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Corporate Chatbots Gone Wild

By Kevin McLaughlin and Aaron Holmes · Dec 16, 2025 10:46am PST
Businesses such as IBM and Salesforce have long used chatbots to greet their website visitors and offer them assistance with getting more information about their products. In recent years, generative AI has livened up these chatbots so they are no longer confined to a small set of canned responses. But some technology providers are having... Businesses such as IBM and Salesforce have long used chatbots to greet their website visitors and...
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Inside Apple’s iPhone Road Map, From Foldable Screens to Curved Glass Cases

By Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu · Dec 16, 2025 8:00am PST
The iPhone family is growing again. Over the next two years, Apple is planning a major expansion of its smartphone product line that could see it selling at least seven new models of its flagship device by fall 2027, up from five iPhone models today, according to multiple people working directly on the products at both Apple and its suppliers. ... The iPhone family is growing again. Over the next two years, Apple is planning a major expansion...
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ServiceNow Sell-Off Highlights Jittery Market

By Martin Peers · Dec 15, 2025 5:00pm PST
Talk about a jittery market. Shares of ServiceNow dropped 11.5% on Monday after a weekend report that the enterprise software firm was in “advanced talks” to buy cybersecurity firm Armis for $7 billion. The stock sell-off wiped $21 billion off ServiceNow’s market capitalization—reducing it to $159 billion—which seems something of an... Talk about a jittery market. Shares of ServiceNow dropped 11.5% on Monday after a weekend report...
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Google’s Cloud Partner for Its AI Chips Is in Talks to Raise $700 Million

By Anissa Gardizy, Cory Weinberg and Miles Kruppa · Dec 4, 2025 10:29am PST
Fluidstack, a cloud provider aiding Google’s AI chip push, is in talks to raise more than $700 million in new financing, according to two people with knowledge of the deal. A one-year-old investment fund started by ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner is in talks to lead the financing, one of the people said. Aschenbrenner’s fund,... Fluidstack, a cloud provider aiding Google’s AI chip push, is in talks to raise more than $700...
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In a Reversal, AWS Makes it Easier For AI Customers to Use Rival Clouds

By Kevin McLaughlin and Aaron Holmes · Dec 2, 2025 10:33am PST
Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud are arch-rivals in the cloud computing market, so it was surprising to hear them announce Monday that they’re working to make it easier for their joint customers to move data and develop applications that run on both clouds. Tech companies are constantly issuing announcements about working together, but... Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud are arch-rivals in the cloud computing market, so it was...