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Apple is spending more on AI, but remains far behind its Silicon Valley peers
Apple CEO Tim Cook opens WWDC 2024 in Cupertino, California, on June 10, 2024. Source: Apple The topic of greatest interest to analysts on Apple’s quarterly earnings call on Thursday was a product that’s not even available to the general public yet. Apple Intelligence, the company’s forthcoming artificial intelligence system, could spur a fresh cycle […]
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Meta shares pop 6% on earnings beat, rosy revenue forecast
Jaques Silva | Lightrocket | Getty Images Meta shares jumped 6% on Thursday after the company reported second-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street’s expectations and offered a rosy revenue forecast. Revenue in the period increased 22% to $39.07 billion from $32 billion a year earlier, Meta said late Wednesday. Analysts were expecting revenue of $38.31 […]
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Meta’s advertising growth is proof that hefty AI spending is already paying off
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during an interview on “The Circuit with Emily Chang” at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, US, on Thursday, July 18, 2024. Jason Henry | Bloomberg | Getty Images For investors who are skeptical of Meta’s massive spending on artificial intelligence and whether it will pay […]
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Meta’s Reality Labs posts $4.5 billion loss in second quarter
A visitor wears a virtual reality headset Meta Quest as he takes part in an immersive experience stand during the Viva Technology show at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on May 24, 2024 in Paris, France. Chesnot | Getty Images Meta’s ambitious plans to develop the metaverse is still costing the company billions of […]
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Meta set to report second-quarter earnings after the bell
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Meta is slated to report second-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the close of regular trading. Here’s what analysts polled by LSEG are expecting: Earnings per […]
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Apple says its AI models were trained on Google’s custom chips
Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook Source: Reuters; Apple Apple said on Monday that the artificial intelligence models underpinning Apple Intelligence, its AI system, were pretrained on processors designed by Google, a sign that Big Tech companies are looking for alternatives to Nvidia when it comes to the training of cutting-edge AI. Apple’s choice of Google’s […]
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Tech’s splurge on AI chips has companies in ‘arms race’ that’s forcing more spending
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been assembling a large stockpile of Nvidia chips, spending billions of dollars so his company can develop and train advanced […]
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Larry Ellison is $18 billion richer after Oracle shares rally the most since 2021
Larry Ellison, chairman and co-founder of Oracle Corp., speaks during the Oracle OpenWorld 2017 conference in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2017. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison is $18 billion richer after the software maker he founded in 1977 forecast double-digit revenue growth for the fiscal year, putting […]
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Meta AI chief LeCun slams Elon Musk over ‘blatantly false’ predictions, spreading conspiracy theories
Meta‘s chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun has spent much of the past week sparring with Elon Musk over the Tesla CEO’s treatment of scientists and news organizations, and for spreading false conspiracies on social media. “I like his cars (I own a 2015 S, and 2023 S), his rockets, his solar energy systems, and […]
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Argentina’s ‘anarcho capitalist’ Milei meets with Sam Altman, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai in a bid to spur investment
Argentina’s President Javier Milei waves during the commemoration of the 214th anniversary of the May Revolution that led to the independence from Spain, at Plaza San Martin in Cordoba, Argentina, on May 25, 2024. Diego Lima | Afp | Getty Images Argentina President Javier Milei met with leaders of some of the world’s largest tech […]
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