Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears. On Tuesday, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai warned of “irrationality” in the AI market, telling the BBC in an interview, “I think no company is going to be immune, including us.” His comments arrive as scrutiny…
Google’s flagship AI model is getting its second major upgrade this year. Google has kicked its Gemini rollout into high gear over the past year, releasing the much-improved Gemini 2.5 family and cramming various flavors of the model into Search, Gmail, and just about everything else the company makes.…
A Reddit user posted video of his safety driver sleeping at the wheel in San Fransisco. As Tesla’s profits shrink and its model lineup continues to age, the company remains focused on establishing new lines of business. Tesla CEO Elon Musk says there’s not much his Optimus robots won’t…
He stepped down at Amazon in 2021 and doesn’t hold a CEO title at Blue Origin. Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s richest and most famous tech CEOs, but he hasn’t actually been a CEO of anything since 2021. That’s now changing as he takes on the role…
Fleets of laptops run from US residences gave appearance workers were in the US. Five men have pleaded guilty to running laptop farms and providing other assistance to North Koreans to obtain remote IT work at US companies in violation of US law, federal prosecutors said. The pleas come…
Government can’t use funding threats to override the First Amendment. On Friday, a US District Court issued a preliminary injunction blocking the United States government from halting federal funding at UCLA or any other school in the University of California system. The ruling came in response to a suit…
Mac Pro was last updated in mid-2023, one of the last Macs to switch from Intel. Apple’s Power Mac and Mac Pro towers used to be the company’s primary workstations, but it has been years since they were updated with the same regularity as the MacBook Air or MacBook…
“Concord Delta” project locks down Discord after YouTube video takedowns. A group of dedicated coders has managed to partially revive online gameplay for the PC version of Concord, the team-based shooter that Sony famously shut down just two weeks after its launch last summer. Now, though, the team behind…
Company falls more than rivals over its borrowing and reliance on OpenAI contracts. Oracle has been hit harder than Big Tech rivals in the recent sell-off of tech stocks and bonds, as its vast borrowing to fund a pivot to artificial intelligence unnerved Wall Street. The US software group…
Paradox subsidiary Iceflake Studios will take over work on the storied city simulation. For well over a decade now, the Cities franchise has done its best to pick up the urban simulation ball that EA’s SimCity famously dropped. Going forward, though, that ball will be handed off from longtime…
