Just a day after chip giants Nvidia and TSMC saw their stock prices rise, opposite fortunes are affecting competitor Arm Holdings. Yesterday after the close of the markets, Arm reported its first quarter results for fiscal year 2025, and in pre-market trading this morning, its shares (ticke
Amazon.com is expected to join Google and Microsoft on Thursday in reporting a surge in capital spending on artificial intelligence as Big Tech companies rush to capitalize on the booming t
In February of 2017, Tom Rutledge, then-CEO of the telecom giant Charter, was asked on an investor call how changes in Washington were about to impact the company. At the time, analysts were curious about what would happen if the newly inaugurated Trump administration overturned the net neutrality rules that the Obama administration had put in place.
MrBeast, YouTube’s biggest star and a philanthropic force with nearly unrivaled influence among young audiences, acknowledged Wednesday that he used “inappropriate language” in his early online days, as numerous controversies bubbled up around him and a former collaborator.
MrBeast, whose
Direct-to-consumer genetic testing pioneer 23andMe unveiled a new product in May. Cofounder and CEO Anne Wojcicki had long promised that 23andMe would democratize genetics and, in the process, unleash a health revolution based on personalized genomic insights. But the company’s newest feature was decidedly more mundane: Through its telehealth service,
Large language models (LLMs) like those powering OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude chatbots tend to produce responses aligned with left-of-center political beliefs, according to a new study of 24 major AI products that was published in the journal PLOS One.
David Rozado at Otago Polytechnic University in New Zealand administered 11 different popular political ori
I spend a lot of time talking to people about privacy and security, and I’ve come to recognize a pervasive learned helplessness: “All my information is out there already,” or “That ship has sailed.” I believe this helplessness comes from a mistaken sense that the problem is too big to be solved.
Many of us are painfully aware that our data is tracked and collected across our devices and apps. More
Google is joining the growing number of companies standing up to sexually explicit deepfakes.
The Alphabet division has made it easier for users to report nonconsensual imagery found in search results, including those made by artificial intelligence tools. While it was previously possible for users to request the removal of these images prior to the update, under the new policy whenever that request is granted, the company will scan for duplicates of the nonconsensual image and rem
Investors are getting back together with Match Group after the dating giant indicated the worst was behind it in its second quarter earnings. That confidence sent shares up more than 14% Wednesday afternoon.
Match posted better-than-expected results for the second quarter. A key indicator was that Tinder, its star app, posted a smaller decline in paying users than in the previous quarter, with its 9.6 million paying users even being slightly ahead than Wall Street estimates.