On Thursday, Alphabet announced its first-ever dividend and $70 billion stock buyback, which ecstatic investors and shot the stock up almost 16% after the bell. Alphabet’s financial performance for the three months ended March 31 was impressive. Sales reached $67.6
Meta Platforms, the company previously known as Facebook, rolled out its Llama3-powered AI chatbot feature on WhatsApp to users in more countries in the last few weeks, creating a buzz. WhatsApp users in the U.S. have already been using the
Google Nigeria has begun providing Artificial Intelligence (AI) training to journalists. With a commitment to inclusivity, Google Nigeria hosted its first Artificial Intelligence (AI) training in Lagos, ensuring that 25 female journalists, all esteemed members of the Nigeria Association of
Google and Intel on Tuesday launched their own AI chips to challenge Nvidia as the race to manufacture advanced semiconductors to power generative AI models like ChatGPT or Gemini intensifies. Google released its Cloud TPU v5p and Intel unveiled its
Google plans to start charging for AI-powered search features, as part of proposals to monetize its AI tools, marking a major shift from the company’s decades long ad-driven revenue model. One proposal, as first reported by the Financial Times, would
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit the east coast of Taiwan, disrupting production at major semiconductor manufacturers and threatening the global electronics supply chain, Bloomberg reports. Taiwan is the world’s number one producer of advanced chips, used to power large language
Google settles privacy lawsuit by committing to erase billions of data records, ensuring users’ browsing privacy is respected. Google agreed to delete the records in order to resolve a lawsuit alleging that it secretly monitored the internet activity of users
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI has open- sourced its ChatGPT rival Grok, releasing its raw computer code, a week after the tech billionaire announced the plan to the public. This will allow developers and researchers to build on the model
The competition between Google and Microsoft is highlighted by Microsoft telling EU antitrust inspectors that Google has a competitive edge in generative artificial intelligence because of its wealth of data and AI-optimized hardware. Google unit Microsoft has informed EU antitrust
One of the biggest risks with the increased use of AI chatbots like ChatGPT is the emergence of new threats to user data. But some companies are starting to build decentralized AI systems that they hope will make personal data
Artificial intelligence and virtual reality (VR) will become the next big thing on the World Wide Web, or Internet, its designer Tim Berners-Lee predicted, marking the 35th anniversary of his invention, which almost failed to see the light of day.
Google accused Meta Platforms of “fragmenting” the metaverse ecosystem after Meta refused to work with Google in developing virtual reality and augmented reality technology. Late last year, Google pitched Meta about partnering on a new software platform that it is
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