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Tech Giants Deliver AI-Powered Earnings Growth

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Quarterly earnings at tech giants Meta and Microsoft surged, indicating that multi-billion dollar AI investments are starting to pay off.

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Amazon Sharpens its Senses with Personalized Alexa AI Patent

The tech adds to its ongoing efforts to make Alexa more intuitive and contextual.

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Google May Watch Users Closely with Context-Aware Digital Assistants

Google filing for a context-driven digital assistant raises the question of privacy versus usefulness in consumer tech.

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Apple Stumbles Out of the Gate as Analysts Fret iPhone Sales

Barclays analysts fear that the company’s iPhone 15 and its upcoming sequel are not going to spark new revenue growth.

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DOJ Pressures Google to Adopt ‘Sharing is Caring’ Data Ethos

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To Google, user search data is the all-important secret sauce that enables it to innovate and outperform rivals.

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Patent Drop Wrapped: A Year in Review

What a year in patents from Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and more taught us.

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2023: The Year in Tech

2023 saw AI live rent-free in all of our heads, plus in an unexpected twist Mark Zuckerberg became the adult in the room.

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Apple Continues Health Patents Throughout Watch Legal Battle

Apple continues to build its “war chest” of defensive patents as the Masimo battle pulls it’s two newest watch from shelves.

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Apple Leads Manufacturing Pivot to India

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Apple shifting production to India is just the latest sign that the world’s most populous nation may be a winner in global trade reordering.

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IBM Joins Tech Giants Pouring Billions into US Production

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IBM is booting up its domestic production, setting aside $150 billion to make computers in the US over the next five years.

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