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As major AI players waver due to valuation and demand concerns, investors are looking for relatively under-the-radar tech stocks for growth potential. IBM has been gaining ground as the company plans new strategies for a turnaround. The stock is up 16% so far this year. Wamsi Mohan, Bank of America Global Research senior IT hardware analyst, said in a recent program on CNBC that he believes International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) has the ability to meet its targets and called the pullback the company faced “transitory.” “They’ve divested a lot of assets that were not growing, they’ve invested in assets…
(Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. is aiming to release smart glasses at the end of next year as part of a push into AI-enhanced gadgets, but it has shelved plans for a smartwatch that can analyze its surroundings with a built-in camera. Most Read from Bloomberg Company engineers are ramping up work on the glasses — a rival to Meta Platforms Inc.’s popular Ray-Bans — in a bid to meet the year-end 2026 target, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Apple will start producing large quantities of prototypes at the end of this year with overseas suppliers, said the…
Anthropic’s new flagship AI model, Claude Opus 4, is a strong programmer and writer, the company claims. When talking to itself, it’s also a prolific emoji user. That’s according to a technical report Anthropic released on Thursday, a part of which investigates how Opus 4 behaves in “open-ended self-interaction” — i.e. essentially having a chat with itself. In one test that tasked a pair of Opus 4 models with talking to each other over 200, 30-turn interactions, the models used thousands of emojis. Opus 4 sure does like emojisImage Credits:Anthropic Which emojis? Well, per the report, Opus 4 used the…
(Bloomberg) — The Justice Department is probing whether Alphabet Inc.’s Google violated antitrust law with an agreement to use the artificial intelligence technology of a popular chatbot maker, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Most Read from Bloomberg Antitrust enforcers have recently told Google they’re examining whether it structured an agreement with the company known as Character.AI to avoid formal government merger scrutiny, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing the confidential probe. In a deal with Google last year, the founders of the chatbot maker joined the search firm, which also got a non-exclusive…
(Bloomberg) — With much of the world’s attention on the AI race between the US and China, this week’s Computex conference served as a stark reminder of the central role that Taiwan continues to play in the global technology industry. Most Read from Bloomberg The 2025 edition of Asia’s signature tech gathering didn’t break as much new ground as last year, when Nvidia Corp.’s Jensen Huang unveiled a multi-year roadmap for AI chip design. But it still drew the attention of an industry parsing the fallout from Washington’s campaign to curb Beijing’s tech ambitions in the aftermath of DeepSeek. Here…
Three years ago, as the pandemic caused chaos for companies big and small, Colgate-Palmolive’s chief supply chain officer Luciano Sieber orchestrated a “logistics blitz.” The result gave Sieber a better understanding of how Colgate-Palmolive moves its products around the world. But it stuck Sieber with another problem: too much data. About a year ago, Sieber says he found a solution to that problem with Uber Freight. The ride-hailing service’s long-running logistics and analytics arm has been developing new ways to wrangle large amounts of data by using artificial intelligence. Colgate-Palmolive became one of the first companies to use one of…
Andrej Sokolow / picture alliance / Getty Images Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Tuesday announced the company’s free AI Mode, which integrates an AI chatbot tool into search Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google is bringing “AI mode” to all users in the U.S. starting today, a move CEO Sundar Pichai called a “total reimagining of search.” AI mode integrates an AI chatbot tool into search. Google showcased the offering, now free for all users, at its I/O conference Tuesday. The tool allows users to converse within Google Search the way they would with AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. AI mode will appear…
(Bloomberg) — Alphabet Inc.’s investors are looking to this week’s developer conference to see if the company can reset the narrative amid fears that its long-standing market dominance is on shaky ground. Most Read from Bloomberg The Google I/O event, which begins Tuesday, is expected to showcase the company’s latest advancements in artificial intelligence. Positive updates could help ease concerns about the rivals nipping at its heels and eating away at its dominant position in web search, even as the company spends heavily on AI. “The hope is that it will provide a roadmap for a strong future, because right…
Google DeepMind is at the forefront of AI innovation, and no one is more poised to speak to this than Senior Product Manager Logan Kilpatrick. We are pleased to announce he will be joining us on the main stage at TechCrunch Sessions: AI, happening June 5th at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. TC Sessions: AI is almost here — and this is your moment to be part of it. For a limited time, you can pocket savings of up to $600 for a full day of groundbreaking programming, live demos, and high-impact networking with the brightest minds in AI. Better yet,…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during a recent All-In podcast episode he sees all of the major tech companies doing well in the AI race, and that there won’t be one clear winner. There are still more companies to be launched that we don’t know about yet—which will create even more competition. As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly sophisticated and useful, tech giants are pouring much of their research and development dollars into the technology, with much discussion given to picking the winner of “the AI race.” But that’s not how Google CEO Sundar Pichai sees it. “I think all of…