Internet
Meta hires Microsoft exec, former Trump deputy as chief legal officer
Meta said Tuesday that it hired former Microsoft legal executive Curtis Joseph Mahoney to become its chief legal officer. Mahoney will replace Meta’s previous head lawyer Jennifer Newstead, who announced in December that she would be leaving Meta to become Apple’s general counsel in March. He joins Meta at a time when the company is […]
Read More
AMD’s Lisa Su says AI isn’t replacing people, but is changing who gets hired
Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su said Tuesday that artificial intelligence has not slowed the pace of hiring at her company, but the job candidates who have truly embraced the technology have become a priority. “I would say that we’re actually not hiring fewer people,” Su told CNBC’s Jon Fortt on Tuesday from the CES […]
Read More
Memory chip giants spark global semiconductor rally as shortages stoke price hikes
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. Michael Nagle| Bloomberg | Getty Images Semiconductor stocks rallied to start the year, led by the world’s biggest memory chip firms that are getting a boost from continued artificial intelligence-related […]
Read More
Amazon lets some users chat with Alexa+ on the web in bid to take on ChatGPT
Alexa+ signage during an unveiling event in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon on Monday launched an Alexa+ website that lets some users chat with its assistant via their browser, putting it in more direct competition with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The Alexa.com website is only available […]
Read More
Fed’s Kashkari says AI is causing a hiring slowdown in big companies
Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said Monday that artificial intelligence is causing big companies to slow hiring, and that many businesses are seeing “real productivity gains” because of the technology. Kashkari said companies have told him that AI is affecting their hiring plans, and he expects to see continued low hiring and low firing in […]
Read More
Elon Musk’s Starlink offers free internet access in Venezuela following U.S. airstrikes and Maduro’s arrest
SpaceX headquarters is shown in Hawthorne, California, U.S. June 5, 2025. Daniel Cole | Reuters Elon Musk’s Starlink is offering free broadband internet service to users in Venezuela through Feb. 3, following U.S. airstrikes and the capture of ousted leader Nicolas Maduro. The satellite internet provider said in a release on Sunday that service credits […]
Read More
Elon Musk envisions humanoid robots everywhere. China may be the first to make it a reality
An engineer debugs robots at the factory of AgiBot, a leading robotics company specializing in embodied intelligence, on December 8, 2025 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Tang Yanjun/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images) Tang Yanjun | China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images Billionaire Elon Musk has put humanoid robots in the […]
Read More
Payment giants are preparing for a world where AI agents book flights and shop for you
Major payment and tech companies are racing to build the infrastructure for what they see as the next evolution of global commerce: artificial intelligence agents that can perform searches, compare prices, and make purchases on behalf of consumers. The trend is referred to as “agentic commerce,” and reflects consumers’ growing reliance on chatbots for everyday […]
Read More
Amazon faces ‘leader’s dilemma’ — fight AI shopping bots or join them
Thos Robinson | Getty Images Amazon CEO Andy Jassy could see how dramatically artificial intelligence was altering e-commerce. In June, he told employees that AI agents will start to infiltrate aspects of everyday life, “from shopping to travel to daily chores and tasks.” Four months later, Jassy said on an earnings call that Amazon expects to partner with third-party agents, and has […]
Read More
Waymo will update driverless fleet after San Francisco blackout to improve navigation during outages
A Waymo car is halted on the road amid a power outage in San Francisco, California, U.S., December 20, 2025, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video.d Reuters Three days after a blackout in San Francisco caused Waymo to pause its driverless car service, the Alphabet-owned company said it’s updating its fleet so […]
Read More