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Dave LeeBloomberg |
The content deals between AI companies and top publishers are coming fast and furious. The latest, and claimed to be the biggest, was announced on...
For more than two decades, a simple handshake has shaped how people find information online. It works like this: Websites allow Google’s web...
I find it hard to believe that no one on Apple Inc.’s marketing team saw this coming. Maybe they were too timid to speak up. Perhaps they were...
Every now and then, I’ll be tempted by an iPad. I’ll spot some slick individual at a departure gate using one. Look at how neat it is, I’ll...
ByteDance Ltd.’s Hail Mary legal effort to avoid selling or shutting down TikTok relies on convincing a judge the social network will disappear...
The storm clouds are finally starting to clear over the head of Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy. After taking over from Jeff Bezos,...
Meta Platforms Inc. investors must ask themselves one thing about Mark Zuckerberg: Do they trust him? Expectations were high for the first quarter...
It has become clear over the last year that Silicon Valley companies, which for the longest time could keep Wall Street happy with enormous growth...
As expected, the bill banning TikTok, now packaged with vital foreign aid, flew through the House over the weekend and seems set to be passed by the...
A common practice among tech startups is using boilerplate language in their terms and conditions, bits of legaleze that are slathered all over their...
The reviews of the Humane Ai Pin are in — oh boy, are they in. Called the first "major" new consumer device of the artificial intelligence era, the...
Shares in Google-parent Alphabet Inc. have lagged competitors so far this year. There is worry its faltering progress in artificial intelligence means...
On a recent Friday, there was little sign of the drama in 2022 that made JFK8 the most talked about warehouse in America, save for some tattered...
It’s impossible to overstate the devotion that Liverpool fans have to their soon-departing manager, Jurgen Klopp. Picking the team up from mid-table...
The biggest challenge that the Department of Justice has in winning its antitrust case against Apple Inc. is this: The iPhone is really, really...
There are many reasons Apple Inc.’s stock hasn’t been so hot lately, but a big one is that investors feel the company lacks a compelling...
As senators squabble about the theoretical vulnerability of those who use TikTok, they might want to find more time to give greater consideration to a...
It’s panic stations at TikTok. Last week’s lightning-fast creation of a bill that would force the platform’s divestiture or bar it in the US,...
Last year, when I described Apple Inc.’s 2023 as “miserable,” my inbox took something of a battering. Many readers questioned how I could...
On TikTok Shop, the e-commerce bazaar from the popular video-sharing app, a truly fantastic deal is being offered. A user called “Basketball...
What could Apple have done with the humble automobile? Ideas, some credible and others less so, have dripped out for a decade. For a time, the company...
Reddit’s prospectus for its initial public offering finally dropped on Thursday, complete with the customary list of “risk factors” that the...
In June 2023, a California man named Wilbert Napoleon renewed his yearly subscription to Amazon Prime at the recently increased price of $139. Part of...
Had he known ChatGPT was going to change the world, Sam Altman said last year, he would have spent more time considering what to call it. “It’s a...
The other day I did something I haven’t done for years. I browsed Facebook. By which I mean: I really took a look around. Good grief, what a mess!...
Thanks to the humble cookie, our favorite websites can remember us, greeting our return visits like a conscientious barista. But also thanks to these...
By now, we all know the routine: An early start. A line down the street. Apple Inc. store employees whooping and hollering with such coordination it...
Meta Platforms Inc.’s efficiency-obsessed investors don’t like to see the company spend money. Unless — and this will shock you — it’s going...
As the market prepares for Apple Inc.’s earnings on Thursday, all I can think is this: Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has problems. Plenty of...
If artificial intelligence is going to live up to the hype, Goldman Sachs analysts said recently, the excitement stage of AI needs to shift...
The earliest mention I can find of Reddit Inc.’s ambitions for an initial public offering comes from a Variety report in 2017 — the online...
The first time I met Satya Nadella, I committed what I thought was a cringeworthy faux pas. It was summer 2015, and he was just over a year into his...
We’ve had almost a year now to assess whether Microsoft Corp.’s plan to add ChatGPT to its Bing search engine made any difference in the great...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a blow to those who want to see Apple Inc.’s walled garden come crumbling down. The court declined to hear...
It’s generally accepted that Mark Zuckerberg, in the two years since he renamed Facebook to Meta Platforms Inc., has done a poor job of selling his...
Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving unit Waymo announced on Monday that it plans to unleash its cars onto the freeway in Phoenix “soon.” The city has...
Already it’s being referred to as the “Season of Swatting.” In the past couple of weeks, political figures on both the left and the right have...
Earlier this year, my left ear, previously every bit as capable as my right, started letting me down. I at first had many explanations for this — a...
It didn’t receive much fanfare outside of tech circles, but Meta Platforms Inc. took a pretty monumental step last week. For the first time, it...
Barring a last minute (and unlikely) presidential veto, the Apple Watch is largely coming off US shelves. Starting Thursday, Apple Inc. will stop...
A San Francisco jury took less than four hours to decide on Monday that Google was running an illegal monopoly designed to exact huge fees from app...
With the reinstatement of Alex Jones on X this week, Elon Musk is playing with fire. Precedent suggests X is teetering on the brink of a ban for...
So how about that? When Amazon.com Inc. faces real competition, it lowers its prices. Drastically so, it turns out: Starting next year, its...
When Spotify Technology SA ditches two popular and award-winning podcasts, does that tell us more about the company or the viability of the podcast...
“I have never been more excited about the future,” wrote Sam Altman, the reinstated chief executive officer of OpenAI, to his subordinates on...
Ever since Alan Turing’s “imitation game,” we’ve been acutely aware of the importance of measuring the capabilities of computers against our...
When the news hit late Friday afternoon that OpenAI had forced out founder and Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, almost immediately the comparisons...
The question of age verification on the internet has always been fraught. Every now and then, a usually well-intentioned politician sees requiring age...
I’m not totally yet sold on the idea of “social commerce.” The concept, already big in Asia, takes what was previously the role of the grinning...
Not long after President Joe Biden unveiled his sweeping executive order on artificial intelligence, it emerged he had enlisted some notable outside...