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There Is Only One AI Company. Welcome to the Blob

It all began, as many things do, with Elon Musk. In the early 2010s he realized that AI was on a track to...

Meta, Google, and Microsoft Triple Down on AI Spending

While Microsoft didn’t offer a specific forecast for its AI capital expenditures for the next quarter or coming year, the company’s chief financial...

Tech layoffs: From Meta, Amazon to Google — these IT majors have cut AI-related jobs

Mark Zuckerberg spent much of this year poaching employees from rival tech companies including OpenAI, Apple and xAI for his artificial intelligence unit...

Ray-Ban maker shares hits all-time high as investors bet on Meta AI glasses boom

Shares in Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica rose 14% to hit an all-time high on Friday, adding nearly $20 billion in market value as investor...

From OpenAI to Nvdia and xAI, mega AI deals spark buzz — but is it a boom or a bubble? Experts weigh in

The past few months have seen the announcement of multi-billion-dollar deals in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, as companies build the infrastructure necessary...

China trials ‘energy-saving’ underwater data centres

Power-hungry data centres run hot, so one Chinese company is planning to submerge a pod of servers in the sea off Shanghai with...

Amazon is overhauling its devices to take on Apple in the AI era

When Amazon.com Inc. recruited longtime Microsoft Corp.product chief Panos Panay in 2023 to run its devices division, his new colleagues thought the e-commerce...

Microsoft raises top Xbox Game Pass subscription by 50%

Microsoft's Xbox has raised the price of the highest tier of Game Pass by 50% and expanded its offerings under the videogame subscription...

Windows 10 support ends in 2025: What you need to know about extended security updates and the shift to Windows 11

Microsoft has announced that support for Windows 10 will officially end on October 14, 2025. Your PC will continue to run after that...

In Australia, a data centre boom is built on vague water plans

Authorities in Sydney approved construction of data centres without requiring measurable plans to cut water use, raising concerns the sector's rapid growth will...