Memo: Tim Cook told Apple staff that he is “heartbroken by the events in Minneapolis”, calls for a “deescalation”, and says he discussed it with President Trump
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook became the latest executive to weigh in on the killing …
Amazon sues Perplexity, accusing it of computer fraud, after sending a cease-and-desist letter demanding it stop letting Comet make purchases on users' behalf
Amazon.com Inc. is suing Perplexity AI Inc. to try and stop the startup from helping users buy items on the world's largest online marketplace …
Amazon sues Perplexity, accusing it of computer fraud, after sending a cease-and-desist letter demanding it stop letting Comet make purchases on users' behalf
Amazon.com Inc. is suing Perplexity AI Inc. to try and stop the startup from helping users buy items on the world's largest online marketplace …
Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of “bullying” via an “aggressive legal threat” that demands it stop Comet Assistant purchases for users, who “love this experience”
The point of technology is to make life better for people. Laurent Giret / Thurrott : Amazon Sues Perplexity Over Comet's Agentic Shopping Capabilities M.G. Siegler / Spyglass : AI...
Sources: Apple plans AI web search, World Knowledge Answers, for a spring 2026 Siri revamp; Apple and Google this week agreed to test a Gemini model for Siri
Apple Inc. is planning to launch its own artificial intelligence-powered web search tool next year, stepping up competition with OpenAI and Perplexity AI Inc.
iVerify says it found the first evidence of an active spyware campaign targeting iPhones in the US and the EU; Apple fixed a flaw, but says it wasn't exploited
Researchers published new findings that they fear could be the first evidence of an active spyware campaign targeting iPhones in the U.S. and the European Union.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI may wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike US unemployment to 10%-20% in the next one to five years
Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of artificial intelligence — has a blunt, scary warning for the U.S. government and all of us:
TikTok says it will go dark in the US on Sunday unless the Biden admin provides a “definitive statement” to critical service providers assuring non-enforcement
TikTok said its services will go dark on Sunday without a guarantee from the Biden administration that it won't punish Apple …
Disney and Fubo announce a deal wherein Disney will combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo in a joint venture and Fubo will drop its Venu Sports antitrust lawsuit
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Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning. — Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …
Disney and Fubo announce a deal wherein Disney will combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo in a joint venture and Fubo will drop its Venu Sports antitrust lawsuit
Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery will pay Fubo $220 million to settle antitrust suit — Disney announced a deal …
Sources: Getty Images is exploring a merger with rival Shutterstock; Getty jumped 13% for a $983M market value, Shutterstock rose 7.9% for a $1.1B market value
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... X: David Clinch / @davidclinchnews : Getty has been looking for a way to sort out its complicated financial underpinning for years, this could pro...
The digital ad market, helped by US political ads, AI ad tools, and consumer spending, drove strong Q3 revenue growth for Alphabet, Meta, Snap, Reddit, and Roku
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The digital ad market, helped by US political ads, AI ad tools, and consumer spending, drove strong Q3 revenue growth for Alphabet, Meta, Snap, Reddit, and Roku
- Google's advertising revenue jumped more than 10% year-over-year, thanks in part to election-related ad spend, especially on YouTube …
After users reported that Meta's AI assistant incorrectly claimed the attempted assassination of Donald Trump did not happen, Meta blames hallucinations
Meta's AI assistant incorrectly said that the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump didn't happen …
Meta says it will soon roll back restrictions on Donald Trump's Instagram and Facebook accounts to ensure parity among candidates ahead of the 2024 election
It's making the change to ensure parity among presidential candidates leading up to the 2024 election More on @axios https://www.axios.com/... Forums: r/technology : Exclusive: Met...
Meta says it will soon roll back restrictions on Donald Trump's Instagram and Facebook accounts to ensure parity among candidates ahead of the 2024 election
- While those penalties were designed to limit any public figure's accounts during civil unrest, Donald Trump's accounts …
Source: a16z has secured thousands of AI chips, including Nvidia H100 GPUs, and is renting them to portfolio companies, with the aim of expanding to 20K+ GPUs
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Sources: OpenAI discussed training GPT-5 on public YouTube video transcripts; AI industry's need for high-quality text data may outstrip supply within two years
Sources: OpenAI discussed training GPT-5 on public YouTube video transcripts; AI industry's need for high-quality text data may outstrip supply within two years
Firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic are working to find enough information to train next-generation artificial-intelligence models