While major tech giants like Apple and Amazon face headwinds from tariffs and waning consumer sentiment, advertising-focused tech businesses remain resilient amid trade wars and economic uncertainty, bucking the downward trend impacting consumer-facing industries.
Apple is collaborating with Anthropic to develop an AI coding assistant integrated into Xcode, leveraging Anthropic's Claude Sonnet model to enable developers to write, edit, and test code through a chat interface, initially for internal use with potential future public release.
Alibaba's open-source Qwen3 AI models, rivaling US capabilities, ignite an AI arms race, prompting Silicon Valley's swift xAI Grok 3.5 beta release, underscoring the need for agile responses in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
BreezoMeter leverages Google Cloud's scalable and sustainable infrastructure to analyze vast environmental data, delivering precise, hyperlocal insights on air pollution, pollen, wildfires, and weather for over 100 countries, processing 1.8 TB of data and calculating 10 billion pollutant concentrations hourly.
Llama API empowers businesses to leverage cutting-edge Llama AI models effortlessly, offering lightweight SDKs and compatibility endpoints, while prioritizing data privacy and security by ensuring API inputs and outputs do not train Meta's models.
Meta faces a pivotal copyright lawsuit questioning whether its AI tools, capable of generating book-like content, undermine authors' livelihoods, sparking a debate on protecting creators versus stifling AI innovation in the rapidly evolving field.
North Korea has been covertly deploying AI-powered IT workers posing as legitimate candidates to infiltrate Western firms, stealing jobs and sensitive data through sophisticated deception tactics that are challenging companies' defenses.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is advocating for revisions to AI chip export rules, aiming to accelerate global diffusion of US AI technology while maintaining dominance, as China rapidly closes the gap in AI capabilities despite Nvidia's planned $500B US investment.
Toyota and Waymo, a leader in self-driving technology, are teaming up to accelerate the development and deployment of autonomous driving capabilities for personally owned vehicles, combining their strengths to create a new platform that enhances next-generation cars with Waymo's cutting-edge autonomous tech.
Meta soared with 16% revenue growth to $42.3 billion in Q1 2025, fueled by its expanding user base reaching 3.43 billion daily active people and the success of its AI initiatives, including AI glasses and Meta AI with nearly 1 billion monthly active users.