Things have never been better for Shopify. The e-commerce firm’s stock is trading near all-time highs. And a recent deal with OpenAI has put Shopify in a position to capitalize on AI-fueled shopping by easily allowing its merchants to sell products through ChatGPT. And yet Shopify is seeing the kind of executive turnover normally associated with companies that are struggling. Read more ›
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Trials are great for airing technology executives’ private ruminations, including some of their most out-there strategies. Among the most extraordinary that have so far come to light in the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta Platforms is CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “potentially crazy idea” in 2022 for refreshing Facebook: erasing friend lists on the app—as frequently as every year—and having users start from scratch.That nuclear option could help users connect... Read more ›
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Tesla’s operating income dropped 66% and overall revenue was down 9% for the quarter compared to last year, driven by 20% lower automotive revenue and increased spending on artificial intelligence, the company reported Tuesday. The automaker produced and delivered fewer cars than any ... Read more ›
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The Trump administration is planning to push India to make it easier for U.S. e-commerce companies including Amazon and Walmart to operate in the country, as part of broader trade negotiations, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. While Indian e-commerce firms are allowed to produce and sell ... Read more ›
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Fahad Khan, a former Microsoft Research manager, is joining aerospace and defense contractor Northrop Grumman as director of strategic AI programs, he announced in a LinkedIn post. Khan’s hiring shows how firms that work with government agencies are increasingly looking for experienced AI ... Read more ›
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OpenAI would be interested in buying Google’s Chrome web browser if a court forced Google to sell it, an OpenAI executive testified on Tuesday in a court hearing related to how Google should be overhauled to remedy its illegal search monopoly. Nick Turley, head of product for ChatGPT, also testified that OpenAI had offered to pay Apple a share of revenue generated from queries to Apple’s AI chatbot that integrates... Read more ›
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Google has abandoned its plan to remove cookies from its Chrome web browser, giving up a privacy-driven effort that the company has been pursuing for at least five years, the company said Tuesday. Cookies track users across the web and help advertisers target and measure ads. Mozilla’s Firefox ... Read more ›
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Instagram could have grown independently without an acquisition by Meta Platforms, Kevin Systrom, the co-founder of the photo-sharing app, testified on Tuesday during the second week of an antitrust trial between the Federal Trade Commission and Meta. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg eventually treated ... Read more ›
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OpenAI reached out to Google last July to discuss accessing Google’s Search data to help develop its own SearchGPT product, according to testimony and emails presented in court on Tuesday. Google rejected that request on August 13, days after a federal judge ruled that it had an illegal monopoly ... Read more ›
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Healthcare providers and artificial intelligence vendors have touted AI’s potential to automatically interpret medical test results. But the technology still faces a major limitation: It struggles to do basic math. For example, Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot often can’t answer correctly whether a certain number falls within a given range.That’s a big problem for doctors using AI for medical tests. Without the ability to decide whether a number is within a... Read more ›
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The Washington Post is the latest publisher to sign a content licensing deal with OpenAI, the newspaper announced today. As a result of the deal, Washington Post reporting will appear in ChatGPT answers, but “always with clear attribution and direct links to full articles,” the Post said. OpenAI ... Read more ›
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OpenAI, Microsoft and Meta Platforms have approached Samsung about deals to put their AI chatbots onto Samsung phones, according to an internal Google presentation from September 2024 shown in court on Tuesday. A Google executive later testified that Motorola was also working with various AI ... Read more ›
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It’s no surprise that software developers love AI tools. (Just look at the revenue growth of Anysphere, the creator of the popular AI-powered code editing software Cursor, from my colleague Natasha’s feature on the startup last month.)You’ve probably read lots about the most obvious ways that developers are using AI models to speed up software development, including autocompleting lines of code, finding and fixing bugs and writing documentation. But here... Read more ›
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has said that by the end of the decade, 20% to 40% of the number of trips Uber completes in certain cities will be robotaxi rides. To drive that expansion, the ride-hailing company has staffed up over the past 14 months with autonomous vehicle experts from companies like Waymo and Nuro. Those new additions are part of the more than 60 leaders in a newly updated... Read more ›
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Is Google up to its old tricks in the new world of artificial intelligence? That’s what the government alleges. The Justice Department made a big deal in court today—as it argued how Google should be overhauled to remedy its search monopoly—with the charge that the tech giant was repeating its past sins in search in an effort to become dominant in the nascent field of AI. (For our detailed coverage... Read more ›
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Crypto companies Circle and BitGo plan to apply for bank charters or licenses, while Coinbase and Paxos are considering similar moves, the Wall Street Journal reported. Getting a national trust or industrial bank charters could enable crypto firms to directly take customer deposits, make loans, ... Read more ›
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Some customers of Amazon Bedrock, a cloud service for building applications that tap into AI models from a variety of providers, have grown frustrated in recent months because they’ve been unable to get a steady level of performance when accessing Anthropic’s Claude models, as we reported ... Read more ›
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Google used data from its search engine to train some of its AI large language models according to deposition testimony from a Google engineer shown in a Monday hearing on how to fix Google’s Search monopoly. In a separate internal email relating to training Google’s Gemini model, a Google ... Read more ›
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The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued Uber for “deceptive billing and cancellation practices” on its Uber One subscription service. The Uber One subscription service costs up to $9.99 a month and gives subscribers free delivery fees, discounts on rides and other perks like member-only ... Read more ›
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The judge overseeing a hearing to determine how to fix Google’s search monopoly on Monday questioned the government’s proposal that Google be forced to divest the Chrome browser while signaling support for requiring Google to share some search data with rivals, as the two sides presented their ... Read more ›
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If the Trump administration’s tariffs and other policies throw the economy into turmoil, cybersecurity stocks could be a safe haven for tech investors. Palo Alto Networks, one of the largest and best-diversified companies in a highly fragmented industry, has shown it can grow through slowdowns and will be relatively safe from tariffs. Palo Alto and some top names among smaller players, such as CrowdStrike, have held up better than the... Read more ›
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