Nokia names Justin Hotard, who currently leads Intel's Data Center and AI operations, as its CEO starting April 1, as it focuses on data centers to drive growth — The telecom company expects data centers to be its number one growth driver in the coming years
TSMC says losses from January's earthquake would be ~$161.5M, dragging its Q1 revenue guidance to $25B to $25.8B, up 35.9% YoY but at the lower end of its range — TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said Monday that losses from the 6.4-magnitude earthquake in January would amount …
How DeepSeek's R1 accelerated the rollout of chatbots showing their “thinking” process; an expert says seeing a chatbot's inner monologue can trigger empathy — How Chinese start-up DeepSeek triggered a rush to launch chatbots that “reason.” — Chinese start-up DeepSeek …
A look at WikiTok, a site that lets users vertically swipe through an endless stream of random Wikipedia article stubs without algorithmically tracking the user — On Wednesday, a New York-based app developer named Isaac Gemal debuted a new site called WikiTok, where users can vertically swipe through …
An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector unemployment rate rose from 3.9% in December to 5.7% in January, with the number of unemployed rising from 98K to 152K — Artificial intelligence continues to impact the technology labor market — The unemployment rate in the information technology sector rose …
Indian Electronics and Semiconductor Association: the semiconductor market in India is projected to grow to $103.4B at a CAGR of 13% through 2030 — India's semiconductor consumption market, valued at $52 billion in 2024-25, is expected to grow at a 13% CAGR through 2030.
TikTok advises its US Android users to sideload the app through APKs made available for download on its official website — The social media app is still not available on Apple App Store and Google Play. — If you need to download and install TikTok in the US, you can do so on Android …
How Sam Altman outflanked Elon Musk to win over Donald Trump, including by telling Trump in a phone call that AGI will be achieved during his second term — After helping President Trump get elected, Elon Musk was poised to dominate the country's A.I. policies. Then Mr. Altman sneaked into the White House.
Tests show DeepSeek's chatbot often hallucinates URLs in citations and admits that sharing news articles' content could violate copyright and paywall policies — The DeepSeek hype cycle is in full force, but can the chatbot attribute sources more accurately than its competitors?
A look at the daunting task for Google and others of mapping roads and maintaining accurate maps in India, amid growing reports of misdirections in the country — Maintaining accurate maps is a daunting task in a country where road names and addresses are not standardized.
Sources: in a secret order last month, UK security officials demanded Apple create a backdoor to access all cloud content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded — Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content …
Cloudflare reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $459.9M, fiscal 2024 revenue up 29% YoY to $1.67B, and number of customers spending $1M+/year up 47% YoY to 173 — - Fourth quarter revenue totaled $459.9 million, representing an increase of 27% year-over-year; fiscal year 2024 revenue totaled $1,669.6 million …
In Q4 2024, AMD's data center business outsold Intel for the first time, with $3.86B in revenue, up 69% YoY, to Intel's $3.4B, but analysts expected more sales — But sales of Instinct GPUs disappoint. — AMD on Tuesday announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2024 and for the whole year.
A profile of Joseph Firmage, who founded USWeb, which went public with a $2.5B market cap in 1997, and is now being sued by “antigravity-machine” investors — Joseph Firmage helped create today's digital economy. These days, he's being sued by antigravity-machine investors …
In 2024, global semiconductor revenue rose 18.1% YoY to ~$626B, led by Samsung, which regained top spot, Intel, and Nvidia, and is set to reach $705B in 2025 — Overview — Samsung Electronics Regained No. 1 Spot from Intel and Nvidia Climbed to 3rd Place
Alistair Barr / Business Insider : TrueUp data shows over 67,000 software engineering job openings, up 30% so far in 2026 and the most in...
