Sergey Brin says Google ‘definitely messed up’ with Gemini launch

Sergey Brin says Google ‘definitely messed up’ with Gemini launch

Sergey Brin, president of Alphabet and co-founder of Google David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google co-founder Sergey Brin, in a rare public appearance over the weekend, told a group of artificial intelligence enthusiasts that he came out of retirement “because the trajectory of AI is so exciting.” Brin, 50, spoke to entrepreneurs … Read more

A big fine in Europe adds to Apple’s 2024 woes. What it will take to get back on track

A big fine in Europe adds to Apple’s 2024 woes. What it will take to get back on track

Apple shares tumbled on Monday after European regulators hit the tech giant with a big antitrust fine over music streaming. This latest setback raises the question: How can Apple get its groove back? The European Commission dished out a $1.95 billion fine — claiming Apple violated competition laws in the music streaming market. It’s one … Read more

Google-backed Anthropic debuts Claude 3, its most powerful chatbot yet

Google-backed Anthropic debuts Claude 3, its most powerful chatbot yet

Anthropic on Monday debuted Claude 3, a suite of artificial intelligence models that it says are its fastest and most powerful yet. The new tools are called Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet and Haiku. The company said the most capable of the new models, Claude 3 Opus, outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini Ultra on industry … Read more

Telcos are barely done rolling out 5G networks — and they’re already talking about ‘5.5G’

Telcos are barely done rolling out 5G networks — and they’re already talking about ‘5.5G’

You probably remember mobile operators raving about the promise of 5G several years ago. Now, they’re getting excited about a new upgrade: 5G Advanced. Angel Garcia | Bloomberg | Getty Images BARCELONA, Spain — Telecom operators haven’t yet finished rolling out 5G wireless mobile networks. And yet bosses of major carriers are already talking about … Read more

OpenAI says Musk claims in lawsuit ‘stem from Elon’s regrets’ he’s out

OpenAI says Musk claims in lawsuit ‘stem from Elon’s regrets’ he’s out

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta on Dec. 11, 2023. Dustin Chambers | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI executives disputed claims Elon Musk laid out in a lawsuit on Thursday, and said the Tesla CEO is upset that he’s no longer part of the artificial intelligence startup. … Read more

Waymo approved to expand robotaxi service in Los Angeles, SF peninsula

Waymo approved to expand robotaxi service in Los Angeles, SF peninsula

Passengers ride in an electric Waymo full self-driving technology in Santa Monica Allen J. Schaben | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Alphabet’s Waymo robotaxi unit won approval from the California Public Utilities Commission to expand service to parts of Los Angeles and the Bay Area, according to a notice posted to the regulator’s website … Read more

Google Gemini head removes social media profiles after product launch

Google Gemini head removes social media profiles after product launch

Betul Abali | Anadolu | Getty Images Jack Krawczyk, a Google artificial intelligence product lead, has pulled away from social media sites, including X and LinkedIn, after the troubled launch of the company’s AI image generator made him the target of online harassment. Krawczyk, who is typically active on social media, where he’s known to … Read more

Salesforce, Palo Alto and Apple, Wynn

Salesforce, Palo Alto and Apple, Wynn

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. (We’re no longer recording the audio, so we can get this new written feature to members as quickly as possible.) AI trade: Market gains accelerated since … Read more

Cohere says rivals are building Bugatti sports cars, ‘We make F150s’

Cohere says rivals are building Bugatti sports cars, ‘We make F150s’

Cohere president Martin Kon says a lot of the hot artificial intelligence startups on the market today are building the equivalent of fancy sports cars. His product, he says, is more like a heavy-duty truck. “If you’re looking for vehicles for your field technical service department, and I take you for a test drive in … Read more

Snowflake’s Slootman not worried about exodus: ‘not a personal cult’

Snowflake’s Slootman not worried about exodus: ‘not a personal cult’

Snowflake Chairman Frank Slootman attends the Snowflake Summit 2022 in Las Vegas on June 14, 2022. Snowflake | Via Reuters News of Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman’s retirement sparked an 18% plunge in the company’s stock price on Thursday, its steepest selloff since the data analytics software vendor debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in … Read more