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OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman appears on screen during a talk with Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella at the Microsoft Build 2025, conference in Seattle, Washington on May 19, 2025. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images OpenAI said on Wednesday that it’s buying Jony Ive’s AI devices startup io for…
The Amazon Prime logo is displayed on Amazon delivery trucks in Richmond, California, June 21, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Department of Justice officials on Tuesday charged members or associates of an Armenian organized crime ring with stealing more than $83 million worth of cargo from Amazon by posing as legitimate truck drivers and…
Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Apple approved the Epic Games title Fortnite on Tuesday, returning the first-person shooter game to the App Store in the U.S., five years after its removal. Fortnite was kicked off the App Store in 2020 after Epic updated its game over the web to take…
This illustration picture shows a person waiting for an update of Epic Games’ Fortnite on their smartphone in Los Angeles on August 14, 2020. Chris Delmas | AFP | Getty Images Apple must work out its latest issues with Epic Games, or head back to court to prove it has a legal basis for delaying…
An Amazon device is displayed at an Amazon Devices launch event in New York City on Feb. 26, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Amazon is laying off roughly 100 employees in its devices and services division, the company confirmed Wednesday. The devices and services unit includes a wide range of businesses, such as the Alexa…
Shares of artificial intelligence infrastructure provider CoreWeave reported better-than-expected revenue on Wednesday in the company’s first earnings release since going public. The company also called for faster growth than expected for all of 2025. Here’s how CoreWeave did in comparison to LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: Loss of $1.49 Revenue: $981.6 million vs. $853 million…
Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi. Databricks Data analytics startup Databricks said Wednesday that it’s buying Neon, a cloud-based database software vendor, for about $1 billion. It’s the latest big deal for Databricks, which bought artificial intelligence model training startup MosaicML for $1.3 billion in 2023 and paid over $1 billion last year for data…
A robotic arm fills prescriptions at a Walgreens’ micro-fulfillment center. Courtesy: Walgreens As struggling drugstore chains work to regain their footing, Walgreens is doubling down on automation. The company is expanding the number of retail stores served by its micro-fulfillment centers, which use robots to fill thousands of prescriptions for patients who take medications to…
Vincent Feuray | Afp | Getty Images The digital advertising market was sunny enough for investors this past quarter, providing what could be a last hurrah before a looming economic storm from President Donald Trump‘s tariff onslaught. Wall Street cheered the first-quarter results from tech giants like Meta and Alphabet, which both saw shares rise…
On Sunday morning, as Holly LaFavers was preparing to go to church, a delivery worker dropped off a 25-pound box of lollipops in front of her apartment building in Lexington, Ky. And another. And then another. Soon, 22 boxes of 50,600 lollipops were stacked five boxes high in two walls of Dum-Dums. That was when…