SAN FRANCISCO — Apple snapped out of a recent iPhone sales slump during its summer quarter, an early sign that its recent efforts to revive demand for its marquee product with an infusion of artificial intelligence are paying off. Sales of the iPhone totaled $46.22 billion for the July-September period, a 6% increase from the … Read more
Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services, speaks during The Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, on Oct. 21, 2024. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Amazon said revenue in its cloud unit increased 19% in third quarter, just missing analyst estimates. Revenue at Amazon Web Services totaled $27.45 … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI is launching a ChatGPT-powered search engine that could put the artificial intelligence company in direct competition with Google and affect the flow of internet traffic seeking news, sports scores and other timely information. San Francisco-based OpenAI said Thursday it is releasing a search feature to paid users of ChatGPT but will … Read more
Dominika Zarzycka | Nurphoto | Getty Images Amazon’s online advertising business brought in $14.3 billion in the third quarter, up 19% year over year, in line with analysts’ estimates of $14.3 billion. The Seattle tech giant revealed the financial results of its growing advertising unit as part of its latest earnings report on Thursday. Amazon’s … Read more
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at a company event on artificial intelligence technologies in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Dimas Ardian | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft‘s better-than-expected earnings report wasn’t enough to prevent the stock’s steepest selloff in two years, as investors instead focused on the company’s forecast for the current period. Microsoft … Read more
In this photo illustration, the OpenAI logo is displayed on a mobile phone screen with a photo of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. Didem Mente | Anadolu | Getty Images OpenAI on Thursday launched a search feature within ChatGPT, its viral chatbot, that positions the high-powered artificial intelligence startup to better compete with search engines … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO — With just days before the presidential election, Latino voters are facing a barrage of targeted ads in Spanish and a new source of political messaging in the artificial intelligence age: chatbots generating unfounded claims in Spanish about voting rights. AI models are producing a stream of election-related falsehoods in Spanish more frequently … Read more
WASHINGTON — Hacking a local election system in the United States wouldn’t be easy, and secretly altering votes on a scale massive enough to change the outcome of the presidential race would be impossible, election officials have said, thanks to decentralized systems, paper records for nearly all ballots, exhaustive reviews, legal due process and decades … Read more
Amazon will report results for the third quarter after the bell Thursday. Here’s what analysts are expecting: Earnings: $1.14 per share expected by LSEG Revenue: $157.2 billion expected by LSEG Amazon Web Services: $27.5 billion, according to StreetAccount Advertising: $14.3 billion, according to StreetAccount The company warned in its most recent earnings report that sales … Read more
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds a smartphone, as he makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S. September 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Threads, Meta‘s rival to Elon Musk’s X app, now has nearly 275 million monthly users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday. … Read more