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Google announced on Thursday that it will begin rolling out Gemini to cars with Google built-in, marking a significant upgrade from the current Google Assistant.
Elon Musk’s X is still trying to woo back advertisers — this time with a rebuilt, AI-powered ads platform that started to roll out on Thursday. The tech company initially struggled to grow ad revenue in the first few years of Musk’s reign, leading it to shift its focus to other monetization channels
LG is currently engaged in exploratory discussions with NVIDIA concerning physical AI, data centres, and mobility.Following a meeting in Seoul between LG CEO Ryu Jae-cheol and Madison Huang, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Omniverse and Robotics at NVIDIA, the core operational dependencies
Meta doesn’t come up much in discussions of the top AI products these days, but its products are still benefiting from the ongoing surge of interest in the technology.
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Every cloud beat. Every capex forecast rose. That is the two-sentence summary of the biggest earnings day of 2026, and it tells you almost everything you need to know about where Big Tech’s AI infrastructure spending actually stands right now.Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon collectively commit
澳大利亚金融监管机构警告金融机构，AI代理的治理和保障实践存在严重不足。随着银行和养老金受托人在内部和面向客户的操作中扩大AI应用，澳大利亚审慎监管局在2025年底对部分大型受监管实体进行了针对性审查，发现AI治理存在显著控制缺口。这一警示凸显了全球金融业在AI快速部署中的监管挑战。
a year ago, MG was leading the relatively normal life of a twentysomething in Scottsdale, Arizona. She worked as a personal assistant and supplemented her income by waiting tables on the weekends.
Many people are hoping—nay, praying—that the potential AI bubble will burst soon. But to hear Google tell it, generative AI is the future, and the company’s products have to change to keep up with the technical reality.
APIs and MCPs are often mentioned in the same breath as ways that systems can exchange information, but they are designed differently and have different purposes.
career at the helm of some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies—cofounding LinkedIn and sitting on the boards of PayPal and OpenAI—Reid Hoffman recently turned his attention to health care.Hoffman’s startup, Manas AI, is building an AI engine that aims to fast-track the traditionally slow pro
Tech companies are racing to build out infrastructure that can further drive the automation boom. Now, Japanese multinational SoftBank reportedly plans to create a new company designed to automate the creation of that infrastructure.
Investor interest in Anthropic has reached a feverish pitch. The maker of the Claude AI assistant has received multiple preemptive offers to raise fresh capital of around $50 billion at a valuation in the $850 billion to $900 billion range, according to half a dozen sources familiar with the matter.
Amazon was one of several tech giants that on Wednesday beat Wall Street’s first-quarter earnings expectations, offering more financial evidence that the AI boom continues to reward companies that supply the picks and shovels. Amazon’s cloud business is the latest example.
Google Cloud, the business under parent company Alphabet that provides enterprise AI solutions, had a blowout first quarter, with revenues topping $20 billion for the time, a 63% increase from the same period last year.
Despite the lingering perception that no one really uses Copilot, Microsoft said Wednesday that its user base and engagement are growing for the AI tool that’s baked into M365 apps like Word, Excel, and Outlook email. M365 Copilot now has 20 million paid enterprise Copilot seats, Microsoft CEO Satya
to the witness stand on Wednesday to continue telling his side of the story in his legal battle against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was asked point-blank by a Wall Street analyst on Wednesday how its revised OpenAI partnership would impact Microsoft’s financials. He said that the new agreement was a good deal for everyone. “We feel good about our partnership with OpenAI.
When Meta released its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday evening, a colleague pointed out how Meta lost $4 billion on Reality Labs, the division responsible for its AR glasses, VR headsets, and VR software. I yawned at first. Meta losing $4 billion on Reality Labs just didn’t seem surprising.
Elon Musk came to a California federal court on Wednesday to argue that Sam Altman and his co-founders “stole a charity.” He left having admitted, under oath, that Tesla is not currently pursuing artificial general intelligence (AGI) — directly contradicting a tweet he’d posted just weeks earlier. I
