FILE PHOTO: Instacart shopper, Loralyn Geggatt makes a delivery to a customer’s home in Falmouth, MA on April 7, 2020. David L. Ryan | Boston Globe | Getty Images Instacart said Monday it will cease the use of artificial intelligence-driven pricing tests on its grocery delivery platform after the practice was scrutinized in a wide-ranging…
Josh Woodward, VP of Google Labs, addresses the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025. Camille Cohen | AFP | Getty Images Josh Woodward may not be a household name in Silicon Valley. But inside Google, everybody knows about him. The 42-year-old Oklahoma native, who started at…
Palo Alto Networks will migrate key internal workloads to Google Cloud as part of a new multibillion-dollar agreement, the companies announced Friday. The companies said the deal is an expansion of their existing strategic partnership and will deepen their engineering collaboration. Palo Alto Networks is now using Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence models to power its…
Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Instacart will pay $60 million to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission that it misled users with false advertising and deployed “unlawful subscription enrollment” practices. The federal agency alleged that Instacart used deceptive tactics in its subscription sign-up and “satisfaction guarantee” advertising that caused…
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI is in discussions with Amazon about a potential investment and an agreement to use its artificial intelligence chips, CNBC confirmed…
Instagram has installed a new privacy setting which will default all new and existing underage accounts to an automatic private mode. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Instagram users will now be able to watch Reels short-form videos on bigger screens. Meta said Tuesday that the company will begin testing its Instagram for TV app in…
Colin Angle, co-founder and chief executive officer of iRobot Corp., speaks during a Prime Air delivery drone reveal event in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Wednesday, June 5, 2019. Joe Buglewicz | Bloomberg | Getty Images Colin Angle, co-founder and former CEO of iRobot, on Monday said the company’s move to declare bankruptcy was “profoundly…
Software company ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy cybersecurity startup Armis, which was last valued at $6.1 billion, Bloomberg reported. The deal, which could reach $7 billion in value, would be ServiceNow’s largest acquisition, the outlet said, citing people familiar with the situation who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. …
The Walt Disney Company’s $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI will serve as “a way in” to artificial intelligence, which will have a significant long-term impact on Disney’s business, Disney CEO Bob Iger told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Thursday. “We want to participate in what Sam is creating, what his team is creating,” Iger said….
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang outside the Capitol, Dec. 3, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia on Wednesday responded to a report that the Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has been using smuggled Blackwell chips to develop its upcoming model. The U.S. has banned the export of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, which are considered the…