People looking for missing bags wait in line to speak with Delta Air Lines baggage in the Delta Air Lines baggage claim area Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on July 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Delta Air Lines on Friday filed a lawsuit against CrowdStrike in […]
How I turned ChatGPT into my tour guide in Italy
Traveling through Italy, I used ChatGPT as a tour guide for the moments where my mom and I wandered into interesting little corners, alleys and buildings where our curiosity was piqued with no tour guide around. Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC As I stood with my mom under the blistering sun in Rome waiting for our audio tour […]
Amazon turns to team of ex-prosecutors to try to fight counterfeiters
In 2018, police showed up at a nondescript industrial warehouse in New York’s Brooklyn Navy Yard to investigate reported counterfeits. Federal agents were looking for knockoff military gear as part of an investigation into a distributor, called California Surplus, that had secured a $20 million contract to supply the U.S. military with specialized uniforms. They’d […]
Nvidia boosts India push with Hindi language model and parnterships
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during Computex 2024 in Taipei on June 4, 2024. I-hwa Cheng | AFP | Getty Images Nvidia on Thursday announced a slew of partnerships with major Indian firms and launched a Hindi language model, as the American chip company looks to ramp up business in one of the world’s biggest […]
Inside the fall of 23andMe
Once worth $6 billion, 23andMe has lost 98% of its value and is on the verge of being delisted from the Nasdaq after all of its independent board members resigned in September. So what happened? Founded in 2006, 23andMe set out to revolutionize the once very exclusive genetic testing business with a direct-to-consumer model. Thanks […]
SAP CEO urges Europe not to regulate AI, says will put region behind
Christian Klein, Co-CEO of German software and cloud computing giant SAP, speaks during a press conference to present SAP’s financial results for 2019 on January 28, 2020 in Walldorf, southwestern Germany. – German software giant SAP reported a bottom line undermined by heavy restructuring costs, but lifted forecasts for the year ahead. Daniel Roland | […]
Microsoft to allow autonomous AI agent development next month
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 LONDON — Microsoft will allow businesses to start making their own autonomous artificial intelligence agents starting next month, taking the fight back to Salesforce, which introduced its own configurable […]
Tech companies head to Las Vegas to tout health AI tools
Visitors check out Nvidia’s AI technology at the 2024 Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, China, on September 19, 2024. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Nvidia, Google, Microsoft and dozens of other tech companies are descending on Las Vegas next week to showcase artificial intelligence tools they say will save doctors and nurses valuable time. Sunday […]
Crypto’s $130 million election binge has boosted Utah’s John Curtis
U.S. Rep. John Curtis speaks during the Utah Senate primary debate for Republican contenders battling to win the seat of retiring U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, June 10, 2024, in Salt Lake City. Rick Bowmer | AP SALT LAKE CITY — John Curtis, a Republican congressman from Utah, has become a favorite of the crypto industry […]
AWS CEO says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave
Amazon‘s cloud boss on Thursday gave employees a frank message about the company’s recently announced five-day in-office mandate. Staffers who don’t agree with Amazon’s new policy can leave, Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said during an all-hands meeting at the company’s second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. “If there are people who just don’t work […]