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☆ Watch CNBC's full interview with Needham's Laura Martin and The Verge's Nilay Patel on Apple's future
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC's full interview with Needham's Laura Martin and The Verge's Nilay Patel on Apple's futureLaura Martin, senior internet and media analyst at Needham; and Nilay Patel, editor in chief of The Verge; and CNBC's Steve Kovach join 'The Exchange' to share details on Apple's new iPad, the company's approach to AI, and more.

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☆ The iPad's operating system 'needs a revamp,' says The Verge's Nilay Patel
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailThe iPad's operating system 'needs a revamp,' says The Verge's Nilay PatelLaura Martin, senior internet and media analyst at Needham, Nilay Patel, editor in chief of The Verge, and CNBC's Steve Kovach join 'The Exchange' to share details on Apple's new iPad, how Apple will approach AI, and more.

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☆ Google 'personifies' the culture shift happening across corporate America: The Verge's Alex Heath
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailGoogle 'personifies' the culture shift happening across corporate America: The Verge's Alex HeathAlex Heath, The Verge deputy editor, and Joanne Lipman, Yale University lecturer, join 'Squawk Box' to discuss the fallout from Google's firing of 50 employees after protests at company offices over a cloud computing deal with Israel, the broader shift in work culture across Big Tech and corporate America, FTC's ban on noncompete clauses, and more.

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☆ Humane's AI Pin reviews are decidedly mixed: 'Doesn't work half the time'
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Humane's wearable AI pin became available nationwide today. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Humane says its wearable AI Pin, which it hopes will one day replace your smartphone, can do everything from making phone calls to projecting information onto the palm of your hand. That pretty much sums up my first three days with Humane's AI Pin," he wrote. The consensus seems that Humane's AI Pin is nowhere near replacing your smartphone, but it has potential.

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☆ It's hard to compete with Elon Musk when recruiting AI talent, CEO says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-18 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said Elon Musk's xAI is stiff competition in the recruiting space. The AI CEO said Musk's company offers the highest compensation at the moment. Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of the AI company Perplexity, said it can be difficult to compete with the Tesla CEO when recruiting. Musk launched his own AI startup, xAI, last year and Srinivas said it has since become one of the highest-paying companies for AI talent — on par with OpenAI. In January, Financial Times reported that Musk's AI venture was in talks to raise $6 billion at around a $20 billion valuation.

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☆ Google's Gemini firestorm shows the risks of the company's race to catch up with its AI rivals
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. The company has been defending itself against fierce backlash sparked by its AI chatbot's image-generating feature. The product has landed Google at the center of what was described in some circles as a "woke" culture war. AdvertisementGoogle's 'Gemini era' is all about GPT-4Pichai claimed late last year Google was entering its "Gemini era." The model is widely seen as the company's answer to OpenAI's GPT-4, a product heavily backed by Microsoft and already powering many of the company's AI products.

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☆ Wait. Why is Reddit losing so much money?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Last year, according to Reddit's newly filed IPO documents, the company generated $804 million in revenue and lost nearly $91 million. But it's still a lot of money to lose selling a free product. AdvertisementOne big, obvious answer: It has been hiring a lot of engineers and spending a lot of money on their salaries. (Note: There are some dumb stories floating out there about Reddit CEO Steve Huffman getting paid $193 million last year. The best argument I can make in their defense is that Reddit is still adding a lot of users and that more users equals more ad money.

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☆ Here's why Microsoft is going to let you play Xbox games on rival consoles
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Big news for (some) video game players: Microsoft is going to stop making you use Microsoft devices to play (some) Microsoft games. AdvertisementVery short summary of the console video game business: It's common for video game hardware makers to also own or license games that are exclusively for their devices. The idea is that a single game (or several games) will be enough reason for a gamer to buy a specific device. Maybe, as Warren reports, Microsoft will also announce new hardware plans at the same time it makes the new software change. But it's hard to see how the games move alone is going to be anything more than Microsoft accepting reality.

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☆ The first full reviews are in for Apple's Vision Pro. Here's what people are saying.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewThere's a lot of hype around the new Apple Vision Pro ahead of its launch in the US this Friday. AdvertisementIt's great for entertainment like watching movies …Reviewers seemed to have a positive experience watching movies on the Vision Pro. Spoonauer felt he "could see myself taking the Vision Pro on business trips and using it back at the hotel." "Other headsets have eye tracking and hand tracking, but none have the combination working as smoothly, subtly and intuitively as the Vision Pro," he wrote. Patel called the Vision Pro "a VR headset masquerading as an AR headset."

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☆ Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the tech giant's staff must brace for more job cuts in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in an internal memo that there'll be more "role eliminations" in 2024. The tech giant laid off hundreds of staff working on its devices and services in January. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai says there will be more layoffs at the search giant in 2024.

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☆ Apple just gave new demos for the Vision Pro. The technology is 'fun,' but some testers still don't see the point.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewAhead of the February 2 launch of Apple's Vision Pro, reporters were again given access to the virtual reality headset. "Talking to someone today while they were wearing Vision Pro the render of their eyes was deeply real," Josh Rubin at Cool Hunting said on Threads. It is still just a VR headset 'searching for a purpose'One overarching critique of the Vision Pro has been: What's the point? AdvertisementIn this most recent round of opinions, it seems testers can't see past the limited use cases for the Vision Pro. "I'm just still trying to see where it fits in the real world," Song wrote.

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☆ Google staff sound off about 'corporate overlords,' impersonal layoffs, and a changing company culture, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewIt's just days since Google employees were hit by another round of layoffs. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. However, CEO Sundar Pichai has yet to address the new round of layoffs internally, a report by The Verge's Command Line said. The poorly explained job cuts have left some employees disgruntled and lashing out against management. The popular post, which referenced Google's last round of job cuts, read: "Thank you, our corporate overlords, for our new annual tradition."

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☆ Sam Altman says he feels 'selfishly' good about having gotten ousted from OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

"I learned that the company can truly function without me," Altman told The Verge's Alex Heath. Altman told Heath that this meant he's either "picked great leaders" or "mentored them well." "I learned that the company can truly function without me, and that's a very nice thing," Altman told Heath in a phone call on Wednesday. Altman told Heath that his first reaction to being asked by the board to return as OpenAI's CEO was "sort of one of defiance." Advertisement"It was like, 'Man, I'm hurt and angry, and I think this sucks,'" Altman told Heath.

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☆ Sam Altman is 'working hard to go back to OpenAI', says The Verge's Nilay Patel
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSam Altman is 'working hard to go back to OpenAI', says The Verge's Nilay PatelNilay Patel, The Verge editor-in-chief, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the latest developments on the boardroom drama at OpenAI, what's at stake for both Sam Altman and the company, and more.

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☆ OpenAI might not exist anymore if board holdouts don't step down, says The Verge's Nilay Patel
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailOpenAI might not exist anymore if board holdouts don't step down, says The Verge's Nilay PatelNilay Patel, The Verge editor-in-chief, joins CNBC's Steve Kovach and Jon Fortt for a Special Report surrounding the leadership turmoil at OpenAI, Microsoft's reaction, and more.

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☆ What's the iPhone screen of a former president look like? Obama just shared his most-used apps.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Obama gave a quick tour of his phone habits in an interview with The Verge. AdvertisementAdvertisementWhat is former President Barack Obama doing when he picks up his phone with a few minutes to kill? It turns out he's using some popular apps. Obama shared what apps are on his iPhone dock and some on his home screen in new interview with The Verge published Tuesday. In the rest of the interview, Obama talked about AI advancements, regulations for AI, and free speech, among other topics.

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☆ The SEO world is up in arms after a story said they're 'ruining the internet.' Here's the spicy drama.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementAre your Google search results increasingly irrelevant — worthless, even? The Verge article, written by Amanda Chicago Lewis, is 8,000 words and starts with an anecdote about attending a search-engine optimization industry event that featured a live alligator. It seeks to answer a question many of us have thought: Why does it seem like Google search sucks now? AdvertisementAdvertisementDespite The Verge's headline (which, as far as I can tell, isn't even good SEO), Lewis doesn't really say that SEO experts ruined the internet. Spammy and misleading SEO are noticeable; good SEO, the kind the people in this article do, is unseen.

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☆ Elon Musk wants your 'entire financial life' on X: Report
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Jake Piazza | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X, formerly Twitter, attends a U.S. Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 13, 2023. X owner Elon Musk is attempting to create a future in which X users can use the platform for their entire financial lives, according to a report from The Verge. "When I say payments, I actually mean someone's entire financial life," Musk said in the meeting, according to The Verge's article, citing audio it obtained. X is working on securing money transmission licenses across the U.S., The Verge reported. The company already has licenses for money transmission or money services in nine states, according to the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System.

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg says he never expected people to be walking around wearing VR headsets — that's what the Ray Ban glasses are for
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Nidhi Pandurangi | Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Zuckerberg said a world full of people walking around in VR headsets is "certainly not the future that I'm hoping we get to." Instead, his goal is for the AR glasses to become a smart phone replacement. "That's certainly not the future that I'm hoping we get to," Zuckerberg told neuroscientist and podcast host Andrew Huberman during an episode of Huberman's show that aired on Monday. In the conversation, Zuckerberg said he viewed Meta's new Quest 3 VR headsets as a successor to people's desktop-based workstations. Last year, one former Meta employee told the Verge's Alex Heath that Zuckerberg's ego is intertwined with the glasses.

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☆ AMD's stock pops after Microsoft tech chief touts chipmaker's AI products
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Shares of AMD rose almost 5% Thursday, a day after Microsoft's technology chief said the chipmaker is bolstering its position in artificial intelligence, where Nvidia dominates. For years, Microsoft has offered some AMD GPUs to its Azure cloud customers, in addition to powering some of its computers and its Xbox consoles with AMD chips. In May, AMD said Microsoft had started offering a cloud networking service to clients, drawing on the chipmaker's Pensando products. Bloomberg reported in May that AMD was working with Microsoft on a custom AI chip, but Scott declined to say if that's actually happening. Microsoft's cloud rivals Amazon and Google have developed homegrown silicon.

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg said Twitter, now X, is less likely to maximize its potential now with Elon Musk behind the wheel
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Meta released Threads in July that would compete with Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter. Mark Zuckerberg and Musk have also sparred with each other online, talking about a cage match. In an interview with The Verge, Zuckerberg questioned the direction Musk was taking X. AdvertisementAdvertisementMark Zuckerberg doesn't appear to have too much faith in Elon Musk's handling of Twitter. So it just didn't seem like they were on the trajectory that would maximize their potential," he told The Verge.

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☆ Microsoft technology chief says supply of Nvidia's AI chips is improving
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"Demand was far exceeding the supply of GPU capacity that the whole ecosystem could produce," Scott told the Verge's Nilay Patel. Microsoft, like Google and other tech companies, has been quickly adding generative AI to its own products and selling the technology's capabilities to clients. Training and deploying the underlying AI models has mainly relied on Nvidia's GPUs, creating scarcity of supply. Nvidia expects to increase supply each quarter through next year, finance chief Colette Kress told analysts on last month's earnings call. Traffic to ChatGPT has declined month over month for three consecutive months, Similarweb said in a blog post.

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☆ Apple customers are starting to receive their new $60 'FineWoven' iPhone cases — and the early reviews are rough
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Apple recently announced new FineWoven iPhone cases to replace its leather ones. CNET's Patrick Holland said the FineWoven case has "visible tradeoffs," like a circular imprint left from MagSafe charging after only a week. On Amazon, the black iPhone 15 Pro Max FineWoven case has a 1.3-star rating with nine reviews as of this writing, and the blue iPhone 15 Pro FineWoven case has a 2.6-star rating from seven reviews. AdvertisementAdvertisement"Taking my FineWoven case and wallet back when I pickup the phone on Friday. The FineWoven cases aren't the only new Apple product to leave users underwhelmed.

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☆ Meta Q2 results top expectations, issues upbeat outlook for Q3
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailMeta Q2 results top expectations, issues upbeat outlook for Q3The Verge's Nilay Patel and Platformer's Casey Newton, join 'TechCheck' to discuss Meta's earnings and how it fairs against its competitors in the social media space.

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☆ Meta's Threads debut solved the chicken-or-egg problem plaguing new social startups
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Last week, Meta launched its latest social media venture, a Twitter alternative called Threads. For social media start-ups, attracting an audience is crucial to scaling a new product — but it can be near impossible to lure loyal users away from other platforms. New Threads accounts can easily migrate their information from Instagram, sharing their account data and username between the platforms. They have this pattern now of either launching or creating spin-off social media networks based on what's most popular at the time, then do it under their brand," Caraballo said. "It just is so dystopian to have one single person basically who oversees the entirety of all social media, at least in the Western world," Caraballo told Insider.

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