https://techxplore.com/rss-feed/business-tech-news/ en-us The latest news on the technology businesses, technology business, technology companies and tech business news. You're browsing a major online marketplace for a warm winter jacket when a sponsored listing catches your eye: a black, fleece-lined jacket, prominently priced at A$18.99 each. It's just what you want, so you click through, ready to grab a bargain. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-baitandswitch-sales-click-online-bargains.html Consumer & Gadgets Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:40:10 EDT news700476782 Elon Musk's SpaceX is becoming a publicly traded company after selling 555.6 million shares in what was the biggest initial public offering in history. But my new research suggests that investors who bought those shares are unlikely to see the explosive growth that past IPOs had. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-spacex-75b-ipo-insiders-elon.html Business Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:00:05 EDT news700476541 Anthropic on Wednesday joined growing calls for the artificial intelligence industry to find ways to cushion people from the technology's disruptions, announcing an initial $200 million investment to research AI's impact on jobs and the economy. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-anthropic-pledges-million-ai-economic.html Business Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:00:05 EDT news700370578 Betting that people will soon grow more comfortable having artificial intelligence agents shop for groceries, plane tickets or diapers on their behalf, payments giant Visa said Wednesday that it has embedded its payment network inside of ChatGPT, empowering the chatbot to independently shop and complete transactions. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-visa-payment-network-chatgpt-ai.html Business Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:23:13 EDT news700370560 Just like snowflakes, no two TikTok For You pages look alike. And that is intentional. The social media site's highly personalized—and black box-like—recommendation algorithm has long been considered its "secret sauce," after all. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-tiktok-tool-swiping-effect-quickly.html Business Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:20:02 EDT news700304762 As concerns grow over global fuel supplies and the cost of flying, new research from the University of Adelaide shows the relationship between jet fuel prices and airfares is not as simple as passengers might think. The study found that different types of jet fuel price shocks have very different effects on Australian domestic airfares, with some shocks leading to higher ticket prices, some having little effect, and others pushing fares in different directions across fare classes. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-jet-fuel-affect-airfares.html Business Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:20:03 EDT news700232400 The EU on Tuesday rejected Apple's blame for the delayed rollout of its AI-enhanced voice assistant, saying it was up to the U.S. giant to make products that follow the rules. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-eu-apple-blame-delayed-siri.html Business Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:20:02 EDT news700229020 European Union regulators on Tuesday ordered Meta Platforms to restore access to WhatsApp for rival AI chatbot makers until an antitrust investigation is complete. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-eu-meta-whatsapp-access-rival.html Business Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:04:00 EDT news700228972 In a recently published article in the Harvard Business Review, UConn management professor Timothy B. Folta and two European colleagues discovered that in hypercompetitive business markets, a less-resourced but more spirited and focused company is likely to fight a rival to the bitter end. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-line-guy.html Business Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:20:01 EDT news700219021 Apple unveiled an artificial intelligence overhaul for the iPhone on Monday, turning to Google for help two years after the company stumbled in its first attempt. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-apple-ai-google.html Consumer & Gadgets Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:04:46 EDT news700149743 Nintendo said Monday that it would pay a fine of 35 million euros ($40 million) to settle a French claim over faulty controllers on its Switch consoles. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-nintendo-mn-euro-french-fine.html Business Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:20:02 EDT news700133751 Apple is expected to unveil new artificial intelligence features at its annual developers conference beginning Monday, which will be the last one featuring CEO Tim Cook before he turns his post over to John Ternus in September. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-apple-unveil-ai-features-conference.html Consumer & Gadgets Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:00:01 EDT news700114568 Video games are having a moment in the United States—but the players are getting older. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-gamers-older-industry-growth.html Business Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:17:42 EDT news700031839 New research has mapped a plausible scenario for how offshore wind could reshape the North Sea by 2050, showing that if all current political commitments were built, around 11% of the basin would fall within wind farm boundaries. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-offshore-potentially-north-sea.html Business Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:40:02 EDT news699795482 Tech giant Meta on Thursday attacked Australia's "grossly unfair" bid to make social media companies pay for news, saying it is vehemently opposed to the draft laws. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-meta-lashes-australia-tech-giants.html Internet Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:00:04 EDT news699766885 If the future of warehouse work belongs to humans and robots working side by side, a key question remains: What is the most effective way for them to collaborate? https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ways-humans-robots-requires-swarm.html Business Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:40:01 EDT news699719221 Meta secured a partial victory Wednesday over the EU's powers to regulate tech giants, as a top court ruled the bloc was wrong to slap tough rules on its Facebook Marketplace platform—but threw out an appeal over Messenger. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-eu-court-meta-partial-tech.html Business Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:00:01 EDT news699688027 Google parent Alphabet announced Monday it plans to raise up to $80 billion in stock to fund a major expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, with Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway committing $10 billion as part of the deal. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-google-parent-alphabet-bn-fuel.html Business Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:40:01 EDT news699592747 For years, the video game industry has operated on a simple assumption: the fairest match is the best match. New research suggests that this assumption may be costing gaming platforms millions of player-hours. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-smarter-matchmaking-equal-skill-millions.html Business Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:00:10 EDT news699550021 Recurring geopolitical tensions and energy import limitations have raised energy prices across the European Union (EU), exposing a gap in energy supplies and vulnerabilities in energy security. With energy prices showing no signs of returning to pre-2020 levels, a critical re-evaluation of the EU's energy transition strategies is imperative. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-faster-renewable-shift-eu-billions.html Business Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:00:02 EDT news699544085 The New York Times publisher on Monday slammed artificial intelligence companies for "brazen theft of intellectual property," warning they threaten the future of journalism during a speech at the World News Media Congress in the French city of Marseille. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-york-publisher-slams-ai-companies.html Business Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:40:01 EDT news699541865 AI giant Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, announced Monday that it had filed confidentially for an initial public offering (IPO), as Silicon Valley AI companies look to raise the enormous sums needed to fuel the sector's rapid expansion. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ai-giant-anthropic-confidentially-ipo.html Business Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:20:08 EDT news699541737 Rising fuel prices triggered by the Middle East war are driving a sharp increase in carpooling, with a ride-sharing platform reporting a surge in new users seeking cheaper ways to travel. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-energy-crunch-fuels-car-pool.html Business Sun, 31 May 2026 07:30:01 EDT news699430830 The transition to renewable energy is not just about installing more solar panels and wind turbines. Without smarter market rules, the energy transition could become unnecessarily expensive and deepen inequality. That is the conclusion of new research by Dongchen He, who examined how electricity markets and subsidy policies should adapt as renewable energy becomes dominant. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-outdated-power-renewable-energy-dissertation.html Business Fri, 29 May 2026 18:20:01 EDT news699268910 American tech giant IBM and its IT services subsidiary Red Hat said Thursday that they would deploy billions of dollars and thousands of staff to secure open source software against new cybersecurity threats. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-ibm-boost-source-bn.html Business Thu, 28 May 2026 10:40:02 EDT news699181060 Meta on Wednesday launched paid subscription plans for its flagship apps, marking a major push by the tech giant to diversify beyond its longtime reliance on advertising revenue. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-meta-paid-subscriptions-instagram-facebook.html Internet Thu, 28 May 2026 04:56:30 EDT news699162966 For decades, the idea that artificial intelligence can beat humans at number-crunching tasks like high-frequency trading has been widely accepted. But strategic foresight—the ability to predict the success of high-stakes, uncertain business ventures—has long been held as a uniquely human superpower. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-ai-human-tournament-tech-ventures.html Business Tue, 26 May 2026 19:20:01 EDT news699017683 With the release of his encyclical letter Magnifica Humanitas on May 25, 2026, Pope Leo XIV has signaled that he wants the church to respond to artificial intelligence much as a predecessor, Pope Leo XIII, responded to upheavals during the Industrial Revolution over a century ago. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-pope-leo-xiv-ai-industrial.html Business Tue, 26 May 2026 13:20:06 EDT news699020041 Over the past decade, the ability of artificial intelligence to speed up complex processes has made it a key tool in engineering research. Many people associate AI with cloud computing, but its growth requires expanding infrastructure, such as data centers. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-ai-footprint-safety-centers.html Business Tue, 26 May 2026 12:20:03 EDT news699016741 Creating new cryptocurrency requires large amounts of computing power, which is used to solve cryptographic puzzles in what is known as proof-of-work mining. When two computers attempt to solve the same puzzle, the first to find the solution creates a new block and claims the right to create a predetermined amount of new coins, while the losers get nothing. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-quantifying-forks-bitcoin-energy.html Business Tue, 26 May 2026 09:20:04 EDT news699005761