Business & Finance

A year ago, Google faced the prospect of being dismantled. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) and a new court judgment has helped it avoid this fate. Part of the reason is that AI poses a grave threat to Google's advertising revenues.... Read more

Competition is seen as a panacea in electricity markets: if only we had more, prices would be lower, and investment and supply security would be higher.... Read more

Anthropic will pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a US class action lawsuit over allegedly using pirated books to train its artificial intelligence models, according to court documents filed Friday.... Read more

In a new paper, two University of Kansas scholars propose a novel theory of communication analysis that takes into better account how people interact with ubiquitous technology in the 21st-century workplace.... Read more

The publisher of "Roblox" has promised to set up age verification mechanisms, after allegations the video game massively popular with children and teens worldwide has fallen short on safety.... Read more

Tesla unveiled on Friday a proposed compensation package for Elon Musk that could top $1 trillion if the controversial CEO delivers on his vision for stratospheric growth from new technologies.... Read more

The EU on Friday slapped Google with a massive 2.95 billion euro ($3.47 billion) antitrust fine for favoring its own advertising services, despite President Donald Trump's warnings not to target US big tech.... Read more

When Netflix and other streaming giants found themselves in need of more cash, they cracked down on viewers who shared passwords.... Read more

Anthropic is barring Chinese-run companies and organizations from using its artificial intelligence services, the US tech giant said, as it toughened restrictions on "authoritarian regions."... Read more

Making AI quicker, smarter and better is proving to be a very expensive business. Companies like OpenAI are investing billions of dollars in hardware, and the likes of Meta are offering top (human) talent huge salaries for their expertise.... Read more

Cloud computing giant Oracle is laying off 101 employees in Seattle, less than a month after reducing its local workforce.... Read more

Next time a Starbucks barista tells you that your favorite latte flavor is out of stock, blame artificial intelligence.... Read more

They deliver packages, inspect power lines, patrol remote areas, find missing people and increasingly are deployed on the battlefield.... Read more

Since the dawn of the new millennium, there have been at most several thousand startup tech companies across the U.S. that have achieved unicorn status—crossing the $1 billion valuation.... Read more

A US federal jury on Wednesday ordered Google to pay about $425 million for gathering information from smartphone app use even when people opted for privacy settings, the company confirmed.... Read more