Salesforce sought to reassure investors that the AI revolution won’t be the death of it when it reported fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday. Salesforce posted a solid quarter of $10.7 billion in revenue, up 13% year-over-year. It reported revenue of $41.5 billion for the year, up 10% from a year earlier, with both results boosted by … Read more
The revival of “The Muppet Show” has brought Jim Henson’s creations back into the spotlight, and fans are anticipating news of the virtual return of the popular “Muppet*Vision 3D” via Apple Vision Pro. Jim Henson has been responsible for a lot of the world’s most popular entertainment and even Apple has one in its studio. … Read more
As AI-powered search engines change the way businesses are discovered online, Indian startup Gushwork is helping companies acquire customers from platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity – with early traction starting to gain investor backing. The two-year-old startup said Thursday it raised $9 million in a seed round led by Susquehanna International Group (SIG) and … Read more
Anthropic announced Wednesday that it has acquired Vercept, an AI startup with deep roots to some of the biggest names in the Seattle tech scene. The acquisition is the latest following Anthropic’s acquisition in December, when Anthropic acquired the Bun coding agent module to help expand Claude Code. Vercept has built tools for more complex … Read more
AI writing tools work wonders, but AI detectors can flag your content if it leans too much on robo-prose. If you want your AI writing to be undetectable, you have to edit all the content yourself, but adding the human touch takes time. Sometimes there just isn’t room in the schedule, but that’s okay. There’s … Read more
For more than six decades, the Peace Corps has presented itself as an agency focused on helping underserved communities around the world. But a new initiative called “Tech Corps” threatens to destroy the agency’s original mission by hiring de facto Silicon Valley businessmen to promote the biggest names in AI — many of whom have … Read more
macOS 27 is still a few months away, but there are already several rumors about the upcoming software update, as listed below. We expect the first macOS 27 beta to be deployed to developers during WWDC 2026 in June, with the public beta to follow in July. After beta testing, the update should be released … Read more
The proliferation of AI data centers plugging into the national power grid has helped drive up consumer electricity prices, raising the average national price of electricity by more than 6% in the past year. That’s not a good look for incumbents ahead of this fall’s election, and President Donald Trump addressed the challenge in his … Read more
During his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump tried to quell Americans’ concerns about rising electricity costs by claiming he had negotiated a “rate-payer protection commitment” with big tech companies that would allow them to build or pay for new power generation for their data centers. Leaders from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, … Read more
Google is moving further into physical AI by bringing a well-known robotics software platform under its wing. Alphabet-owned Intrinsic, which creates artificial intelligence models and software designed to make industrial robots accessible, is joining Google, the companies announced Wednesday. Intrinsic will remain a separate entity within Google, but will work closely with Google DeepMind and … Read more