OpenAI reversed ChatGPT's latest update Tuesday after users complained about the AI's strange behavior. The bot had started agreeing with everything - even dangerous ideas.
Jeff Bezos just showed everyone how to dance with Donald Trump. Their Tuesday tango started with threats and ended with compliments - all before dinner time.
Meta launched an AI app that uses your Facebook and Instagram history to personalize responses from day one. Built on their Llama 4 model, the app transforms years of social media data into an AI that claims to understand your preferences, habits, and interests.
Q1 Tech Earnings: When Uncertainty Becomes the Only Certainty
Silicon Valley braces for a turbulent earnings season. As major tech companies prepare to report Q1 2025 results, Trump's unpredictable trade policies have turned forecasts into guesswork.
The market tells the story. The Nasdaq has fallen 16% this year, with April showing a brutal 6% decline. Five trading days this month saw swings above 2% as investors scrambled to interpret Trump's latest trade declarations.
Tesla opens the season facing multiple headwinds. The company's stock has dropped 40% this year amid parts shortages and supply chain chaos. CEO Elon Musk hasn't hidden his frustration, calling Trump's trade advisor Peter Navarro "dumber than a sack of bricks."
Alphabet follows with its own concerns. The company's $75 billion investment plan for data centers and AI infrastructure now sits in limbo. The advertising market looks shaky too, with major spender Temu pulling back amid trade tensions.
Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple report next week. Each company faces distinct challenges. Meta watches Chinese advertisers retreat. Microsoft's cloud customers rethink spending. Amazon's sellers weigh price increases. Apple, with its deep ties to Chinese manufacturing, hopes its supply chain holds.
The problems go beyond tariffs. Interest rates remain volatile, regulators threaten antitrust action, and massive AI investments show no clear returns. Tech's resilience faces its toughest test since 2020.
Trump's trade policy works like a game of economic roulette. His move to cut most tariffs to 10% (while raising China's to 145%) brought brief relief. But his wavering on technology exemptions erased any certainty.
For investors, these companies' combined $10 trillion market value means their performance affects everything from retirement accounts to the broader economy. The next few weeks will show if tech can maintain growth while navigating unprecedented political uncertainty.
Why this matters:
These earnings reports will reveal if Silicon Valley's famous adaptability can overcome presidential trade policy by tweet.
The outcome will determine whether the tech sector remains a market leader or stumbles under the weight of global trade chaos.
OpenAI reversed ChatGPT's latest update Tuesday after users complained about the AI's strange behavior. The bot had started agreeing with everything - even dangerous ideas.
Meta launched an AI app that uses your Facebook and Instagram history to personalize responses from day one. Built on their Llama 4 model, the app transforms years of social media data into an AI that claims to understand your preferences, habits, and interests.
Alibaba released eight new AI language models Monday that match or beat the performance of top competitors like Google and OpenAI. The new Qwen3 family ranges from compact 0.6-billion-parameter models to a massive 235-billion-parameter version.
Anthropic's analysis of 500,000 coding conversations reveals startups use AI coding tools 20% more than enterprise companies, pointing to a growing tech divide.
