Alphabet
Apple to urge judge to end US smartphone monopoly case
Apple will ask a federal judge to dismiss the case accusing the iPhone maker of unlawfully dominating the smartphone market, in the latest Big Tech antitrust showdown.
AI
Google brings AI answers to map applications
Alphabet’s Google on Thursday announced a set of features that incorporated Gemini, its artificial intelligence chatbot, into its suite of mapping applications.
AI
Apple Set for Biggest Revenue Jump in Two Years on IPhone Demand in China
Apple is expected to report its biggest quarterly revenue jump in two years, with iPhone demand faring better than recent years toward the end of the company’s annual release cycle
Amazon
Amazon AWS CEO: Quit if you don’t want to return to office
One of Amazon’s top executives defended the new, controversial 5-day-per-week in-office policy on Thursday.
AI
Google’s Nobel prize winners stir debate over AI research
The award of Nobel prizes in chemistry and physics to a small number of AI pioneers affiliated with Google has stirred debate over the company’s research dominance.
Adam Kovacevich
US plan to break up Google’s search dominance threatens profit engine, AI growth
The U.S. Department of Justice’s proposed remedies to break up Google’s search dominance could weaken its main profit engine and stall its advances in AI.
AI
Meta, challenging OpenAI, announces new AI model that can generate video with sound
Meta announced it had built a new AI model called Movie Gen that can create realistic-seeming video and audio clips in response to user prompts.
Baltics
U.S. And Microsoft Team Up To Take Hold Of Dozens Of Domains Tied To Russian Hacking Group
U.S. authorities have seized dozens of internet domains used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies to steal vital information from U.S. government computers and email accounts, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced on Thursday.
AI
Microsoft revamps AI Copilot with new voice, reasoning capabilities
Microsoft has given Copilot a more amiable voice in its latest update, with the chatbot also capable of analyzing web pages.
Advanced Micro Devices
Wall Street: Dow Skyrockets To All-Time High After Fed Delivers Rate Cut
Wall Street had another big day with the Dow and S&P 500 hitting another intraday record high, just a day after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by half-a-percentage point and forecasted that more cuts could be coming.