AI boosts Microsoft and Alphabet earnings amid trade war Consumer electronics face tariff-strains, impacting Apple and Amazon Samsung and Qualcomm warn of growing demand uncertainties Microsoft’s AI-driven Azure growth boosts investor confidence By Aditya Soni and Deborah Mary Sophia May 1 (Reuters) – The fortunes of Big Tech are diverging in a rapidly changing business…
New Delhi: Artificial Intelligence (AI) powerhouse OpenAI on Monday announced the integration of ChatGPT search engine with the ubiquitous WhatsApp messaging platform, in a direct challenge to Google’s lucrative search advertising model. This ChatGPT-WhatsApp integration in India and globally could redefine how users search for information and discover products online. Alongside the ChatGPT search engine…
New Delhi: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said the new Income Tax Bill, currently under review by a select committee, will be taken up for discussion in the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament. Speaking in the Lok Sabha during a discussion of the Finance Bill, Sitharaman said the select committee has been mandated to…
Alphabet-owned Google is planning to tie up with Taiwan’s chip maker MediaTek to design and produce the next generation of its artificial intelligence (AI) chips Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), the Information reported on Monday. The AI chips are expected to be produced next year. The technology giant chose MediaTek partly because the Taiwanese company has…
Starbucks baristas have a new job requirement. In addition to remembering to make your latte with no foam, they must also write a little missive on your cup, as per a directive straight from CEO Brian Niccol, who says handwritten notes foster “moments of connection”—part of his strategy to get more customers into stores to…
Microsoft Corp. has announced a significant breakthrough in quantum computing with its new Majorana 1 chip. Stocks of other quantum computing firms, which were already outperforming big tech, have seen a ripple effect. If Microsoft’s claims are true, the implications are broader: It believes this will lead to commercially usable and viable quantum computers “within…
Keeping up the momentum of the 2023 Bletchley Park and 2024 Seoul AI Safety talks, global leaders have gathered at this year’s AI Action Summit in Paris to forge a consensus on the regulation and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) for the common good. The agenda of this huddle focuses on public-service AI, the future…
US congressional offices have been cautioned against using the Chinese artificial intelligence application DeepSeek, according to a report by Axios on Thursday. The warning comes amid growing concerns over data security and foreign influence in AI technology. A notice issued by the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of the US House of Representatives has reportedly advised…
Mr Pichai is not alone. New Street Research, a firm of analysts, estimates that Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft will together splurge $104bn on building AI data centres this year. Add in spending by smaller tech firms and other industries and the total AI data-centre binge between 2023 and 2027 could reach $1.4trn. The scale…
