Google faces mounting evidence of its search monopoly. A federal judge recently ruled – for the second time in a year – that Google illegally maintains a monopoly in ad tech. Google's response?
The United States set out to win a trade war with China. It failed. Years of tariffs, tech restrictions, and tough rhetoric have backfired, leaving America in a weaker position while China charges ahead with innovation and global influence.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Meta just kicked Apple's AI tools to the curb. All of them. 🥾 No
Amazon needs startup speed to win in AI, CEO Andy Jassy told shareholders Thursday. His annual letter shows how the tech giant plans to stay nimble while spending billions on artificial intelligence.
"If your customer experiences aren't planning to leverage AI, you will not be competitive," Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told shareholders Thursday. "It's moving faster than almost anything technology has ever seen."
Amazon will spend $100 billion in capital this year, mostly on AI projects. The money will fund data centers for Amazon Web Services, which hit $108 billion in revenue last year, up 19%. Their AI services grow at triple-digit rates.
Bureaucracy threatens this growth. When Jassy asked about unnecessary processes, employees sent nearly 1,000 examples. Amazon has cut 375 of them.
"Builders hate bureaucracy," Jassy writes. "It slows them down, frustrates them, and keeps them from doing what they came here to do."
Amazon built its cloud storage service with 13 people and its compute service with 11. They now develop over 1,000 AI applications across the company.
Their new chips cut AI computing costs by 30-40%. Jassy wants these costs to drop further to match other computing services.
The company also plans to expand its pharmacy and One Medical healthcare services.
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Google faces mounting evidence of its search monopoly. A federal judge recently ruled – for the second time in a year – that Google illegally maintains a monopoly in ad tech. Google's response?
Google broke antitrust laws by crushing competition in online advertising, a federal judge ruled Thursday. The verdict marks Google's second monopoly defeat in eight months and could force the tech giant to sell key parts of its $31 billion ad business.
Google lets anti-abortion centers place misleading ads targeting women who need legally-required ultrasounds before getting an abortion, a new investigation reveals. These crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) can't actually provide the required medical services.
OpenAI just launched o3 and o4-mini, models that combine visual intelligence with deeper reasoning. For the first time, these AIs don't just see images – they think with them, manipulating photos to extract insights just as a human would zoom in or rotate a picture to understand it better.
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