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Pressure builds on Apple as Jony Ive teams with OpenAI

Pressure builds on Apple as Jony Ive teams with OpenAI

Apple CEO Tim Cook, left, and Apple chief design officer Jony Ive look at the new Mac Pro during the 2019 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, or WWDC, at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California, June 3, 2019. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Before Jony Ive left Apple in 2019, no major Apple … Read more

OpenAI buys iPhone designer Jony Ive device startup for $6.4 billion

OpenAI buys iPhone designer Jony Ive device startup for .4 billion

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman appears on screen during a talk with Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella at the Microsoft Build 2025, conference in Seattle, Washington on May 19, 2025. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images OpenAI said on Wednesday that it’s buying Jony Ive’s AI devices startup io for … Read more

Grok’s ‘white genocide’ responses show gen AI tampered with ‘at will’

Grok’s ‘white genocide’ responses show gen AI tampered with ‘at will’

Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty Images In the two-plus years since generative artificial intelligence took the the world by storm following the public release of ChatGPT, trust has been a perpetual problem. Hallucinations, bad math and cultural biases have plagued results, reminding users that there’s a limit to how much we can rely … Read more

CoreWeave (CRWV) Q1 2025 earnings report

CoreWeave (CRWV) Q1 2025 earnings report

Shares of artificial intelligence infrastructure provider CoreWeave reported better-than-expected revenue on Wednesday in the company’s first earnings release since going public. The company also called for faster growth than expected for all of 2025. Here’s how CoreWeave did in comparison to LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: Loss of $1.49 Revenue: $981.6 million vs. $853 million … Read more

Databricks is buying database startup Neon for about $1 billion

Databricks is buying database startup Neon for about  billion

Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi. Databricks Data analytics startup Databricks said Wednesday that it’s buying Neon, a cloud-based database software vendor, for about $1 billion. It’s the latest big deal for Databricks, which bought artificial intelligence model training startup MosaicML for $1.3 billion in 2023 and paid over $1 billion last year for data … Read more

Tech’s strong ad sales are starting to crack from Trump’s trade war

Tech’s strong ad sales are starting to crack from Trump’s trade war

Mark Zuckerberg arrives before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States takes place inside the Capitol Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. Kenny Holston | Via Reuters The digital advertising market was sunny enough for investors this past quarter, providing what could … Read more

Alphabet shares sink on report Apple may add AI search to its browser

Alphabet shares sink on report Apple may add AI search to its browser

Eddy Cue, senior vice president of internet software and services at Apple Inc., speaks during a keynote session at the South By Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Monday, March 12, 2018. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet and Apple shares sank Wednesday after Eddy Cue, Apple’s services chief, said … Read more

AWS Q1 earnings report 2025

AWS Q1 earnings report 2025

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during an unveiling event in New York on Feb. 26, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon’s cloud business grew at a slower pace than expected in the first quarter, a third straight revenue miss. Revenue at Amazon Web Services increased 17% to $29.27 billion, while analysts polled … Read more

Amazon (AMZN) Q1 earnings report 2025

Amazon (AMZN) Q1 earnings report 2025

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, speaks during an unveiling event in New York on Feb. 26, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon reported better-than-expected results for the first quarter, but it gave soft guidance for the current period as the company navigates uncertainty around President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. The stock fell … Read more

Reddit Q1 earnings report 2025

Reddit Q1 earnings report 2025

Reddit reported first-quarter revenue on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations, and issued better-than-expected guidance. The stock initially soared by as much as 19% in after-hours trading, but receded to around 5% when executives discussed the shaky economy and Google search-related challenges. Here’s how the company did compared with LSEG estimates: Earnings per share: 13 cents … Read more