Tag: Tech
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Former CEO of Alibaba quits cloud business in surprise move during its leadership reshuffle
The former CEO of Alibaba, Daniel Zhang, resigned as head of its cloud computing unit yesterday in a surprise move as the Chinese e-commerce empire wraps ... -
Huawei reports sales, profit up despite US sanctions
Chinese tech giant Huawei on Friday reported its revenue rose 3% over a year earlier in the first half of 2023 and its profit margin widened ... -
China urges Japan not to disrupt chip industry after curbs take effect
China’s government appealed to Japan yesterday not to disrupt the semiconductor industry after curbs on exports of Japanese chip-making technology took effect, adding to technology restrictions ... -
Salesforce CEO shares his predictions for AI and the future of work
Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff has become something of a vanishing breed during the nearly quarter century he has been running the company that pioneered ... -
Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other tech firms agree to AI safeguards set by the White House
President Joe Biden said Friday that new commitments by Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other companies that are leading the development of artificial intelligence technology to ... -
Ant Group fined $985 million by regulators in signal that tech crackdown may end
Chinese regulators are fining Ant Group 7.123 billion yuan ($985 million) for violating regulations in its payments and financial services, an indicator that over two years ... -
Nokia renews patent license agreement with Apple, covering 5G and other technologies
Network infrastructure and 5G technology provider Nokia has signed a new long-term patent license agreement with Apple to replace the current deal between the two companies ... -
Cooperation or competition? Security industry sees the US, not AI, as the bigger competitor
After years of breakneck growth, China’s security and surveillance industry is now focused on shoring up its vulnerabilities to the United States and other outside actors, ... -
Intel to build $33-billion chip plant in Germany after government pledges to cover 1/3 of cost
Intel and the German government signed a deal Monday that will see the U.S. company spend more than 30 billion euros ($32.8 billion) to build a ... -
Elon Musk wants to build a digital town square – but his debut for DeSantis had a tech failure
Elon Musk wants to turn Twitter into a “digital town square,” but his much-publicized Twitter Spaces kickoff event, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announcing his run ... -
EU backs Microsoft buying Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard – but the $69B deal is still at risk
The European Union yesterday approved Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of video game maker Activision Blizzard, deciding the deal won’t stifle competition for popular console titles like ... -
UK blocks Microsoft-Activision gaming deal, biggest in tech
British antitrust regulators yesterday [Macau time] blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of video game maker Activision Blizzard, thwarting the biggest tech deal in history over worries ... -
RoboCop? No, RoboDog: Robotic dog rejoins New York police
New York City officials unveiled three new high-tech policing devices this week, including a robotic dog that critics called creepy when it first joined the police ... -
Italy temporarily blocks ChatGPT over privacy concerns
Italy is temporarily blocking the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT in the wake of a data breach as it investigates a possible violation of stringent European Union ... -
China can’t get US data under plan: TikTok attorney
Under intense scrutiny from Washington that could lead to a potential ban, the top attorney for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance defended the social ... -
Alibaba’s Jack Ma resurfaces in mainland China
Alibaba founder Jack Ma has resurfaced in China after months of overseas travel, visiting a school yesterday in the city where his company is headquartered and ... -
Samsung to invest USD230 billion to build ‘mega’ chip cluster
Samsung Electronics said yesterday it expects to invest 300 trillion won ($230 billion) over the next 20 years as part of an ambitious South Korean national ... -
Microsoft brings Bing chatbot to phones after curbing quirks
Microsoft is ready to take its new Bing chatbot mainstream — less than a week after making major fixes to stop the artificially intelligent search engine ... -
Baidu to implement ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot chatbot from March
Baidu Inc., one of China’s biggest search and artificial intelligence firms, said yesterday it plans to implement its artificial intelligence chatbot Ernie into its search services ... -
Twitter poll closes, users vote in favor of Musk exit as CEO
More than half of 17.5 million users who responded to a poll that asked whether billionaire Elon Musk should step down as head of Twitter voted ... -
Elon Musk sells $3.95 billion worth of Tesla stock
Twitter’s new owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sold nearly $4 billion worth of Tesla shares, according to regulatory filings. Musk, who bought Twitter for ... -
South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix worries about China future
South Korean computer chipmaker SK Hynix said yesterday it might be forced to sell its manufacturing operations in China if a U.S. crackdown on exports of ... -
Musk has a ‘super app’ plan for Twitter. It’s super vague
Elon Musk has a penchant for the letter “X.” He calls his son with the singer Grimes, whose actual name is a collection of letters and ... -
Strike four: Facebook misses election misinfo in Brazil ads
Facebook failed to detect blatant election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil’s 2022 election, a new report from Global Witness has found, continuing a pattern of ...
