White House Announces $1 Billion Plan to Create AI, Quantum Institutes
The effort is designed to ensure the U.S. remains globally competitive in AI and quantum technologies, administration officials said.
The Chinese financial-technology giant controlled by Jack Ma released detailed financials for the first time as it gears up for what is likely to be a record-breaking IPO. The filing showed a highly profitable business with more than one billion annual active users on its Alipay app.
A California federal judge granted the maker of “Fortnite” a partial reprieve in its battle against Apple.
Mark Zuckerberg emphasized that Chinese internet companies posed a threat as he worked to fend off U.S. regulation of Facebook.
More than a dozen major U.S. multinational companies raised concerns in a call with White House officials about the potentially broad scope and impact of Mr. Trump’s executive order targeting WeChat.
Merger deals are rarely simple. But Satya Nadella now is attempting to ink a takeover agreement that satisfies not only both the companies and their shareholders, but two governments in bitter competition for technological clout.
The National Security Agency issued new guidance for military and intelligence-community personnel, warning about the risks of cellphone location tracking through apps, wireless networks and Bluetooth technology.
The chief executives of Amazon.com, Facebook, Apple and Google faced relentless criticism at a congressional hearing Wednesday, with Democrats and Republicans alike challenging their business practices.
The pandemic has made business more dependent on cloud-computing than ever—and companies are now racing to rein in the soaring costs.
The tech giant will keep its employees home until at least next July, making the search-engine giant the first major U.S. corporation to formalize such an extended timetable.
Thousands of companies will face restrictions on storing information about European Union residents on U.S. servers, after the bloc’s top court ruled that such transfers exposed Europeans to American government surveillance without “actionable rights” to challenge it.
Apple was also apparently hacked. It was latest in a series of security failures on the social-media platform.
The British government said it would bar telecom companies from purchasing new equipment made by China’s Huawei and gave them until 2027 to remove its technology from their 5G wireless networks, a sharp about-face that marks a significant victory for the U.S.
An audit commissioned by Facebook urged it to improve artificial intelligence-based tools it uses to help identify problematic content such as hate speech, showcasing the limits of technology in policing the world’s largest social media platform.
The social-media giant has been too reactive and slow in addressing hate speech, voter suppression and other problematic content on its platform, according to a report from lawyers hired by the company.
Palantir Technologies said it has confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public, ending an extended wait that made the data analytics company one of Silicon Valley’s oldest private startups.
Google, Facebook and Twitter are among tech companies that have suspended processing requests for user data from Hong Kong law-enforcement agencies following China’s imposition of a national-security law on the city.
The Chinese maker of TikTok, the popular short-video platform, said it would pull its app out of Hong Kong amid concerns about a new national-security law, its second market exit in as many weeks.
The deal combines Uber Eats and Postmates and is the latest in a flurry of consolidation moves in the food-delivery sector.
Leaders of civil rights groups are meeting with Facebook executives after calling for an ad boycott of the platform for the month of July. Facebook, which has been under growing pressure to change and update some of its content and brand-safety policies, this week requested a new meeting with civil rights leaders.
Semiconductor Manufacturing International is preparing a $6.55 billion stock offering on Shanghai’s high-tech STAR market, as China moves to shore up its semiconductor capabilities amid heightened tensions with the U.S.
Google, Amazon and Facebook face proposed European rules aimed at curbing their alleged anticompetitive behavior, making them pay more taxes and compelling them to shoulder more responsibility for illegal content.
Startup Circadia Technologies has received FDA approval for a bedside device that remotely monitors breathing using artificial intelligence and that has been shown to help detect Covid-19 symptoms such as breathlessness.
Augmented reality, or AR, has transitioned during the pandemic from intriguing experiment to everyday tool, widening the industrial adoption of a technology that many in the tech industry argue hasn’t measured up to its promise in the consumer market.
The tech giant sees Teams, its group conferencing and collaboration software, as critical to its future. Some rivals say Microsoft has deployed sharp-elbowed business tactics to get in front.