DETROIT — General Motors‘ plans to diversify its business through trendy industries such as ridesharing and other “mobility” ventures or startups have largely fallen flat since the automaker started investing in such growth areas in 2016. Cruise, its majority-owned autonomous vehicle subsidiary, is increasingly looking like it might be next. The unit has quickly gone … Read more
George Kurtz, co-founder and chief executive officer of Crowdstrike Holdings Inc., during a Bloomberg Technology television interview at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has had a banner year. The cybersecurity firm has seen its stock … Read more
The logo of Google Play is seen on a screen. Alexander Pohl | NurPhoto | Getty Images A federal jury decided on Monday that Google’s app store has benefited from anticompetitive behavior, but it could take a long time before the company faces any potential changes to the Google Play store, and those changes are … Read more
The logo of Japanese tech giant Rakuten logo seen at the Mobile World Congress 2019. Paco Freire| SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images Japan’s Rakuten plans to launch its own proprietary artificial intelligence language model, its CEO told CNBC in an interview that aired Monday. It comes as the fintech-to-e-commerce giant looks to join … Read more
Andy Boxall / Digital Trends If you’re looking for a great Android phone, then going for the Google Pixel is an excellent idea since Google is the one who made Android in the first place. And, if you want the latest in the Pixel lineup, then you’re going to want to grab the Google Pixel … Read more
If you haven’t upgraded your phone in a few years, then this 3-day sale from Best Buy is the perfect opportunity to do so. You can take advantage of dozens of unlocked phone deals on everything from budget-friendly phones that cost less than a couple of hundred dollars to high-end folding phones. Whatever it is, … Read more
Google is facing scrutiny over its demonstration video for its newly launched artificial intelligence model, Gemini. On Wednesday, just weeks before the year’s end, Google launched what it considers its largest and most capable AI model Gemini and presented a demonstrative video to media outlets and the public. The six-minute video includes spoken conversations between … Read more
A team at Google has proposed using artificial intelligence technology to create a “bird’s-eye” view of users’ lives using mobile phone data such as photographs and searches. Dubbed “Project Ellmann,” after biographer and literary critic Richard David Ellmann, the idea would be to use LLMs like Gemini to ingest search results, spot patterns in a … Read more
Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images The U.K.’s competition watchdog has opened an initial review into Microsoft’s mammoth investment into ChatGPT creator OpenAI, making it the first major regulator to flag potential competition concerns over the tech giant’s relationship with one of the most important artificial intelligence companies today. The Competition and Markets Authority … Read more
Microsoft CEO Brad Smith participates in a meeting at The Westin Palace Hotel, on 20 May, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. Cezaro De Luca | Europa Press | Getty Images Microsoft President Brad Smith met with China’s Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao on Wednesday to discuss topics ranging from artificial intelligence to trade relations between Washington … Read more
