Google and Meta reveal uneven investor patience for AI
Alphabet’s shares rose sharply, while Meta’s lost almost a tenth of their value following release of financial results this week
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Google outpaces rivals as Big Tech’s AI spending plans rise to $725bn
Meta stock drops on capex increase while Alphabet’s cloud business grows faster than rivals Amazon and Microsoft
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Meta’s latest smart glasses come with good video quality and improved audio, along with better battery life
Google staff urge chief executive to block US military AI use
Over 560 employees sign open letter to Sundar Pichai following the Pentagon’s clash with Anthropic
‘The time is right’: Galway woman seeks €50m to create Ireland’s ‘first luxury goods group’
Paris-based Ashley McDonnell has set up Vyko Group to invest in Irish fashion and beauty brands
As Apple’s new chief, John Ternus needs to find a successor to the iPhone, and fast
Incoming chief executive John Ternus faces a raft of decisions on Apple’s future strategy
AI has an awful image problem
Most alarmingly, those likely to live longest in the AI-defined future appear the most alarmed by it
Facebook, Google ‘profited from adverts for illegal medicines’, report claims
Reset Tech has collected more than 352,000 ads promoting so-called clickbait cures on Facebook and Google
The weird world of work perks
Companies are reining in benefits, but workers are unlikely to miss some of them as much as you might think
Bogus complaints see Irish Times articles, solicitor’s videos on Rob Heneghan delisted by Google
News reports about high-profile betting tipster removed from search results while Terry Gorry has social media accounts disabled
BBC to cut one in 10 jobs in radical downsizing
New director-general Matt Brittin to replace Tim Davie next month
Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff
Mark Zuckerberg is training and testing his own character as part of wider push to develop ‘personal superintelligence’
Tech problems? Even astronauts can’t outrun them
Artemis II’s commander couldn’t get Outlook to work on his personal device, proof that astronauts are just like the rest of us
What to do when the ‘public good’ of information goes bad
The creation and dissemination of reliable news is at an economic disadvantage
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