The US Congress has taken a new step toward reining in the market dominance of Big Tech companies. Bipartisan legislation advanced by a Senate panel would bar the dominant online …
Google says it terminated 28 employees associated with protests of the company’s $1.2 billion cloud computing contracts with the Israeli government on Wednesday. The firings follow the arrests of nine …
Builder of superb portable power stations, EcoFlow is launching a brand-new battery solution in South Africa in the build-up to winter. Known as the River 2 Pro, it is now …
Amazon.com says it is investing an additional US$2.75 billion in Anthropic, completing a deal it made last year to back the artificial intelligence (AI) start-up and expand a partnership between …
Apple, Alphabet’s Google and Meta Platforms will be investigated for potential breaches of the EU’s new Digital Markets Act, European antitrust regulators said on Monday, potentially leading to hefty fines …
Microsoft has agreed to pay Inflection AI US$650 million, largely to license its artificial intelligence software, alongside its move earlier this week to hire much of the start-up’s staff, according …
Big Tech platforms Alphabet’s Google and Facebook were hit with a series of antitrust lawsuits by the US federal government and states on charges they are operating monopolies and abusing …
Cloud and data centres, the chip industry’s strongest sector, may be its next problem: Signs are showing growth could slow in what has been a pillar during the COVID era …
The US Federal Trade Commission will hold its next open meeting on September 15 to hear staff findings on deals that Big Tech firms like Facebook and Apple make which are sometimes …
Some of the controversies are easier to manage. The machine learning driven by generative AI has already shown its value in speedy and reliable early indication of diseases, for example. …