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Gaming giants faced massive stock drops after Google’s AI, Project Genie, was unveiled. While impressive, the tool generates basic, non-playable virtual worlds, not actual games. Investors’ fears of AI disrupting game creation are seen as an overreaction, overlooking the complex realities of game development and technical limitations. Major video game companies watched billions evaporate from…
Tech giants like Microsoft, Google and Amazon, among other have lately been in an AI war in the Silicon Valley over researchers and data scientists. But as the artificial intelligence (AI) boom matures, a new “talent war” has emerged: the battle for hiring energy experts. Citing data from Workforce.ai, CNBC has reported that energy-related hiring…
Google recently unveiled Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a new open standard for agentic commerce that the search giant claims works across the entire shopping journey — from discovery and buying to post-purchase support. UCP establishes a common language for agents and systems to operate together across consumer surfaces, businesses, and payment providers to enable commerce….
Apple is partnering with Google, leveraging its Gemini AI models to significantly upgrade Siri and future Apple Intelligence features. This move acknowledges Apple’s need for advanced AI, a departure from its internal development struggles. The collaboration aims to deliver a more capable assistant, with the revamped Siri expected to launch soon, marking a significant win…
Elon Musk, Satya Nadella (File photos) As the AI race hot up in 2025, the corporate leadership in Google, Microsoft, Meta and other tech companies changed the way companies work. Driven by the high stakes of the AI race, the world’s most powerful tech leaders shifted into what Silicon Valley calls “Founder Mode”. From personally…
AI-generated image for representation purpose Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer limited to tech labs. OpenAI launched ChaGPT in 2022. Since then AI chatbots have become mainstream with big tech companies not only developing their own AI tools but also fostering partnerships to make them accessible to more users. As access expands and costs come…
Google reportedly paid $10.5 billion as fine in Europe. According to an X (formerly Twitter) post shared by The Kobeissi Letter, the US tech giant has added a literal line item in their quarterly reports called “European Commission fines.” According to it, Google has paid $10.5 billion in EU fines as of September 30th. “The…
Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, has identified the ‘biggest weakness’ in Google’s AI armour, arguing that the search giant infusing AI into already built products rather than creating a product around artificial intelligence may hinder its ability to lead in the age of AI. While acknowledging that Google possesses “probably the greatest business model…
A temporary power outage in San Francisco left hundreds of Google’s self-driving vehicles – Waymo stranded on roads. Many users shared videos and photos of the cars stalled in traffic in different parts of the city. Amid the disruption, Elon Musk posted on X (formerly Twitter), writing “Tesla Robotaxis were unaffected by the SF power…
A massive power outage affected nearly 30% of San Francisco as the city plunged into darkness for hours, paralysing the city’s infrastructure and leaving hundreds of Google-owned Waymo self-driving vehicles stranded in the middle of busy roads. People on social media posted videos and photos of Waymo vehicles in the middle of the road, affecting…
