The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows
Now his AI company is celebrating a $200M Pentagon contract and new unit to get government business Brian Fagioli / NERDS.xyz : Elon Musk wants to infect the government with AI using Grok Brady Knox /...
Margrethe Vestager says Apple's decision not to launch its AI features in the EU is a “stunning, open declaration” of the company's anticompetitive behavior
With all the talk about how the EU believes Apple … Nehal Malik / iPhone in Canada Blog : Apple Intelligence Skipping Europe is Anticompetitive, Says EU Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics : Platform...
Alphabet plans to cut ~12,000 jobs, 6%+ of its global workforce; CEO Sundar Pichai says he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here”
read the memo CEO Sundar Pichai sent to staff Mary Yang / NPR : Google is cutting 12,000 jobs, adding to a series of Big Tech layoffs in January BBC : Google parent Alphabet to cut 12,000 jobs Abner L...
Kuo: Apple plans to release a mixed reality headset in mid-2022 for around $1K, followed by AR glasses by 2025 and “contact lens type” devices by 2030-2040
Mark Zuckerberg on the Future of AR and VR Oliver Haslam / Redmond Pie : Kuo: Apple's Mixed Reality Headset Will Have No Fewer Than 15 Cameras Tom Pritchard / Tom's Guide : Apple mixed reality headset...
A researcher says she archived 99.9% of posts on Parler, many with users' location data, as Apple, Google, and Amazon took the service offline
They're Blaming Amazon Instead Alison Durkee / Forbes : Parler Sues Amazon After Company Forces Social Media Site Offline Bernard Meyer / CyberNews : Data collection cheat sheet: how Parler, Twitter, ...
Apple releases a Catalyst-based Swift Playgrounds app for the Mac, which was built from the existing iPad version of the app
Learn real coding the fun way — Screenshots Jonny Evans / Computerworld : Apple's Mac Catalyst seems to be becoming very, very serious Andrew Orr / The Mac Observer : Apple's Swift Playgrounds App C...
CEOs of Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and others decry Trump's decision to withdraw US from Paris climate accord as Musk exits Trump advisory councils
and the move could spell bigger problems for Tesla Paris Martineau / New York Magazine : For an International Pact That's ‘Anti-Business,’ the Paris Agreement Sure Seems Popular in the Tech Industry J...
Sources: Apple has been conducting feasibility trials at clinical sites across the Bay Area for noninvasive and continuous blood sugar level monitoring tech
The place to measure glucose level … Brent Dirks / AppAdvice.com : Future Versions of the Apple Watch Could be Used to Monitor Diabetes William White / InvestorPlace : Thursday Apple Rumors: Possible ...
Nintendo discontinues the NES Classic Edition, which launched to high demand in November 2016
it wants your soul Mark Wilson / BetaNews : Nintendo discontinues NES Classic Edition Shane McGlaun / Technabob : Dicktendo Discontinues NES Classic Edition Console Richard Lawler / Engadget : The Mor...
Publishing and tech consulting firm IDG, which published Macworld, Computerworld, and PCWorld, retains Goldman Sachs to prepare for sale
Global publishing and consulting company in Framingham could be up for sale — Former IDG exec Colin Crawford reports that IDG has retained Goldman Sachs …