Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney on Monday portrayed Google as a ruthless bully that resorts to shady tactics to protect a predatory payment system. His portrayal came in testimony in an antitrust trial focused on Epic Games’ attempt to upend Google’s store for Android phone apps. Sweeney’s more than two-hour stint on the witness stand…
Intuit QuickBooks announced a veritable parade of new products and features, centered mostly around automation, workflow efficiency and integrations. The company unveiled the new products and features at its 10th annual QuickBooks Connect conference. One is the new QuickBooks Ledger solution, a standardized platform that is designed with accountants in mind to assist with basic needs like…
San Francisco — Elon Musk unveiled details Saturday of his new AI tool called “Grok,” which can access X in real time and will be initially available to the social media platform’s top tier of subscribers. Musk, the tycoon behind Tesla and SpaceX, said the link-up with X, formerly known as Twitter, is “a massive…
The British Library is suffering a technology outage after it was hit by a cyber-attack, which is affecting services online and its sites in London and Yorkshire. Access to the website, as well as the catalogue and digital collections, is temporarily unavailable. The collection of items ordered on or after 27 October, new collection item…
Nvidia (NVDA) has needed help from its Big Tech friends to become Wall Street’s artificial intelligence darling. Those friends haven’t left the party yet. In their earnings reports this week, Club holdings Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOGL), Facebook-parent Meta Platforms (META) and Amazon (AMZN) indicated continued investments to advance their AI ambitions — a good sign…
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BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – Vermont is at the forefront when it comes to keeping an eye on artificial intelligence and its use in state government. Legislation from 2022 created an AI Commission and a code of ethics. Now, conversations are happening about how state government will continue to regulate artificial intelligence. Josiah Raiche is the…
Drawing from a comprehensive survey of IT leaders and experts, Info-Tech Research Group’s 2024 Tech Trends report highlights six pivotal AI-centric trends, as well as the promises and intricacies of an AI-integrated future. “Our 2023 report highlighted generative AI as a trend that would impact every industry. Not only was that true, but the impact…
Concerns from regulators about the dominance of Amazon and Microsoft in Britain’s cloud computing market have triggered an investigation into the competitiveness of the key industry FILE – People stand in the lobby for Amazon offices in New York, Feb. 14, 2019. Britain’s cloud computing market faces a competition investigation after regulators raised concerns about…
