Alphabet and Microsoft ignited a rally in technology stocks on Friday with earnings that showed big AI investments were driving growth, allaying doubts that their costly bets would take time to pay off after a soft forecast from Meta Platforms. Alphabet rose 10%, crossing $2 trillion in market value with a gain of about $180 billion as it sweetened the pot for investors with its maiden dividend and a $70 billion stock buyback. The world's fourth most valuable firm flirted with the milestone on...
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I'm going to fire myself from writing these intros, since AI does it oh so well anyway. Here's the AI synopsis of this week's show, is it accurate? You'll have to listen to find out! "Jared and Eli discussed personal fans, subscription services, and the reliability of product recommendations for
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Deepfakes are getting good. Like, really good. Earlier this month I went to a studio in East London to get myself digitally cloned by the AI video startup Synthesia. They made…
In this week's TouchArcade Show we follow up on our emulation discussions from last week with our latest experiences with Delta on iPhone, why some high-profile emulators may NOT make it to the App Store despite being allowed now, and our thoughts on the new Miyoo A30.
After the release of a trifecta of episodes of “Bluey,” fans of the Australian children’s TV show about a family of blue heeler dogs are speculating about what’s next for the characters and the series. The popular show, which follows Bluey, her sister Bingo and parents Bandit (Dave McCormack) and Chilli (Melanie Zanetti), was propelled into the pop-culture zeitgeist last month, starting with the release of “Ghostbasket” on April 7, in which viewers learned that the Heelers’ house was for sale. A...
“We’ve worked with charities and people that have gone through this and it’s important that what we’re portraying is real.”
We’re off to an AI-heavy start to the week. OpenAI has a new deal with the Financial Times that caught our eye. Sure, it’s another content licensing deal, but there appears to be a bit more in the tie-up than just content flowing one way and money the other. We also dug into the xAI […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Synthesia presented AI-powered avatars expressing human emotions at X, amid concerns over deepfake videos.
On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss the possibility of the next-generation iPad Pro featuring the M4 chip and what else to expect at Apple's "Let loose" event. Subscribe to The MacRumors Show YouTube channel for more videos While Apple's upcoming iPad Pro models have been expected to feature the M3 chip for over a year, recent reports have unexpectedly suggested that the new devices will instead contain the as-yet-unannounced M4 chip and that a key new feature of the...
As a new app promises to help placate ‘angry girlfriends’ everywhere, Olivia Petter asks what the creation of such technology says about the way we date today
After pouring billions of dollars into the infrastructure needed to support AI applications, both Alphabet and Microsoft report their quarterly revenue growth was outpacing expectations as more users turn to services including the Copilot AI assistant and the Gemini chatbot