Big tech articles

Goldman Sachs says AI's impact on the US economy was "basically zero" last year

Xbox co-founder warns Microsoft is "sunsetting" the brand, compares new leadership role to "palliative care"

Apple's bad week: FTC pressure, delayed Siri AI, and a stock sell-off

The new corporate alibi: AI is the go-to excuse for mass layoffs

Apple's iPhone business just set an all-time record with $85 billion in sales

Nine out of ten DuckDuckGo users don't want AI anywhere near their search

After 70 years of false starts, fusion energy is finally gaining momentum

Big Tech is finally on trial for how it built its algorithms

Why it matters: When jurors in Los Angeles walk into a courtroom this week, they'll confront a question technology companies have long sidestepped: can a line of code, an algorithmic feed, or a design pattern cause psychological harm? The case, K.G.M. v. Meta et al., marks the first personal-injury trial to test whether social media platforms themselves – not just the people who use them – bear responsibility for the mental-health fallout of the digital age.

Another report shows most companies aren't making more money from AI

Facepalm: It's only been a few days since a survey showed more than half of CEOs admit to seeing no significant financial benefit from AI. Now, another report has come to the same conclusion, and, once again, it tries to put a positive spin on the results.

TSMC struggles to meet surging AI chip demand amid data center boom

Ripple effect: While critics and PC enthusiasts are cheering for the AI bubble to burst, Big Tech and enterprise ventures cannot buy AI accelerators fast enough. In fact, even one of the world's most important chip manufacturers is now facing significant issues with its ability to meet customer demand.

Elon Musk says OpenAI and Microsoft owe him $134 billion in "wrongful gains"

Apple couldn't build the best AI for Siri, so it's borrowing Google's

Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"

OpenAI's employee compensation dwarfs every major tech IPO of the past 25 years

Bottom line: OpenAI's financial model reflects the intense pressure to retain the people driving its breakthroughs. The company's willingness to spend aggressively on equity has redefined what competitive pay looks like in artificial intelligence – and raised the stakes for every firm vying to shape the field's future.

Intel and Nvidia's superchip plans blend CPUs, GPUs, and big money

Nvidia's $4 trillion rise raises questions about financing its own customers

Bottom line: Nvidia's explosive rise to become the world's most valuable company has come with an uneasy question from investors: how much of its record-breaking growth depends on financing its own customers? Now worth more than $4 trillion, Nvidia designs the specialized silicon and software that power AI systems, from data centers hosting ChatGPT to national AI computing hubs. But behind that scale lies a complicated web of investments that critics say resembles vendor financing – a practice in which a company lends money to customers who use those funds to buy its products.

AI created 50 new billionaires in 2025, startup investment pulled in more than $200 billion

Apple announces more senior execs are leaving, including its general counsel and DEI chief

President Macron accuses US of undermining EU investigations into Big Tech

Apple fast-tracks CEO succession plans as Tim Cook could step down next year

Nvidia becomes the first $5 trillion public company in history

Nvidia, one of the few companies profiting from AI, claims there is no AI bubble

Seduction is the new spyware: US tech startups are now the target of "sex warfare"

Mail-order spies: Tech companies employ some of the most robust network security to protect against IP theft. However, no amount of network security protects against theft from within. While corporate espionage is largely digital these days, good old-fashioned infiltration is still in use. China and Russia increasingly use sexual honeypots to compromise employees and gain access to sensitive technology.

Investors continue to sound the alarm on the inevitable burst of the AI bubble

Bottom line: Despite Big Tech pouring trillions into AI initiatives and building massive new data centers, the expected returns may never materialize. Analysts warn that the hype far outpaces reality, creating a precarious financial bubble that could have ripple effects across the broader economy.

Over 800 public figures, including "AI godfathers" and Steve Wozniak, sign open letter to ban superintelligent AI

A hot potato: Tech companies are in a race to create superintelligent AI, regardless of what the consequences of creating something much smarter than humans might be. It's led to hundreds of public figures from the world of tech, politics, media, education, religion, and even royalty signing an open letter calling for a ban on the development of superintelligence until certain conditions are met.