20/11/2024

Business

Google's Chrome to fetch up to $20 billion if judge orders sale

Alphabet Inc.'s Chrome browser could go for as much as $20 billion if a judge agrees to a Justice Department proposal to sell the business, in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the world's biggest tech companies.

Machine learning & AI

The cognitive research behind AI's rise

Federal funding for cognitive research in the late 1970s and early 1980s unexpectedly led to significant advancements in artificial intelligence. This research transformed our understanding of human cognition through computational ...

Software

GM opened a lab to prevent software bugs in new vehicles

General Motors Co. has developed a software-testing lab inside its Global Technical Center that it's replicating elsewhere, including in GM's Silicon Valley office, to prevent bugs from entering new vehicles and affecting ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

Japan ramps up tech ambitions with $65 bn for AI, chips

Japan is readying a $65-billion push in microchips and artificial intelligence aimed at reclaiming its status as a global tech leader and meeting the urgent challenges of its aging, shrinking population.

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