China faces a tall order in its efforts to catch up to Elon Musk’s SpaceX satellite service. SpaceX’s Starlink already has nearly 7,000 operational satellites in orbit and serves around 5 million customers in more than 100 countries, according to SpaceX. The service is meant to offer high-speed internet to customers in remote and underserved […]
Broadcom’s long path to the trillion-dollar club, and Trump’s role
President Donald Trump introduces Broadcom CEO Hock Tan prior to Tan announcing the repatriation of his company’s headquarters to the United States from Singapore during a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, DC, November 2, 2017. Getty Images When Broadcom tried to buy rival Qualcomm for $120 billion in 2018, […]
Inside TSMC’s new chip fab where Apple will make chips in the U.S.
Atop a newly-completed, 3.5-million-square-foot building that stands on 1,100 acres in the Arizona desert north of Phoenix is a giant logo of a microchip wafer and the letters TSMC. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s first Arizona chip fabrication plant, or fab, is making history because it’s the most advanced chip fab on U.S. soil, and Apple […]
OpenAI says ChatGPT has recovered after hours-long outage
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visits “Making Money With Charles Payne” at Fox Business Network Studios in New York on Dec. 4, 2024. Mike Coppola | Getty Images OpenAI said in an early Thursday X post that its popular ChatGPT assistant, Sora video generator and programming interface for software developers were working again after hours of […]
Apple launches its ChatGPT integration with Siri
Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Apple released updates for its iPhone, iPad and Mac software on Wednesday that include a long-awaited ChatGPT integration with Siri. The ChatGPT integration triggers when users ask Siri complicated questions. When Siri is asked a question that Apple’s software identities as better suited for ChatGPT, it asks the […]
Google claims quantum milestone — but can’t solve real-world problems
A woman bikes by a giant Google logo at Google’s Bay View campus in Mountain View, California on Aug 13, 2024 where the “Made by Google” media event was held today. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Google has unveiled a new chip that it says marks a major breakthrough in the field of […]
Ant Group gets new CEO as billionaire founder Jack Ma talks up AI
Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group, speaks during 2020 China Green Companies Summit on September 29, 2020 in Haikou, Hainan Province of China. Liu Yang | Visual China Group | Getty Images Ant Group president and finance chief Cyril Han will take over as chief executive officer from next year, the financial technology giant announced […]
What’s next for Meta’s metaverse
In October 2021, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent his trillion-dollar social media company into a new direction. Facebook changed its name to Meta and Zuckerberg set his sights on a new horizon, the metaverse. “There was genuinely a need and a desire at the time for Facebook, the company, to rebrand into something else,” said […]
Workday shares pop 9% on inclusion in S&P 500
A close-up of the Workday logo on its headquarters in Pleasanton, California. Smith Collection | Archive Photos | Getty Images Workday shares jumped 9% in extended trading on Friday after S&P Dow Jones Indices said the cloud software vendor will be added to the S&P 500. The company, which has a market cap of about […]
Why thermal batteries could replace lithium-ion batteries
Thermal batteries could transform renewable energy storage and provide a cheaper and scalable alternative to lithium-ion technology. “Intermittent wind and solar power are becoming the cheapest forms of energy that humans have ever known, and all kinds of energy storage is now being used to harness that, to drive transportation, to drive the electricity grid,” […]