For a company focused on hardware, the ability of Dell Technologies Inc. to leverage and enable emerging artificial intelligence technologies such as ChatGPT may seem like a stretch — but not to founder and Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell. “There is a misunderstanding that AI is just in ChatGPT,” Dell (pictured, right) said in an ...

Less than a week after Google LLC stumbled when it introduced its experimental artificial intelligence chatbot Bard, two Google luminaries today explained why they think AI chatbots — including OpenAI LLC’s wildly popular ChatGPT — aren’t really ready for prime time. Vint Cerf, Google’s chief internet evangelist, and John Hennessy (pictured), chairman of Google parent Alphabet ...

The sky is no longer the limit for cloud computing giants, as the slowing economy strikes at one of tech’s biggest growth stories of the past decade. Two of the top cloud providers, Amazon Web Services Inc. and Google LLC, today revealed revenues in their cloud units, which have boosted their growth and profits for ...

Tech’s layoffs and hiring freezes are deepening, as Amazon.com Inc. today announced a pause in new hires, Lyft Inc. and Stripe Inc. said they are laying off hundreds of employees amid the worsening economy, and even Apple Inc. was reportedly holding off on new hires outside research and development roles. Amazon, which had previously announced ...

With online advertising hitting a slow patch along with the overall economy and inflation taking its toll, even Alphabet Inc. didn’t escape the downdraft today as it reported its fifth straight quarter of slowing revenue growth. The parent of ad and cloud giant Google LLC reported that its profit for the third quarter ended Sept. ...

Amazon. com Inc. today disclosed in a securities filing that it has received a request for more information from the Federal Trade Commission on its planned $3.9 billion acquisition of 1Life Healthcare Inc., which runs primary-care clinics under the name One Medical. Publicly held 1Life disclosed the investigation in a securities filing first reported by the ...

Amazon.com Inc. today said it will shut down its Amazon Care telehealth service by the end of the year, casting some doubt on its aggressive plans to become a force in health services. According to an internal memo first reported by Geekwire, the retail and cloud computing giant determined that Amazon Care failed to become ...

As expected, Broadcom Inc. today said it will acquire computer virtualization and cloud services giant VMware Inc. in a $61 billion deal that would be one of the largest technology mergers ever. Broadcom will pay $138.23 per share for VMware in the cash-and-stock deal, more than 40% above VMware’s stock price before reports of the deal. ...

Yet another strong showing in cloud computing failed to prevent Amazon.com Inc. from reporting a surprise loss, and a disappointing forecast for the next quarter sent its shares down hard in extended trading today. The retail and cloud giant reported its first-quarter net loss of $3.8 billion, or $7.56 a share, reversing an $8.1 billion ...

It couldn’t get much worse for Meta Platforms Inc. than when it lost $230 billion in market value in February after reporting its first-ever drop in daily users, and today the Facebook parent actually managed to show surprising improvement, sending its stock soaring in late trading. Meta, which rebranded itself in October in the hope ...