Tech industry

Tech industry

Intel Corp. shares plunged about 17% after Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan gave a lackluster forecast and warned that the chipmaker was struggling with manufacturing problems. First-quarter projections for revenue and earnings both fell well short of Wall Street estimates. And a conference call with analysts, where Tan said it would take time and resolve to turn around the company, sent the shares down further.

TikTok has finalized the deal for its US entity, with its parent company ByteDance selling majority of its stake to a group of non-Chinese investors. The deal was closed just before the Trump Administration's latest deadline, banning the app in the US unless it was divested from ByteDance, which will only retain 20 percent of the new entity. TikTok's investors will own 80 percent, with Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX, an Emirati-state owned investment firm, taking 15 percent each.

When I tell fellow tech executives that every employee at sunday, from our engineers to our finance team, must complete a restaurant shift before they can fully onboard, I usually get confused looks. "You mean like, shadow someone?" they ask. No. I mean they tie on an apron, take orders, run food, and yes, deal with the 15-minute wait for the check that our product was literally built to eliminate.

The TikTok divestment deal is done, and the company's CEO is jubilant. On Thursday, TikTok's top boss, Shou Chew, sent a message to US staffers, toasting the "great news" and thanking them for their "resilience." He also announced that "more than 200 million Americans now come to TikTok to be entertained, learn, and grow their business with a broader global community." Chew has good reason to take a victory lap.

When going through change, people need time to understand in their own way what exactly is happening and how it will affect them personally. Technical changes especially can bring about uncertainty for many people. Which means: It makes sense that people can become extremely concerned when we tell them that their ways of working are about to change, and they will need to build them up again from scratch.

If we were a top executive at X-formerly-Twitter, a social media site used by hundreds of millions of people which is known for its incredible levels of toxicity and ruthless trolling, we'd probably avoid sharing too many details from our personal lives on there - but that's just us. Anyway, on Wednesday, X's head of product Nikita Bier shared some of the grueling tribulations inflicted on him by an uncooperative chunk of chicken, earning him instant ridicule.

Epic sued Google over five years ago in August 2020, and in December 2023 a jury unanimously handed it the win. An appeals court upheld that verdict, and the US Supreme Court didn't step in to save Google from the immediate consequences. Judge Donato ordered Google to crack open Android in the United States, forcing Google to eventually host rival app stores inside its own store, among many other punishments.

Addressing the systemic risks associated with traditional leveraged trading, industry advisor Daniel Wang stated: "The market is undergoing a fundamental shift. Platforms like DLMining are building a new generation of digital infrastructure by combining blockchain technology with sustainable computing, enabling investors to avoid short-term volatility risks and participate in long-term value accumulation." The DLMining platform restructures investment logic through three core mechanisms: Automated execution via smart contracts, eliminating risks of human intervention Green computing infrastructure ensuring operational sustainability

Spokesperson Renée Francis told SFGATE about 10% of the layoffs will hit San Francisco workers. The AutoCAD-maker's layoff follows a 1,350-worker cut last February and is similarly meant to overhaul the company's go-to-market organization, which includes sales and marketing. CEO Andrew Anagnost, in his letter, called this layoff the "final phase of that journey" and promised that the drastic cuts wouldn't continue.

Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) announced Wednesday that it is turning Threads into a much bigger business as the app matures into a fast-growing conversation hub. At the same time, the company's new AI lab starts producing models meant to power more consumer products and ad tools. Two years after launch, Threads has grown into a distinct community-driven platform with its own voices and niches, and it now reaches more than 400 million monthly active users, the company said in its blog.

Vertiv has announced new configurations of its MegaMod HDX solution, a prefabricated power and liquid cooling infrastructure designed for environments with very high power densities. The solution is intended for applications such as artificial intelligence and high-performance computing and is available in North America and the EMEA region. According to Vertiv, the new variants respond to the rapidly growing demand for computing power and associated cooling capacity in data centers.

The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it will appeal the November ruling in favor of Meta in its antitrust case against the social media giant. The FTC said it continues to allege that, for more than a decade, Meta Platforms Inc. has "illegally maintained a monopoly" in social networking through anticompetitive conduct "by buying the significant competitive threats it identified in Instagram and WhatsApp."

When OpenAI launched its ChatGPT Search feature in late 2024 and its browser, ChatGPT Atlas, in October 2025, it kicked off a race to capture online behavioral data to power advertising. It's part of a yearslong turnabout by OpenAI, whose CEO Sam Altman once called the combination of ads and AI "unsettling" and now promises that ads can be deployed in AI apps.

Anybody who's regularly driven in winter conditions knows the importance of keeping windshield washer fluid topped up. Keeping the salty grime stuck to your windshield and rear window to a minimum is crucial for visibility, especially in inclement weather. In the case of an autonomously operating vehicle, ensuring visibility for the vehicle's sensors could similarly be a matter of life and death. That's particularly true for Tesla's Cybercab ride-hailing vehicles, which rely entirely on camera feeds.

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YouTubers have been increasingly frustrated with Google's management of the platform, with disinformation welcomed back and an aggressive push for more AI (except where Google doesn't like it). So it's no surprise that creators have been up in arms over the suspicious removal of YouTube's advanced SRV3 caption format. You don't have to worry too much just yet-Google says this is only temporary, and it's working on a fix for the underlying bug.

As explained by Meta: AI-powered translations for Reels are starting to roll out in more languages, including Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, and Kannada, on Instagram. These new additions build on our existing language support for English, Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish. The addition of more of the languages spoken in India is significant, because India is now the biggest single market for both Facebook and Instagram usage, beating out the U.S. by a significant margin.

OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Go to make its AI model accessible to users on a budget. It was initially released in India last August, however now it is available globally. In the US, ChatGPT Go is priced at $8 per month, while ChatGPT Plus and Pro cost $20 and $200 per month, respectively. Alongside the global launch, the tech giant announced that it will begin testing ads in the US in the coming weeks.