The European Commission (EC) on Friday hit Google with a €2.95 billion ($3.46 billion) antitrust fine for “abusive practices” in its adtech business. But observers said that IT leaders should look at the decision as a warning about a potential wave of global regulatory decisions on tech issues.  For example, Friday also saw a major

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, creator of the most popular AI chatbot on Earth, says he’s starting to worry that “dead internet theory” is coming true. “I never took the dead internet theory that seriously,” Altman tweeted in his typical all-lowercase style, “but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now.”

AI fever might have an iron grip on Fortune 500 CEOs, Wall Street traders, and government officials, but there are still some out their immune to the tech industry’s charms. For evidence, look no further than activist and organizer Guido Reichstadter, who’s currently running on day three of a hunger strike on the front steps

Waymo robotaxis are making their way to more American cities, but they’re not always winning the hearts and minds of the people who live there.  The autonomous cars have been spotted blundering the wrong way down a street and causing traffic jams, and residents have quickly grown fed up with their obnoxious back-up noise. They’re

Writing is a wonderful profession… in writers’ dreams! In reality, it’s a grind that’s comically unprofitable for the vast majority, to say nothing of the tortured ennui that comes with having to deal with actually writing, or the thought of actually writing, or the thought of what you aren’t right now actually writing. And the economics are

A government report has found that surging investment has driven UK AI sector growth to outpace the wider economy by 150 times since 2022. The UK’s AI sector is clearly in the throes of a boom, with revenues shattering previous records to hit £23.9 billion in the last year. The engine room of this growth

Most companies approach AI completely backwards. They start with technology capabilities and hunt for problems to solve, asking “How can we use AI?” instead of “What problems do we actually need to solve?” As someone who built and scaled Klipboard from startup to acquisition by Kerridge Commercial Systems in 2024, Draven McConville is someone who

Agora’s Conversational AI Engine offers key enhancements to the Realtime API for more natural communication and interaction. Agora (NASDAQ: API), the leading platform for real-time engagement and conversational AI, today announced expanded support for OpenAI’s Realtime API, now generally available. Agora’s integration with the new Realtime API now supports automated greetings, mixed-modality interaction, selective attention locking and

At Lenovo Innovation World 2025, Lenovo introduced its latest portfolio of AI-powered innovations to date. Spanning high-performance PCs, intelligent tablets, immersive gaming devices, and Motorola smartphones, the new lineup reflects Lenovo’s vision of Smarter AI for All — bringing generative AI and hybrid intelligence into everyday workflows, creativity, and entertainment. “From adaptive form factors and AI-ready workstations

One of the five companies included, Gartner® recognizes Sema4.ai as an innovative startup. Sema4.ai, the enterprise AI agent company, announced its recognition as a Cool Vendor in Gartner’s 2025 “Cool Vendors in Agentic AI” report today. We believe the acknowledgment underscores Sema4.ai’s leadership in delivering secure, governed, and enterprise-ready agentic AI solutions at scale. “We are