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AI is making Meta’s apps basically unusable
Meta has flooded its social media platforms with artificial intelligence. Soon enough, Meta AI will be everywhere : In your Facebook news feed, Instagram search bar, and even your conversations w...
Apple’s Swift Student Challenge honors student coders for concept apps
Software engineers will soon descend on Cupertino to hear about potential updates to Apple’s operating systems and developer tools, get advice from company experts, and mingle with others worki...
Vision Pro sales are really tanking, new supply chain data shows
Earlier this month I started looking into whether anyone was buying the Apple Vision Pro after I noticed that social media discourse about Apple’s spatial computer seemed to have all but disap...
Why IBM’s dazzling Watson supercomputer was a lousy tutor
In the annals of artificial intelligence, Feb. 16, 2011, was a watershed moment. That day, IBM’s Watson supercomputer finished off a three-game shellacking of Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings...
Ring customers can expect a payment from the FTC, thanks to a video privacy settlement
The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring , which was charged with failing to protect private video fo...
Alphabet and Microsoft earnings show AI is still Wall Street gold
After Meta’s stock meltdown late Wednesday afternoon and Thursday, the tech sector is roaring back in after-hours trading on the strength of strong earnings reports from Alphabet, Microsoft, a...
The FCC votes to reinstate net neutrality rules, reversing Trump
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-2 on Thursday to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and reassume regulatory oversight of broadband internet rescinded under former ...
Algorithms not for sale: ByteDance may shutdown TikTok in the U.S. if legal options fail
TikTok owner ByteDance would prefer shutting down its loss-making app rather than sell it if the Chinese company exhausts all legal options to fight legislation to ban the platform from app sto...
The EU just showed us another way of reining in TikTok
You probably saw the news that TikTok’s time could be up in the U.S., with a nine-month countdown triggered by the signature of a bill that would require TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to...
Micron’s computer chip factories (and jobs) are coming. Voters are tired of waiting
President Joe Biden has a great economic story to tell voters a decade from now, less so in 2024. On Thursday, the Democratic president will head to upstate New York to celebrate Micron Technol...
ByteDance promised to sue if the U.S. bans TikTok. Legal experts weigh in on what it means for users
Legislation forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell the video-sharing platform or face a ban in the U.S. received President Joe Biden’s official signoff Wednesday. But the newly minted law ...
DoNotPay pays off for investors and staff
DoNotPay is paying investors. The company offers a paid subscription for AI and other software tools to help consumers negotiate their cable bills, contest parking tickets, and otherwise min...
Rubrik IPO: Stock price will be closely watched today as Microsoft-backed cybersecurity firm lists on NYSE
While not as high-profile as the Reddit IPO , another tech company is going public today, and it’s got a powerful backer. Cybersecurity firm Rubrik, Inc. will hold its initial public offering i...
Why we may be headed for a generative AI winter
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here . THE GENERA...
7 great Android time-savers that are free with Google Play Pass
Thanks to being woefully unorganized, I just found out I’m a Google Play Pass subscriber. Apparently I signed up for the trial years ago and promptly forgot about it. What’s more, I discov...
TikTok ban: How stocks for social media rivals Meta and Snap—and partner Oracle—fared on the news
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed the TikTok ban into law, finally giving owner ByteDance its Choose Your Own American Adventure: It must either sell the immensely popular video-sharing pl...
Meta stock plunges 12% on lukewarm earnings, despite strong advertising numbers
Meta announced its first-quarter earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday. The company’s stock plunged 12% in after-hours trading, due to the company’s increased expenses and mediocre re...
Techno-optimism is a powerful tool for change. Is it enough?
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen penned a 5,000-word manifesto in 2023 that gave a full-throated call for unrestricted technological progress to boost markets, broaden energy pr...
Generative AI meets scams and spam: Deciding what’s real on social media gets trickier
If you’ve spent time on Facebook over the past six months, you may have noticed photorealistic images that are too good to be true: children holding paintings that look like the work of profes...
Lyft CEO David Risher has a turnaround plan for the company—and Minneapolis’s new wage minimums are not part of it
When Lyft CEO David Risher took the helm of the rideshare company from cofounders Logan Green and John Zimmer a year ago, his mandate was clear: create a sustainable business by getting the pere...