New York’s Attorney General is investigating Instacart over its algorithmic pricing practices. The probe follows a December study that found the company showed different shoppers different prices for the same items.
AI infrastructure company Nscale is aiming to raise a massive $2 billion in a pre-Series C round. This comes just days after closing its Series B funding, which was led by industrial investment giant Aker ASA.
A new image-editing feature on xAI’s Grok chatbot has been used to create nonconsensual sexualized imagery, including of minors. The scandal has triggered investigations worldwide and exposed deep internal tensions over the platform’s lax safety guardrails.
Apple is forecasting a record-breaking Q1 2026, with earnings details set for release on January 29th. The call, at 5 p.m. ET, comes after a quarter packed with new hardware and bullish analyst upgrades.
Major U.S. tech giants like Google and Meta won’t face heavy-handed new telecom rules under Europe’s upcoming Digital Networks Act, according to a Reuters exclusive. Instead, they’ll be invited into a voluntary “best practices” framework. The draft rules aim to harmonize spectrum licensing and could
In a move to bolster its data center infrastructure offerings, Concentric LLC has acquired power and cooling specialist Critical Components. This follows Concentric’s own acquisition by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in 2023.
Snowflake is making its largest acquisition ever, agreeing to buy observability platform Observe for around $1 billion. The deal, announced January 8th, aims to integrate monitoring tools directly into Snowflake’s data cloud as AI workloads explode.
Microsoft is putting buy buttons directly inside its Copilot AI chatbot. The feature, rolling out now in the US, lets you purchase items from select retailers without ever visiting their websites. It’s the latest move in the race to turn AI assistants into shopping agents.
Chipmaker Qualcomm and Google are deepening their collaboration to build smarter, software-defined vehicles. The partnership aims to fuse Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Digital Chassis with Google’s Android Automotive OS and Gemini AI to create a unified development platform. This move is set to accelerate h
A long-running cyber-espionage campaign has been targeting telecommunications providers in South Asia since at least 2022. The group, linked to China, is now using compromised systems to help other hacking operations.
