whether the generative artificial intelligence hype is doomed to die.Read more...
AI has been a big boon for the electronics giant Samsung this year — something the company expects to continue throughout 2024. In a new earnings...
Meta’s Oversight Board is planning job cuts, The Washington Post reported Monday, citing anonymous sources.Read more...
Apple is the stock buyback king of tech giants.Read more...
Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger host thousands of advertisements for sexually explicit AI “girlfriend” chatbots, according to a new report. The...
Apple and Google have removed apps that promised deepfake nudes from the App Store and Google Play, according to a report from 404 Media.Read more...
Snap shares jumped 30% Friday after the company reported improved sales and a big increase in premium subscribers.Read more...
Wall Street thinks Google stock will keep surging after a brief stall in February and March.Read more...
Salesforce officially released its AI chatbot Einstein Copilot at its World Tour NYC event in Manhattan on Thursday. Per usual, the company flashed...
Salesforce on Thursday announced the general availability of its chatbot for businesses, Einstein Copilot.Read more...
Google parent Alphabet reported a surge in profits of nearly 60% in the first quarter of this year versus the same period a prior year.Read more...
Meta stock plummeted more than 16% in after-hours trading Wednesday, even as the Facebook parent company reported better-than-anticipated sales.Read...
Mark Zuckerberg’s gleeful rebrand of Facebook as Meta in 2021 has become a well documented blunder. What was promised — a virtual reality where we...
Nvidia announced plans Wednesday to acquire Israeli AI startup Run:ai. While Nvidia didn’t disclose the terms of its coming transaction, an Israeli...
Salesforce stock got a bump Monday morning following a report by The Wall Street Journal that it is no longer pursuing a deal to buy Informatica, a...
A new report from Brown University’s “Costs of War” project sheds light on a renewed closeness between the Pentagon and Silicon Valley, with the...
This week was a positive sign for the tech IPO market, as Ibotta made a successful debut on the public market, and Microsoft-backed Rubrik announced...
Shares of Ibotta — a Denver-based consumer rewards platform that counts major U.S. companies such as Walmart and Kroger as customers — surged in...
The Wall Street Journal on Thursday published a report detailing how Amazon used a shell company, Big River Services International, to spy on its...
Amazon started a fake business called Big River Services International to spy on rivals such as Walmart, eBay, and Fedex—an operation it called...
Ibotta is a Colorado-based consumer rewards platform set to go public Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange. It’s one of several tech companies to...
Americans are worried about how AI deepfakes could spark a misinformation wildfire ahead of the U.S. presidential election this fall — and some are...
Adobe said this week that it’s in talks with OpenAI and other AI companies, such as Runway and Pika Labs, to make AI video generation tools for...
Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple wants to invest more in suppliers in Vietnam during a meeting with Vietnamese prime minister Pham Minh Chinh on...
An Arm executive saysgenerative AI’s overwhelming demand for electricity could hinder its rapid growth.Read more...
Less than half of U.S. companies are taking steps to train their employees to use generative artificial intelligence—which has been hailed the most...
Even a nod of approval from Wall Street isn’t helping Reddit stock. The shares fell lower Monday than even the most modest price targets set by...
A top Microsoft executive said in a new interview that the tech giant is “ground zero” for foreign government-backed hackers.Read more...
Adobe is one of a few companies that pay contributors to submit content to train their AI models. Bloomberg, citing documents, reports that the...
Millions of students are using generative artificial intelligence to write papers as the popularity of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT proliferates.Read...
Google is dropping its VPN (or virtual private network) from Google One, the company’s paid cloud storage service. The tech giant ditched its...
It’s been a busy week for the tech industry and AI. Read more...
Meta on Thursday announced a new tool for Instagram direct messages to protect kids and teens from predators trying to elicit nudes and “sextort”...
The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba got a boost Wednesday from the return of its elusive founder Jack Ma.Read more...
Meta on Wednesday debuted a new model of its AI chip, which it said is three times more efficient than its first one.Read more...
Google was sure to mention privacy and security at its annual Google Next conference — right as it’s wrapping up past privacy issues with another...
Google said Tuesday that its Cloud TPU v5p, one of the few alternatives to Nvidia’s AI chips, is now available to developers.Read more...
It’s no secret that Google’s flagship AI chatbot Gemini has had some problems. Its production of historically inaccurate images forced Google...