The Rabbit r1 shipped half-baked, but that’s kind of the point

techcrunch.com I finally received the rabbit r1 (the company insists on this lowercase styling) I’ve been writing about since its debut at CES in January. And I was able to tell within…

Move Over, Nvidia: Billionaire Dan Loeb Is Betting on This Dividend-Paying Magnificent Seven Stock to Win the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Race Instead

finance.yahoo.com Many savvy technology investors and entrepreneurs agree: The AI revolution is the real deal, and will likely transform our lives in the years to come. But unlike other…

The ending of Google's monopoly trial has Silicon Valley on edge

aol.com Google has a lot at stake as a federal judge weighs whether the tech giant’s search empire should be broken up. So does the rest of Silicon Valley. A landmark antitrust case…

There's a messy battle over AI going on in DC

businessinsider.com President Joe Biden's 2023 executive order on "Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence" has been his biggest contribution to regulating…

The future of AI is helping us discover the past

reason.com Joanna Andreasson/DALL-E4 In February, Google released an upgraded version of its Gemini artificial intelligence model. It quickly became a publicity disaster, as people…

AI could drive a natural gas boom as power companies face surging electricity demand

cnbc.com Natural gas producers are planning for a significant spike in demand over the next decade, as artificial intelligence drives a surge in electricity consumption that…

The largest yachts owned by tech billionaires, from Mark Zuckerberg to Jeff Bezos

aol.com None Megayachts have become a status symbol for the richest of the rich. • None In recent years, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg have splurged on enormous boats. • None These…

Is AI like the internet, or something stranger?

reason.com AI Is Like a Bad Metaphor By David Brin Joanna Andreasson/DALL-E4 The Turing test—obsessed geniuses who are now creating AI seem to take three clichéd outcomes for granted:…

5 big analyst AI moves: Investors ‘struggling to understand’ Apple AI approach By

investing.com Investing.com -- Here are the biggest analyst moves in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) for this week. InvestingPro subscribers always get first dibs on…

ElevenLabs Is Building an Army of Voice Clones

theatlantic.com Updated at 3:05 p.m. ET on May 4, 2024 My voice was ready. I’d been waiting, compulsively checking my inbox. I opened the email and scrolled until I saw a button that said,…

Pro Research: Wall Street eyes Alphabet's robust growth potential By

investing.com In the dynamic landscape of technology and internet services, Alphabet (NASDAQ: ) Inc., the parent company of Google, stands as a global behemoth, with its tentacles spread…

Disney may give stocks reason to cheer

thestreet.com Sometimes bad news is good news. It certainly seemed that way on Friday. The Labor Department reported job growth in April waned from a big jump reported in March. Investors…

Google lays off workers, Tesla cans its Supercharger team and UnitedHealthcare reveals security lapses

techcrunch.com Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the week that was in tech. This edition’s a tad bittersweet for me — it’ll be my last…

Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW): This AI Stock Is Severely Underrated

finance.yahoo.com Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) stock is fresh off a nasty snowfall following its recent quarterly results that coincided with a surprising CEO change and disappointing guidance.…

Finding the Real in Artificial Intelligence

thedailyupside.com Even as investments in new companies slump, AI startups are still rolling in it. According to CBInsights, AI startups raised $42.5 billion in 2023, with generative AI…

3 Robotics Stocks With the Potential to Make You an Overnight Millionaire

investorplace.com Despite market caution, the long-term potential of robotics stocks is undeniable Robotics is one of the biggest multi-year trends that investors should monitor. Sure, the…

Apple shows its steepest quarterly decline in iPhone sales since pandemic's outset

npr.org Apple shows its steepest quarterly decline in iPhone sales since pandemic's outset Apple on Thursday disclosed its steepest quarterly decline in iPhone sales since the…

Women in AI: Tara Chklovski is teaching the next generation of AI innovators

techcrunch.com To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused on…

The internet is in decline

theguardian.com Browsing through a history of online public messaging last week, I came across a magical photograph from 1989 or 1990. It shows the world’s first web server. It was Tim…

'The Google effect' can lead you into this common mental trap

cnbc.com We've all Googled a question and taken the top link as fact, without digging any more into the credibility of the source. Relying too heavily on the search engine, though,…

'Quiet hiring' is silently revolutionising the workplace

euronews.com Instead of constantly expanding the workforce through external hires, companies are increasingly focusing on upskilling and retraining the talent right under their noses, to…

A Once-in-a-Generation Investment: 1 AI Stock You Don’t Want to Miss Out On

247wallst.com Investing in artificial intelligence (AI) may seem to come down to shelling out hundreds of dollars a share for big tech stocks or trying to choose from the many AI startups…

Ready to Invest in Artificial Intelligence in 2024? 2 Stocks to Buy and Hold for Decades (Hint: They're Not Nvidia)

finance.yahoo.com Artificial intelligence (AI) is probably the most talked-about investment area right now -- and for good reason. The AI market is expected to expand at a double-digit…

Red Bull wasn't happy with Zak Brown's comments after Adrian Newey's exit

newsweek.com Red Bull has responded to comments made by McLaren CEO Zak Brown about the departure of the team's chief technical officer, Adrian Newey. Brown speculated on further…

Apple Watch Sales Disappoint

247wallst.com Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) disappointing earnings proved that the company’s run as a growth stock is over for now. Quarterly revenue dropped 4% year over year to $90.8 billion.…

45 Best Fully Remote Jobs You Can Apply for in May 2024

tech.co Working from home is more than just a popular employee perk. Whether you’re pressed for time to run errands or share childcare responsibilities with your spouse, remote work…

Magnificent Seven Stocks: Nvidia Stock Rallies Above Key Level; Apple Soars On Earnings

investors.com Dubbed the Magnificent Seven stocks, Apple, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta Platforms and Tesla lived up to their name in 2023 with big gains. But…

Not even artificial intelligence can make central planning work

reason.com Joanna Andreasson/DALL-E4 The term wicked problem has become a standard way for policy analysts to describe a social issue whose solution is inherently elusive. Wicked…

Apple remains Buffett’s biggest public stock holding, but his thesis about its moat faces questions

cnbc.com Berkshire Hathaway 's Warren Buffett was still using a flip phone as late as 2020, four years after his investment behemoth started amassing a huge stake in the company that…

Stock Market Crash Alert: 7 Must-Buy Nasdaq Stocks When Prices Plunge

investorplace.com These Nasdaq stocks to buy are firing on all cylinders after reporting blowout quarterly earnings The market has been pulling back for the past few weeks and that is the…

Google's former CEO lists $24.5 million mansion in most expensive ZIP code in the US

aol.com May 4, 2024 at 5:12 AM • None Eric Schmidt, Google's ex-CEO, is selling his Atherton mansion for $24.5 million. • None The property, located in the most expensive US zip…

Thirty Years Later, a Speed Boost for Quantum Factoring

quantamagazine.org Quantum computers derive their power from the peculiar way they process information. Classical computers use bits, each of which must always be in one of two states, labeled…

‘There are so many benefits’: why more and more Britons are building a home sauna

theguardian.com They are de rigueur in Scandinavian and Nordic countries, with as many as one for every household in Finland, where the old saying goes: “First build the sauna, then the…

What do we make of Apple's plan B for a down quarter

theregister.com Kettle Apple had a moderately glum first three months of the year, though the iGiant found a way to keep the most important people happy. Yes, we mean Wall St. Was it to…

Tech titans love Modi's economic powerhouse India

businessinsider.com Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kevin Frayer/Getty The Indian economy has grown strongly under Narendra Modi, whose party is set to win another term. India's success…

Mark Zuckerberg Is Now California's Richest Billionaire

growthglidepath.com With investments in artificial intelligence and a focus on reducing expenses, the CEO of Meta has strengthened his reputation and expanded his real estate holdings in the…

Google Engineers On Learnings From Building Gemini

youtube.com Three Google engineers, James Rubin, Peter Danenberg and Peter Grabowski, discuss what they're learned so far working on ...

Markets News, May 3, 2024: Stocks End Higher After Benign Jobs Data; Major Indexes Post 2nd Straight Week of Gains

investopedia.com News that employers added fewer jobs than expected in April sent stocks sharply higher amid investor optimism that a long-awaited cooling of the economy could be on the…

Synergy Research: cloud revenue grew 21% YoY in Q1 2024 to $76B; Altimeter: AWS now has 31% market share followed by Azure with 25% and Google with 11%

techcrunch.com Cloud revenue accelerates 21% to $76 billion for the latest earnings cycle Last year’s doldrums are in the rearview thanks to AI If you were concerned about slowing cloud…

Sui Turns One: Debut Year of Growth and Tech Breakthroughs Puts Sui at Forefront of Web3

cryptopotato.com [PRESS RELEASE – Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, May 3rd, 2024] Protocol launches, growth trajectory, and industry-leading technology point toward more success to come On the…

As Google’s antitrust trial wraps, DOJ seeks sanctions over missing messages

theverge.com The government is trying to show that Google locked up key distribution channels for the general search engine market, so that would-be rivals could not grow into…

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal's Krutrim launches an Android app for its eponymous AI chatbot as the startup prepares to launch its developer offerings on May 4

moneycontrol.com Krutrim, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup launched by Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal, has launched a standalone Android app for its eponymous AI chatbot that intends to…

Potential TikTok ban threatens the US business of China’s cross-border sellers and the global ambitions of ByteDance

scmp.com But after US President Joe Biden last month signed into law a bill requiring TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance to divest the platform’s US operations in 270 days or face a…

Google employees have mostly ignored the DOJ's antitrust case, and some expect only small business tweaks and some fines; closing arguments concluded on May 3

nytimes.com On Tuesday, Google’s employees gathered for an all-hands meeting named T.G.I.F. These companywide meetings are rarely held on Fridays these days, but the name has stuck.…

U.S. Google Moves Jobs to BRICS Countries

watcher.guru U.S. Google laid off more than 200 ‘core’ employees and moved the jobs to foreign countries for cost-cutting measures. Google’s U.S. headquarters will move the job positions…

OpenAI Could Challenge Google and Perplexity With AI-Powered Search: Reports

decrypt.co Already top of mind in the red-hot artificial intelligence space, OpenAI could be working on an AI-powered search engine to challenge tech titan Google, as well as the…

Google updates its ad policy to ban the promotion of services that generate, distribute, or store synthetic sexually explicit content, starting May 30, 2024

seroundtable.com Google Ads, Shopping Ads, Admob, and other Google Ads products will soon disallow deepfake sexual content, synthetic sexually explicit content, or synthetic content…

Relax, Google's drop in search market share in April was just an illusion

theregister.com Google's share of web searches appeared to suffer an unusually large drop in April, according to StatCounter. But the metrics biz now says that's incorrect. The Chocolate…

Why the Google antitrust trial could change how we use the internet

pbs.org A landmark antitrust trial between the Department of Justice and Google is coming to an end. The tech giant is accused of monopolizing the internet search market, sidelining…

Google, Justice Department make final arguments about whether search engine is a monopoly

apnews.com Google’s preeminence as an internet search engine is an illegal monopoly propped up by more than $20 billion spent each year by the tech giant to lock out competition,…

Not all traffic sources are created equal

simonowens.substack.com Welcome! I'm Simon Owens and this is my media industry newsletter. If you've received it, then you either subscribed or someone forwarded it to you. If you fit into the…

A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs

techcrunch.com A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs From major layoffs at Tesla, Amazon and Microsoft to small fintech startups and apps The tech layoff wave is still going strong in…

This Week in AI: Anthropic Goes to iPhone, AI Programming, Europe’s Rise

pymnts.com This week in artificial intelligence, Anthropic is launching its first smartphone app. In computer programming, AI is rapidly reshaping practices from Silicon Valley to…