6 things from my San Francisco trip reveal AI stock winners
It’s time for some of my reflections on a week in San Francisco talking to dozens of executives and workers in tech. It was a grueling trip, but a necessary …
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Court backs Google’s challenge to the EU’s $1.7 billion antitrust fine
A Google logo displays on a smartphone screen and the European flag on a computer screen. Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images The European Union’s second-highest court on Wednesday …
Amazon makes £8 billion UK investment to build cloud and AI infrastructure
Amazon’s computing unit AWS is in talks with Italy to invest billions of euros in the expansion of its data center business in the country as part of the tech …
Mike Lynch reported missing after superyacht sinks off Sicily
Mike Lynch, former chief executive officer at Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Autonomy unit, speaking at a conference on Thursday, April 25, 2013. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — British tech …
Zoom Is Going After Google and Microsoft With AI-Driven Docs
Starting Monday, Zoom users will have the option to open a document tool from within their video calling app and create sharable files based on their meetings—but they’ll also be …
Apple strong quarter puts it on sure footing ahead of AI iPhone launch
Apple delivered quarterly beats after Thursday’s closing bell ahead of what’s expected to be a robust artificial intelligence iPhone upgrade cycle in the months the come. Revenue in Apple’s fiscal …
We’re upgrading Microsoft after earnings. The stock slid enough lately
Microsoft delivered an overall strong quarter after Tuesday’s market close, but a miss on Azure revenue growth put shares under pressure in extended-hours trading. Revenue increased about 15% year over …
Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing
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For someone just getting into this weird craft, BASIC felt positively thaumaturgic. It was spellcasting: You uttered words that brought iron and silicon to life, and made them do things. …
Cars Are Now Rolling Computers, So How Long Will They Get Updates? Automakers Can’t Say
This is a new issue for the automotive industry. “One of the beautiful things about automotive has been that it tends to move much more slowly than consumer electronics,” says …
Crowdstrike outage and global software’s single-point failure problem
The frequency of large-scale attacks on corporate enterprise IT is increasing. That’s not unusual or unexpected as companies spend heavily on cyber defense in an asymmetric war against hackers who …