Big tech articles

OpenAI turns to Oracle in historic $300 billion cloud partnership

Larry Ellison leapfrogs Elon Musk to become world's richest person

Nearly 40% of Nvidia's revenue tied to two mystery customers, filing shows

Musk makes good on his threat to sue Apple and OpenAI over antitrust collusion

Elon Musk wanted Zuckerberg's help to take over OpenAI, court filings reveal

Cisco lays off 221 people despite revenue surge and CEO's claim AI wouldn't cost jobs

A hot potato: Cisco has announced that it will become the latest tech giant to lay off workers just as its revenue is soaring and AI becomes the most important focus. The move comes a week after CEO Chuck Robbins told an interviewer, "I don't want to get rid of a bunch of people right now."

Elon Musk says he will sue Apple over anticompetitive ChatGPT favoritism in App Store

Microsoft, Meta, and startups are battling for AI talent with more than just money

Apple unveils new $100 billion US investment plan amid tariff pressure

Tim Cook says AI is now Apple's top priority, "bigger than the internet"

Big quote: In a rare all-hands meeting at Apple's Cupertino headquarters, CEO Tim Cook made it clear to thousands of employees that AI now stands at the forefront of the company's ambitions. Addressing a packed auditorium following a stronger-than-expected earnings report, Cook called the AI transformation "as big or bigger" than the internet, the smartphone, cloud computing, and apps. "Apple must do this. Apple will do this. This is sort of ours to grab," Cook told staff, vowing, "We will make the investment to do it."

AI engineers reject Meta's $1.5 billion offers to build on their own terms

Trump administration's digital health tracking system gives tech giants access to medical records

Forward-looking: The Trump administration wants the US public to upload personal health data and medical records to a series of apps and systems managed by private health companies and tech giants. The move is supposed to allow easier access to health records across the nation, bringing personal healthcare into the digital age, but there are plenty of concerns about the security of the data and the possibility that it could be exploited.

Layoffs surge in tech: More than 100,000 jobs cut in 2025 so far

Big quote: As Frank Herbert writes in Dune, "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

Silicon Valley's AI boom turns into a battle for brains – and billions

Perplexity CEO's warning to startups: big tech will "copy anything that's good"

Google hires Windsurf founders, derailing OpenAI's $3 billion acquisition

US Senators introduce bipartisan bill to enable third-party app stores on iPhones

Nvidia's RTX 5060 launch and the erosion of independent GPU reviews

Facepalm: As Computex 2025 is set to unfold in Taipei, much of the tech world's attention will be understandably drawn to new innovations and big announcements at the show. Yet, amid the buzz, a more troubling story is playing out behind the scenes – one that raises serious concerns about transparency, media integrity, and the trustworthiness of GPU launch coverage. The issue? Nvidia's release strategy for the GeForce RTX 5060, and how the company is manipulating public perception through tightly controlled media "previews."

Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model

"App Store Freedom Act" would force Apple and Google to allow third-party app stores

AI is reshaping chip design tools, and the results are impossible to ignore

Why it matters: As powerful as AI may be, many industries are still struggling to find clear-cut applications that make a measurable, demonstrable difference. Thankfully, that is not the case when it comes to chip design software. In fact, since their introduction just a few years ago, AI-powered features have become a mainstay of EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools from companies such as Cadence and Synopsys.

The reality of today's tech industry: layoffs, long hours, AI threats, and few perks

In a nutshell: It had long been said that a career in tech was the ultimate dream: high salaries, security, and a huge number of perks made for some very happy workers. But things look quite different today. The tech world has seen the highest number of layoffs of any private sector industry this year; perks have been cut; salaries aren't increasing in line with the extra demands; and there's the constant spectre of AI.

Apple and Meta hit with combined $797 million fine for violating EU's DMA antitrust rules

Judge rules Google built illegal ad monopoly, DOJ threatens another breakup

Big Tech avoided $278 billion in corporate tax over the past decade, says watchdog

Cutting corners: A new report has reignited the debate over how much tax the world's largest technology companies pay, revealing that the so-called "Silicon Six" – Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Netflix – have paid nearly $278 billion less in corporate income tax over the past decade than would be expected if their profits were taxed at the average statutory rate for US companies.