Nation Oct 21 OpenAI launches browser to compete with Google’s Chrome OpenAI says it is introducing its own web browser, called Atlas, entering direct competition with Google as more users rely on AI for answers.
Nation Sep 30 YouTube to pay $24.5 million to settle lawsuit over Trump’s account suspension after Jan. 6 attack Alphabet, the parent of Google, is the third major technology company to settle a volley of lawsuits that Trump brought for what he alleged had unfairly muzzled him after his first term as president ended in January 2021.
Economy Sep 29 Video game maker Electronic Arts to be acquired and taken private for $55 billion It's the most expensive attempt to take a public company private. Under the terms of the deal announced Monday, the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, PIF and Affinity Partners will pay EA's stockholders $210 per share.
Nation Sep 23 TikTok’s algorithm to be licensed to U.S. joint venture led by tech giant Oracle and investment firm Silver Lake The proposal is aimed at resolving a long-running effort to wrest TikTok's U.S. operations its Chinese parent ByteDance owners because of privacy and security concerns.
Economy Sep 02 Judge orders search shakeup in Google monopoly case U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta stopped short of banning the multi-billion dollar deals that Google has been making for years to lock in its search engine as the default on smartphones, personal computers and other devices.
Economy Aug 27 Nvidia’s latest quarter shows signs of AI chip sales slump amid concerns of tech bubble The results announced Wednesday were hotly anticipated because Nvidia has emerged as key barometer of a two-year-old AI boom that has been propelling the stock market to new heights.
Nation Aug 25 Elon Musk sues Apple and OpenAI, alleging they are stifling AI competition The complaint casts OpenAI as a threat to humanity bent on putting profits before public safety as it tries to build on its phenomenal growth since the late 2022 release of ChatGPT.
Politics Aug 22 Trump says U.S. has gained 10% stake in Intel for $11.1 billion in government funds President Donald Trump on Friday announced the U.S. government has secured a 10% stake in struggling Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in a deal that was completed just a couple weeks after he was depicting the company's CEO as a conflicted…
Politics Aug 20 What to know about Trump’s bid for the U.S. government to own a piece of Intel The Trump administration is in talks to secure a 10% stake in Intel in exchange for converting government grants that were pledged to Intel under President Joe Biden.
Politics Aug 19 Trump administration vying to own a big stake in Intel after SoftBank’s $2 billion bet on company The ambitions that Lutnick confirmed in a televised interview with CNBC came the day after various news outlets reported on the negotiations between the Trump administration and Intel.