Kevin Mazur | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Media giants are making their annual pitches to advertisers this week against the backdrop of significant disruption in the industry. The Hollywood writers and actors strikes are over, meaning Upfronts will likely be star-studded once again, major cost cutting is largely in the rear view mirror … Read more
A Microsoft logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen and Amazon logo in the background in Athens, Greece on October 5, 2023. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Microsoft and Amazon are ploughing billions of dollars into France. Microsoft said in a statement Monday that it’s committing 4 billion euros ($4.3 billion) toward expanding its … Read more
Demis Hassabis is a celebrated name in artificial intelligence research. He’s a chess master and a neuroscientist. On Wall Street, he’s less known. That may not be true for long. Hassabis is emerging as the face of Google’s mammoth AI effort and on Tuesday will take the stage at the annual developer’s conference, Google I/O, … Read more
If you want a job that will let you travel and work from anywhere in the world, you may be in luck with a new marketing or tech role. Even as more companies pull back on flexibility, employers in these fields are doubling down on their commitment to a flexible work model, according to new … Read more
Brad Smith, vice chair and president of Microsoft, speaks at Gateway Technical College in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, on May 8, 2024. Alex Wroblewski | Bloomberg | Getty Images A House committee wants Microsoft‘s top lawyer, Brad Smith, to attend a hearing this month on exploits of the company’s software that resulted in hackers obtaining U.S. government … Read more
The TikTok logo is pictured outside the company’s U.S. head office in Culver City, California, U.S., September 15, 2020. Mike Blake | Reuters TikTok is starting to automatically label videos and images made with artificial intelligence, the company said on Thursday. AI-generated content on the app will now be tagged with “Content Credentials,” a digital … Read more
Just_super | E+ | Getty Images Big technology companies are consuming as much data as possible to become winners in artificial intelligence — but that’s not necessarily what will define winners, according to the boss of software giant Appian. Matt Calkins, CEO and co-founder of Appian, said that though internet giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and … Read more
Alex Kendall, 29, is the co-founder and CEO of autonomous driving startup Wayve. Source: Wayve British startup Wayve on Tuesday said it had raised $1.05 billion in an investment round led by Japan’s SoftBank to accelerate the growth of its self-driving car technology. The Series C funding round included new investor U.S. chipmaker Nvidia and … Read more
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said the market sell-off may have reached an end, noting that the averages rallied on Monday and “maybe the worst is behind us.” ‘”I think the sell-off could finally be over,” he said. “Stop waiting for a correction to give you better buying opportunities, we just had one for heaven’s sake.” Cramer … Read more
A building of Stockholm Exergi in Stockholm, Sweden, Sept. 5, 2022. He Miao | Xinhua | Getty Images Microsoft signed a deal to remove to permanently remove 3.3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide with Swedish energy company Stockholm Exergi, the companies announced on Monday. The contract with Microsoft is the world’s largest carbon removal … Read more
