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Why Measuring the ROI of Transformative Technology Like GenAI Is So Hard

pymnts.com Google’s market cap topped $2 trillion last week after quarterly earnings convinced investors that demand for its GenAI platform was not only strong but being monetized in…

Bill Gates still plays a crucial role at Microsoft and has contributed to its success with AI

windowscentral.com What you need to know • A new report indicates that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is still intimately involved in the company's affairs years after stepping down from the…

An $850 million retail giant is giving candidates their questions before a job interview

fortune.com Employers are constantly finding new hoops for candidates to jump through, from endless rounds of interviews to 90-minute tests and presentations. But one major employer is…

Apple's poached dozens of Googlers with AI talent in recent years, report says

businessinsider.com Apple has poached dozens of Googlers since 2018. SOPA Images Apple has lured away 36 Googlers with AI expertise since 2018, the Financial Times reported. It's part of a…

Amazon.com may be feeling pressure to join the dividend club

aol.com E-commerce titan Amazon.com may be under increasing pressure to offer investors a dividend, as it now finds itself one of the few massive U.S. technology and growth…

How EU Law Has Made The Internet Less Free For Everyone Else

zerohedge.com How EU Law Has Made The Internet Less Free For Everyone Else Authored by Mustafa Ekin Turan via The Mises Institute, If you have been using the internet for longer than a…

Vitrimer-based plastics promise more recyclable PCBs

theregister.com A recent study proposes that vitrimer could potentially be used for making printed circuit boards (PCBs) that are much more repairable and recyclable than the ones we use…

Samsung joins Nvidia in AI semiconductor boom as memory chip sales help profits quadruple last year’s result

fortune.com Samsung Electronics Co. topped analyst earnings estimates after its semiconductor division returned to profitability, as companies like Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc. led…

Apple poaches Google AI staff, creates ‘secretive’ laboratory: Report

cointelegraph.com Apple has reportedly been luring experts from Google in its efforts to catch up with Big Tech companies in the race to develop and deploy high-level AI models.

Satya Nadella says Microsoft will pump $1.7bn into Indonesia for AI and cloud projects as Big Tech floods into Southeast Asia

fortune.com Microsoft Corp. will invest $1.7 billion to build out cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Indonesia, betting on Southeast Asia’s biggest economy to…

Devastated by his image being posted to a porn site, this founder hit on an AI startup idea

techcrunch.com Devastated by his image being posted to a porn site, this founder hit on an AI startup idea Realising that a former partner had, unbeknownst to him, put previously private,…

Unload & Poach

invstr-crunch.zencast.website On today’s Invstr Crunch we will talk about Goldman unloading their GM credit-card partnership and Apple poaching Google staff as it competes in AI.

Campus protesters are calling for divestment. Here’s what that means

aol.com College campuses across the country have been thrown into disarray by pro-Palestinian demonstrations this month. While the demands among protesters vary at each university,…

Cramer's bullish on Alphabet after earnings, would buy on a pullback

cnbc.com CNBC's Jim Cramer told investors he's pleased with Google parent Alphabet 's most recent quarter, lauding the company's proof of profitability. Cramer added that it…

Meet the Newest Dividend Stock in the Nasdaq 100. It Could Be a $4 Trillion Company by 2030, With Help From Artificial Intelligence

finance.yahoo.com Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) had more than $110 billion in cash and cash equivalents on its balance sheet at the end of 2023. The company is investing heavily in…

Billionaires Are Selling Nvidia and Buying This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock Instead

finance.yahoo.com Nvidia was the best-performing stock in the S&P 500 last year. Its share price surged 239% as artificial intelligence (AI) whipped Wall Street into a frenzy. However,…

Amazon Earnings Preview: A focus on AI-powered business growth

euronews.com Amazon is set to unveil its first-quarter earnings after the US market closes on 30 April. The e-commerce behemoth is anticipated to showcase its advancements in the…

Meta's AI is everywhere now

axios.com Meta is pushing generative AI into every nook and cranny of its giant platforms — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — frustrating some longtime users and threatening to…

Is the AI bubble deflating?

theweek.com Sometimes booms go bust. That may be happening with artificial intelligence. "There's growing evidence that the hype machine is slowing down," said . Major tech companies…

Tech journalism is often characterized by scandals, sensationalism, and shoddy research, and publishers are reluctant to invest in it without a clear ROI

asteriskmag.com “Researchers consider math to be a frontier of generative AI development,” the Reuters journalists wrote. Large language models are “good at writing and language…

Amazon Stock: What Wall Street Is Looking For From Tech Giant's Q1

investors.com is on deck in the Big Tech earnings lineup, following a week in which Meta (META) flopped while Alphabet (GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT) soared. Heading into the report, Amazon…

As VC firms invest more in B2B startups, Intuition is a new VC fund focusing on consumer tech

techcrunch.com As VC firms invest more in B2B startups, Intuition is a new VC fund focusing on consumer tech In 2024, it’s hard to wake up without reading about yet another large funding…

Microsoft Pledges $1.7B Investment In Emerging Asian Powerhouse As Tech Giants Bet Big On AI

benzinga.com Microsoft Corporation MSFT has committed to a $1.7 billion investment in Indonesia’s cloud services and artificial intelligence (AI) over the next four years. What Happened:…

Samourai Case: One Founder Released as US Pursues Extradition of the Other

beincrypto.com In the latest development of Samourai Wallet’s case against the US regulator, Keonne Rodriguez, the founder, was released on a $1 million bond. This news unfolded in the US…

Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says

arstechnica.com Starting in March with the release of iOS 17.4, iPhones in the European Union have been subject to the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA), a batch of regulations that (among…

Marketing Briefing: Marketers appreciate the ‘legroom’ for tests with Google’s latest cookie delay

digiday.com This Marketing Briefing covers the latest in marketing for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Tuesday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → Google’s…

NewFronts Briefing: Google, Vizio and news publishers pitch marketers with new ad offerings and range of content categories

digiday.com The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s annual four-day NewFronts kicked off yesterday in New York City, with presentations from Google and Vizio pitching marketers on their…

Roku is set to reveal a tie-up with The Trade Desk as the streaming platform further opens up programmatic access

digiday.com If media industry observers need any clarification that digital is firmly part of its mainstream, they need only look at how the previously distinct lines between the…

Tech Latest: Google faces antitrust crackdown in Japan

asia.nikkei.com Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo is talking to Tokyo correspondent Ryohtaroh Satoh…

Does The CIA Run America?

zerohedge.com Does The CIA Run America? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, We’ve all surely had dark thoughts that the CIA is really running the United States, including many…

Upbeat Q1 Results Allay Macroeconomic Fears as Bulls Brace For a Rally

coingape.com According to a report by UBS, market sentiment is leaning toward an upward swing in contrast to the grim outlook touted by several pundits amid macroeconomic uncertainties.…

Samsung reports chip profits after a year of losses, as AI boom drives fourfold surge in overall income

scmp.com Samsung reports chip profits after a year of losses, as AI boom drives fourfold surge in overall income topped analyst earnings estimates after its semiconductor division…

Shiba Inu Team Estimates When SHIB Could Hit $0.01

watcher.guru With a price correction in the backdrop, Shiba Inu [SHIB] seems to be garnering focus yet again as investors await its trajectory. SHIB is currently trading at $0.0000234…

Why, though? Google tried to take on Second Life

thehustle.co In 2021, Facebook became Meta, driven by Mark Zuckerberg’s infatuation with the metaverse — a concept that we’ve heard increasingly about as AI has come to dominate today’s…

Google Announces New Video Ad Targeting Options

socialmediatoday.com Google’s announced a range of new ad updates as part of its 2024 NewFronts presentation, including expanded placement options, improved data tracking tools, and AI-based…

UnitedHealth Group CEO Said Hackers Struck Via Citrix Portal

pymnts.com UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty will testify Wednesday (May 1) that hackers broke into its Change Healthcare unit’s systems through Citrix portal. “On February 12,…

Google Gemini: Everything you need to know about the new generative AI platform

techcrunch.com Google Gemini: Everything you need to know about the new generative AI platform Google’s trying to make waves with Gemini, its flagship suite of generative AI models, apps…

OpenAI Hit With Privacy Complaint Over ChatGPT Hallucinations

tech.co OpenAI’s massively popular AI bot, ChatGPT, has faced plenty of legal concerns. Now, a new privacy complaint is resurfacing a big one: ChatGPT tends to make up information…

YouTube close to making controversial change to how ads appear in videos

thestreet.com the company that owns YouTube, has just warned of an upcoming change on the video sharing platform that users may not like. The company just revealed that a recent pilot…

Google blocked 2.3M apps in Play Store over security fears

theregister.com Google says it stopped 2.28 million Android apps from being published in its official Play Store last year because they violated security rules. The stat comes from the…

Microsoft ‘Doubles Down’ on Cybersecurity to Safeguard Connected Economy

pymnts.com The cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group, resulting in a $872 million loss to the health insurer, is just one example of the evolving cyberthreat landscape in today’s connected…

Kaiser Permanente says data breach may affect 13.4M customers

foxbusiness.com Kaiser Permanente said it is notifying members after a recent data breach potentially affected millions of accounts. The health care conglomerate recently disclosed a large…

Amazon earnings preview: AI initiatives expected to take focus

finance.yahoo.com Amazon is scheduled to post quarterly earnings after the bell on Tuesday, continuing a wave of Big Tech results that have so far wowed Wall Street but also flashed a warning…

Publishers Give OpenAI Their Content for Top Spot in ChatGPT’s Answers

gizmodo.com The Financial Times announced a deal with OpenAI on Monday to license its world-class journalism for training and informing ChatGPT’s models. It joins Axel Springer and the…

AI Jackpot: 7 Machine Learning Stocks to Double Down On

investorplace.com Bold investors should consider doubling down on these machine learning stocks to buy as AI investments show promise again Machine learning is closely related to artificial…

SPACE-THEMED CHALLENGE PROPELS 37th ANNUAL TECH CHALLENGE TO NEW HEIGHTS

benzinga.com More than 2,000 Students from 144 Schools Participated in The Tech's Premier Engineering Design Program SAN JOSE, Calif., April 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tech, the…

This World’s Fair exhibit aims to tell a more complete picture of what happened there

pbs.org ST. LOUIS — Generations of Ria Unson’s family have come to the U.S. from the Philippines for an education. She made her own move in 1985 to attend high school in Madison,…

Google rejected 2.28M “policy-violating” Android apps and blocked ~333K dev accounts from Google Play in 2023, up from 1.5M apps and 173K accounts in 2022

bleepingcomputer.com Google blocked 2.28 million Android apps from being published on Google Play after finding various policy violations that could threaten user's security. Additionally, the…

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