The Federal Trade Commission is continuing its broad antitrust probe into Microsoft that it opened last year, and has in recent weeks met with representatives of other companies to ask about Microsoftâs conduct, according to someone involved in the discussions. The move indicates that FTC ... Read more âș
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Influencer marketing budgets are still expected to grow in the U.S., but the fate of TikTokâs future in the country, as well as economic uncertainty spurred by the Trump administrationâs tariffs, could contribute to a slowdown in growth this year. Spending on U.S. influencer marketing is expected to rise 15% to $10.5 billion in 2025, representing a significant growth slowdown from last year, when spending rose nearly 24%, according to... Read more âș
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The groups of buyers circling TikTokâs U.S. operations are likely to find it a more svelte company than it was a year ago, after a string of senior managers left the popular video app. At least eight TikTok executives, including music chief Ole Obermann, global head of litigation Emily Stubbs and Sameer Singh, head of North American ad sales, have left TikTok or announced their departures since the beginning of... Read more âș
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission asked a judge on Wednesday to delay the start of a trial in its case alleging that Amazon unlawfully tricked people into signing up for Prime subscriptions, then withdrew the request later in the day. In a Seattle federal court hearing on Wednesday, the FTC ... Read more âș
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Intel named former Cadence Design Systems chief Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO, sending its stock up 12%. The appointment follows the departure of Pat Gelsinger as CEO in December as it struggled to compete in the market for artificial intelligence chips and its stock price tanked. Tan had stepped ... Read more âș
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Google on Wednesday announced two new artificial intelligence models to power robots, built on top of its most recent main Gemini model. In a press release, Google said that one of the models combines vision, language and physical action capabilities; the other has advanced spatial ... Read more âș
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Niantic, the creator of PokĂ©mon Go, is selling its games business to the Saudi-owned mobile developer Scopely for $3.5 billion. In addition, Niantic shareholders will receive $350 million in cash from Nianticâs balance sheet as part of the deal. As part of the transaction, Niantic is spinning ... Read more âș
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Binance, the worldâs biggest crypto exchange, announced it has received a $2 billion investment from MGX, an Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund. The minority stake in Binance marks the first crypto bet by MGX, which has invested in artificial intelligence startups including OpenAI and ... Read more âș
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Marc Loreâs food delivery company Wonder has acquired the media company Tastemade for $90 million, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Tastemade, which produces food, travel and home videos, had raised more than $130 million from investors including Amazon, Comcast and Goldman Sachs, ... Read more âș
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BNY, the nationâs oldest bank, is expanding the services it handles for stablecoin giant Circle, the latest sign that U.S. banking access for the crypto industry is easing under a friendlier regulatory environment. The bank will allow some clients to send money to and from Circle through BNY for purchase or sale of Circleâs stablecoins, people with knowledge of the development said. Previously, Circleâs clients had to use smaller banks... Read more âș
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Humanoid robots that walk around on two legs have been attracting attention and money, but they are still a long way off from being mass produced. Traditional robots that donât have legs, however, are moving ahead in places like agricultural fields, stores and warehouses.One example is Mech, an artificial intelligence-powered robot for logistics jobs unveiled this week by Dexterity, a startup founded by seven Stanford University-educated engineers. On Tuesday, the... Read more âș
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In early 2023, Nvidia was seeing near-endless demand for its artificial intelligence chips. Cloud computing giants such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud were increasing their orders, sending Nvidiaâs revenue to new heights. Developers were scrambling to access the chips, which were hard to come by. Then Nvidia made a curious move: It agreed to spend $1.3 billion over four years to rent its own chips from... Read more âș
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Manus, a new artificial intelligence agent that has gone viral on social media, announced that it is teaming up with Alibaba Group to offer its service to users in China. Manus, launched last week on an invitation-only basis, has attracted a lot of attention based on a demo video that impressed ... Read more âș
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has pitched to Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices, Broadcom, and Qualcomm about taking a stake in a joint venture to operate Intelâs loss-making foundry division, which manufactures chips for companies based on their designs and specifications, Reuters ... Read more âș
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Applied Intuition, an eight-year-old developer of simulation software for training self-driving vehicles, is in talks with investors to raise capital at a $15 billion valuation, more than double its valuation from a year ago, according to a person with direct knowledge of the discussions. Existing investor Kleiner Perkins is in talks to lead the round. The potential fundraising would follow a bumper year for the Mountain View, Calif., company. It... Read more âș
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Iâm just back from the tech and arts festival South by Southwest in Austin. TikTok was there: it held a private, invite-only âleadership summitâ on Monday as well as a happy hour. TikTok staffers talked up products such as Symphony, its suite of AI tools to make it easier to create content for the app. Executives scheduled to speak included Blake Chandlee, the president of global business solutions, and Esme... Read more âș
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We saw a muted recovery in some tech stocks on Tuesday, but there were a few notable exceptions. One was Asana, which makes a workplace collaboration software tool and is also known as the second act of Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. The stock plunged 24% today, the day after the company reported a middling quarterâand, perhaps more surprisingly, announced that Moskovitz is stepping down as CEO.Moskovitz isnât departing completelyâheâs staying... Read more âș
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Venture capitalists backing Hinge Health, which sells software to help people dealing with chronic pain, were likely cheering on Monday when the company filed to go public. It turned out to be the worst day of the year for the stock market, with the S&P 500 falling nearly 3%. Hinge was one of the few tech firms to attempt to go public this year, and the first with significant backing... Read more âș
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OpenAI on Tuesday released a set of new application programming interfaces and tools to help developers build agents, software that can take actions on behalf of customers, according to a company blog post. These include tools to help developers make agents that can search the web and cite ... Read more âș
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Seemingly every week, a large company in an old, regulated industry is taking the cover off an artificial intelligence application that would have seemed unthinkable just a few years ago.The latest example is Fiserv, a 41-year-old provider of software for thousands of financial firms to process payments, manage operations and provide banking services to their own clients. Read more âș
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