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Billionaires Buffett, Gates and Zuckerberg Are All Middle Children
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Billionaires Buffett, Gates and Zuckerberg Are All Middle Children

You might already know one significant fact about Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg: They all belong to the $100 billion club, which boasts just 14 members. Image Credit: Monica Schipper | Getty Images. Warren Buffett, left; Bill Gates, right. Buffett, the 94-year-old chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, has a net worth of...

Proto Hologram Boxes Project 3D Images, Like 'The Jetsons'
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Proto Hologram Boxes Project 3D Images, Like ‘The Jetsons’

The Jetsons, a popular TV show from the 1960s, foreshadowed the rise of AI chatbots, video calls, robotic vacuum cleaners — and now holograms. U.S. startup Proto is making waves as the first platform to allow for communication through holograms. The company’s products are physical boxes that display 3D images from pre-recorded videos, live feeds,...

Mark Zuckerberg Reveals Meta's Orion Hologram Smart Glasses
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Mark Zuckerberg Reveals Meta’s Orion Hologram Smart Glasses

Imagine putting on a pair of glasses and a bracelet that tracks your thoughts by sensing electrical impulses from your skin. Instantly, your field of vision overlaps with the digital world. You see holograms (3D digital avatars of real people), can project your own hologram, and even answer calls and play games while still being...

How Li-Chen Miller Became the Face of Ray-Ban Meta Glasses
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How Li-Chen Miller Became the Face of Ray-Ban Meta Glasses

The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses Meta introduced last year are catching on with consumers — Meta sold more pairs of the new glasses in just a couple of months than the older 2021 Ray-Ban (then called “Stories”) in two full years. Part of the glasses’ success could be attributed to taking criticism from the competition...

Mark Zuckerberg Says Meta Censored Facebook, Instagram Posts
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Mark Zuckerberg Says Meta Censored Facebook, Instagram Posts

Mark Zuckerberg submitted a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Monday stating that in 2021, Meta censored certain Covid-19 content on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other platforms it owns. The letter was in response to the committee’s ongoing investigation of how the federal government plays into content moderation choices made by...

How Meta Is Using AI to Drive Immediate Business Gains
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How Meta Is Using AI to Drive Immediate Business Gains

Although Meta is pursuing the same AI technology gains as its rivals, analysts say it’s doing a better job explaining why AI matters to its bottom line — with Meta’s AI-driven growth in revenue boosting investor confidence and driving its stock up. Meta has raced ahead of Big Tech peers like Google parent Alphabet, Apple...

Meta Could Pay Celebrities Millions to AI Clone Their Voices
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Meta Could Pay Celebrities Millions to AI Clone Their Voices

How much would Meta have to pay you to clone your voice for AI? Meta is offering to pay celebrities millions in exchange for the right to capture their voices and use them for AI, according to separate reports from Bloomberg and The New York Times last week. Judi Dench, Awkwafina, and Keegan-Michael Key have...

Big Tech giants Amazon and Apple slow down as economy slows: Musketeer Capital Partners
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Tech stocks see steep three-week slump, led by Amazon, Intel

Signage outside the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on March 23, 2023. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images With quarterly earnings from tech’s mega-cap companies largely in the rearview mirror, one thing is clear: Wall Street is nervous. The Nasdaq Composite slumped 3.4% this week, bringing its three-week slide to 8.8%. That’s the worst...

Watch CNBC's full Apple earnings panel with Stephanie Link, Victoria Greene, and Scott Kessler
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Apple spending more on AI, but remains behind its Silicon Valley peers

Apple CEO Tim Cook opens WWDC 2024 in Cupertino, California, on June 10, 2024. Source: Apple The topic of greatest interest to analysts on Apple’s quarterly earnings call on Thursday was a product that’s not even available to the general public yet. Apple Intelligence, the company’s forthcoming artificial intelligence system, could spur a fresh cycle...

Dept of Commerce Urges White House to Support Open AI Models
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Dept of Commerce Urges White House to Support Open AI Models

Over the past few months, private sector CEOs like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and xAI’s Elon Musk have called for open-source AI models that allow everyone to see the code the AI is based on, and build on top of it for free. Now the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is...