Heading into the 2024 election in the U.S. and major political contests around the world, internet companies are unprepared for the onslaught of misinformation that’s coming. That’s according to research out Tuesday from Mozilla and CheckFirst, which concludes that leading tech platforms are lagging in their ad transparency tools. The study, conducted between December and … Read more
Google headquarters is seen in Mountain View, California, United States on May 15, 2023. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Google will begin removing links to California news websites from search results for some Californians in response to a bill that would require online ad companies to pay a fee for connecting state … Read more
Ryan Roslansky, CEO of Microsoft’s LinkedIn subsidiary, speaks at a LinkedIn event in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2016. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Influencer marketing has become big business on TikTok and Instagram, where popular creators can make good money by helping brands promote their stuff. Now, LinkedIn wants in the … Read more
My top 10 things to watch Thursday, April 11 The government’s second inflation report of the week was cooler. One day after Wednesday’s hotter consumer price index sank stocks, the smaller-than-expected rise in the March producer price index reversed early weakness in the market to the upside. How could so many prognosticators be so wrong … Read more
Alphabet ‘s cloud-computing summit left us feeling much better about the technology giant’s artificial intelligence efforts. There was a lot riding on the event , considering shares hovered near all-time highs heading into it and our general frustration around its AI execution, but the Club holding cleared our bar. Alphabet’s announcements Tuesday at Google Cloud … Read more
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, arrives for the Inaugural AI Insight Forum in the Russell Building on Capitol Hill on Sept. 13, 2023. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Nvidia and the Georgia Institute of Technology announced Wednesday the first artificial intelligence supercomputer designed for student use. The chipmaker’s graphics processing units … Read more
Who better than teenagers to know what’s trendy? Piper Sandler has released the spring edition of its semiannual “Taking Stock With Teens Survey,” with solid results for several names in our portfolio. We love scanning the report, which looks at a wide swath of Generation Z, roughly defined as people aged 11 to 26. In … Read more
Pat Gelsinger, CEO Intel, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 16th, 2024. Adam Galici | CNBC Intel on Tuesday unveiled its latest artificial intelligence chip, called Gaudi 3, as chipmakers rush to produce semiconductors that can train and deploy big AI models, such as the one underpinning … Read more
Disinformation is expected to be among the top cyber risks for elections in 2024. Andrew Brookes | Image Source | Getty Images Britain is expected to face a barrage of state-backed cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns as it heads to the polls in 2024 — and artificial intelligence is a key risk, according to cyber … Read more
We’ve become prisoners of short-rate forecasts. Yeah, the ones controlled by the Federal Reserve. But those fearless investors who have broken out of this self-imposed mental jail are enjoying bountiful returns. Sure, it appears to be nothing but alchemy to the jailers and their powerful protagonists in the media. But does it matter? They don’t … Read more
