Microsoft will unveil new Windows and cloud AI features in May

Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder and chief executive officer of Inflection AI UK Ltd., speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft will reveal brand-new artificial intelligence tools for use on PCs and in the cloud at its annual Build conference, according to a … Read more

Google partners with Bayer on new AI product for radiologists

Google Cloud and the German health-care company Bayer on Tuesday announced they are building an artificial intelligence-powered platform that aims to help radiologists diagnose patients and work through cases more quickly.  The platform’s generative AI flags anomalies within images for radiologists to look at, and it can also pull up relevant information from that patient’s … Read more

Microsoft picks Pavan Davuluri to lead Windows and Surface

Microsoft said Monday it has selected company veteran Pavan Davuluri to lead its Windows operating system and Surface devices teams. Davuluri, who joined Microsoft in 2001 and has been corporate vice president for almost three years, is taking on additional responsibilities after Panos Panay decamped to Amazon last fall. Windows remains critical to Microsoft. Its … Read more

Neuralink shows video of patient chess player involving brain implant

Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink streamed a live video on Wednesday that showed a patient using the company’s brain implant to move a mouse and play chess on a computer. Noland Arbaugh, 29, is the first human patient to ever get implanted with Neuralink’s device. The company is developing a brain-computer interface, or a BCI, that … Read more

Micron stock pops 12% on earnings beat driven by AI boom

The Micron Technology headquarters in Boise, Idaho, on March 28, 2021. Jeremy Erickson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Micron popped more than 12% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company announced second-quarter fiscal 2024 results that beat analysts and offered rosy guidance. The company, which makes memory and storage for computers, said … Read more

Ambient clinical documentation steals the show

Attendees at HIMSS in Orlando, Florida 2024. Courtesy of HIMSS The hottest new technology for doctors promises to bring back an age-old health-care practice: face-to-face conversations with patients. As more than 30,000 health and tech professionals gathered among the palm trees at the HIMSS conference in Orlando, Florida, this week, ambient clinical documentation was the … Read more

HashiCorp shares jump on report that company is considering a sale

HashiCorp at the Nasdaq market site, December 9, 2021. Source: Nasdaq HashiCorp shares jumped 12% in extended trading on Friday after Bloomberg reported the software developer was considering a sale. The company has engaged an outside firm to explore interest from potential buyers, Bloomberg said, citing unnamed sources. A company representative didn’t immediately respond to … Read more

Adobe (ADBE) Q1 earnings report 2024

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen speaks during an interview with CNBC on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 20, 2024. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Adobe shares tumbled as much as 11% in extended trading Thursday after the design software maker issued strong fiscal first-quarter results but came up slightly short on quarterly … Read more

Parker Harris prepared Salesforce for AI. Now he’s focused on Slack

Parker Harris, a co-founder of Salesforce, speaks during a keynote at the company’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Sept. 12, 2023. Marlena Sloss | Bloomberg | Getty Images Each year, Salesforce updates its V2MOM, a planning document laying out vision, values, methods, obstacles and measures. CEO Marc Benioff has said it’s “been used to … Read more

UnitedHealth working to restore Change Healthcare systems by mid-March, company says

In this photo illustration the UnitedHealth Group logo displayed on a smartphone screen.  Sheldon Cooper | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images UnitedHealth Group on Thursday said it expects to restore Change Healthcare’s systems by mid-March, offering a potential resolution to the ransomware attack that has disrupted crucial operations across the U.S. health-care system. … Read more