Big Tech companies, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and ServiceNow, have warned employees on visas to avoid leaving the country amid uncertainty about changing immigration policy and procedures. Following an attack on National Guard members in Washington, the Trump administration expanded travel bans earlier this month, and beefed up vetting and data collection for visa applicants….
Alexandr Wang—who became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at 24—is now, at 28, running one of the most ambitious AI efforts in Silicon Valley. In his first 60 days at Meta, he built a 100-person lab he described to TBPN hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays as “smaller and more talent dense than any of…
Almost exactly a month after the debut of Gemini 3 Pro in November, Google has begun rolling out the more efficient Flash version of its latest AI model. According to the company, the new system offers similar “pro-grade” reasoning performance as its flagship model at a fraction of the cost, making it ideal for everyday…
A future filled with robots that can reason is fast approaching—and it starts with your car, Qualcomm’s executive vice president says. The U.S. semiconductor giant best known for designing the mobile processors that power most of the world’s smartphones recently announced it would take on Nvidia and AMD in making AI chips. As Qualcomm expands…
Chromebooks have quietly become some of the most useful laptops for everyday tasks. They boot fast, stay secure with automatic updates and often cost far less than traditional Windows or Mac machines. Modern Chromebooks also look and feel better than ever, with brighter screens, stronger processors and designs that range from simple clamshells to flexible…
Investing in Big Tech companies used to be simple and straightforward. You could simply scoop up a basket of the five Internet giants—Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Google’s parent firm Alphabet—and count on them to outperform the market. Their share price didn’t move strictly in tandem, but you could expect a close sector-wide correlation. Now,…
Welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…President Trump takes aim at state AI regulations with a new executive order…OpenAI unveils a new image generator to catch up with Google’s Nano Banana….Google DeepMind trains a more capable agent for virtual worlds…and an AI safety report card doesn’t provide much reassurance. Hello. 2025 was supposed to…
Google’s at it again, once more insisting that AI is something people need or want more of in their lives. The latest move comes from YouTube Gaming, which announced an open beta for a project called Playables Builder. This allows select YouTube Creators to use a “prototype web app built using Gemini 3” to make…
Elon Musk just woke up $168 billion richer. Even as the wealthiest man in the world, he is still setting new records and raising the bar for what ultra-wealthy looks like. The serial CEO’s net worth shot up to $638 billion on Monday, making him the first person estimated to be worth more than $600…
Google will stop sending out dark web reports starting early next year, as it shuts down the free tool that can tell you if your personal information has appeared on the seedy underbelly of the internet. The tool used to be exclusively available to Google One subscribers until the company opened it up to everyone…