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Big Tech may benefit as EU considers easing AI regulations
Apple, Meta Platforms, and other tech giants could gain a reprieve from the EU’s AI regulations, as the European Commission considers…
Meta’s WhatsApp rolls out Liquid Glass redesign to iOS 26 users
WhatsApp’s latest iOS update, version 25.28.75, is now available on the App Store, introducing Apple’s sleek new Liquid Glass design…
Apple has plenty of runway to fine-tune its own smart glasses – Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer analysts state that Apple’s hardware ecosystem is not immediately threatened by new AI-enabled smart glasses, as…
Apple, Google, and Meta race to build the universal translator
Apple, Google, and Meta are leveraging AI advancements to introduce new translation features in their latest devices. Apple’s AirPods Pro 3…
President Trump threatens more tariffs for countries imposing digital taxes
U.S. President Donald Trump warned that countries imposing digital taxes could face “substantial additional tariffs” on their exports unless…
Meta poaches another Apple AI executive
Meta Platforms is hiring another key Apple artificial intelligence executive, even as the social networking company prepares to slow…
Dollar strengthens on US-EU trade deal
The dollar strengthened against major currencies on Monday following a U.S.-EU framework trade agreement, part of a series of deals…
Meta hires two key Apple AI experts
Meta Platforms recruited Mark Lee and Tom Gunter, two prominent AI researchers from Apple Inc., to join its Superintelligence Labs team…
Apple plans to launch smartglasses by the end of 2026
Apple plans to launch smart glasses by the end of 2026. Company engineers are accelerating development to compete with Meta…
‘Magnificent Seven’ stocks decline as Amazon, Apple, Meta, Nvidia, Tesla sell off
While the “Magnificent Seven” stocks (Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, and Tesla) dominated the market in 2024…
U.S. states consider App Store age-verification laws
The battle over online child safety is heating up again in state legislatures nationwide in 2025, setting social-media giant Meta Platforms…
President Trump says he’ll impose retaliatory tariffs for digital taxes, fines, practices, and policies on Apple, other American tech firms
On Friday, President Donald Trump announced that he would issue a Presidential Memorandum imposing tariffs on nations that apply…
Britain signals it is prepared to go easier on Big Tech regulation
Britain’s appointment of a former Amazon exec to lead antitrust is seen as an invitation for investment, particularly from Big Tech…
With President Trump inbound, EU reassesses tech probes into Apple, Google and Meta
The European Union (EU) is reassessing its investigations of tech groups including Apple and others, just as President Donald Trump…
Apple joins Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium to help develop next-gen AI data center tech
Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium (UALink) has announced the expansion of its Board of Directors with the election of Apple, Alibaba Cloud…
European Union on collision course with President Trump over Apple, X, other big tech companies
Multiple tech giants, including Apple, Google, Meta, and Elon Musk’s X, are facing a potential wave of significant fines and even forced…
Meta looks to knock off Apple Vision Pro’s EyeSight feature
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has filed a patent that looks very similar to Apple Vision Pro’s EyeSight feature. Meta’s patent application is…
President Trump’s VP pick J.D. Vance supports Big Tech crackdown
Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick J.D. Vance supports using antitrust laws to challenge Big Tech, especially in…
Apple has zero interest in offering Meta’s Llama chatbot in Apple Intelligence
Last Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was in discussions to offer Meta’s Llama chatbot as an option alongside OpenAI…
Apple and Meta have held talks about integrating Meta’s generative AI model into Apple Intelligence
Facebook and Instagram parent Meta has held discussions with Apple about integrating Meta Platforms’ generative AI model into…
DBRX: Inside the creation of the world’s most powerful open source AI model
Startup Databricks just released DBRX, the most powerful open source large language model yet — eclipsing Meta’s Llama 2…
Apple and the rest of ‘The Magnificent Seven’ dominate the S&P 500
The U.S. stock market is nearly the most concentrated it has ever been – the only exception being the late 1920s (gulp) – with the top five…
Mark Zuckerberg tries Apple Vision Pro, claims Meta Quest 3 is ‘the best product, period’
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried the Apple Vision Pro spatial computer yet still claims that his company’s Quest 3 AR/VR headset…
Meta’s X rival ‘Threads’ hemorrhages more than half of its users
Meta executives are focusing heavily on user retention for their new 𝕏 (née Twitter) rival, Threads, after the app lost more than half…
Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and Amazon team up on maps in effort to crack Apple-Google duopoly
A group of tech companies, including Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and Amazon Web Services, is releasing a dataset of map data that could…
Apple bans knockoff of Threads, Meta’s Twitter knockoff, from App Store
Apple has pulled a knockoff of Meta’s Threads knockoff of Twitter called “Threads for Insta,” and all other apps from developer SocialKit…
Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft say they meet EU gatekeeper threshold
Seven tech giants, including Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, have said they meet the EU’s new criteria for “gatekeepers”…
Meta’s Zuckerberg dismisses Apple Vision Pro; ‘not the one that I want’
In all-hands meeting and email to employees, Meta CEO says that the Apple Vision Pro is “not the one that I want,” and “there’s no kind of…
Meta’s quixotic Quest cannot compete with Apple’s Vision Pro
Four days before Apple entered, and redefined, the nascent extended-reality (XR) headset market by going far, far beyond merely that with…
Zuckerberg panics, Osborne Effects Meta with rushed ‘Quest 3’ headset reveal
Four days before Apple is expected to enter, and likely redefine, the mixed-reality (XR) headset market, Meta pre-announced its Quest 3 …
Apple, other tech firms push to curb U.S. government spying on texts, emails
Apple and other large tech companies are mounting a push to limit how U.S. government intelligence agencies collect and view …
Apple generates an amazing $2.4 million in annual revenue per employee
Apple has consistently been the most efficient of the major U.S. technology companies when measured on revenue generated per…
Facebook-parent Meta no longer in the top 20 most-valuable U.S. companies
A year ago, Facebook was among the five most valuable U.S. companies, with a market cap over $1 trillion. Now the company, renamed Meta…
Apple’s Federighi: Privacy and advertising can coexist
Apple’s software chief Craig Federighi said advertising and privacy can coexist as the company’s push to give users control of their privacy…
Nasdaq futures drop over 1% as Microsoft, Google earnings fan slowdown fears
Nasdaq tech stock futures fell more than 1% on Wednesday as disappointing results and warnings from Microsoft and Alphabet sparked losses…
Meta’s Zuckerberg takes aim at Apple’s iMessage new ad
Facebook- and Instagram-partent Meta is targeting Apple’s iMessage in a new advertisement touting Meta’s WhatsApp’s…
U.S. stock futures fall on growing worries of economic downturn
U.S. stock index futures fell on Thursday on worries of rampant U.S. inflation, recession, a global economic downturn from…
U.S. antitrust bill on brink of defeat
Legislation pushed by some in the U.S. Congress claiming to rein in the nation’s biggest internet companies is on the brink of defeat…
Australia demands Apple, others share anti-CSAM steps, threatens fines
Australia sent s legal letter to Apple demanding they share their strategies for stamping out Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)…
Marketers cut back on ad spending after Apple gave users their privacy back
Marketers are cutting back on ad spending due to Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy framework that gave users their privacy back…
Clock running out on U.S. Congress’ antitrust bill targeting Big Tech
In a setback for supporters in the U.S. House and Senate who had been pushing for a vote before the midterm elections, Congress is set…
