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Big changes are coming to AI in 2025: Microsoft

Microsoft says AI will change in some big ways in 2025.

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Android's latest round of AI features improve accessibility, file sharing and more

Google has announced a swath of new AI features for the entire Android ecosystem, with special attention for Pixel users.

Explainer-What OPEC+ oil output cuts are currently in place?

Those include three tranches: 1. million bpd by all OPEC+ members - extended on Dec. 5 by one year until the end of 2026 from the end of 2025. million bpd of voluntary cuts by eight members (Algeria, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Oman, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) - extended on Dec. 5 by one year until the end of 2026 from the end of 2025.

Trump just gave a new signal he isn't going to let up on Big Tech

President-elect Donald Trump is making it clear he doesn't intend to ease up on the nation's technology giants once he is back in the Oval Office.

AMD CEO Lisa Su Is Ready for the AI Spotlight

(Bloomberg) -- Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Chief Executive Officer Lisa Su has spent most of her decade in the top job at the chipmaker keeping a tight rein on expectations. Most Read from BloombergAs Wars Rage, Cities Face a Dark New Era of Urban DestructionKansas City Looks Back on its Long, Costly Ride With MicrotransitRiyadh Metro Partially Opens in Bid to Ease City’s Traffic JamsAvoiding hype and broad pronouncements has played a big part in reestablishing the creditability of a company tha

Twos is a to-do app that uses AI to suggest actions to complete your tasks

The overarching promise of companies working on AI-powered productivity tools is to build solutions that would do a task for you. A to-do list app called Twos is approaching this problem differently. For instance, if you write “Buy paper napkins,” you will get suggestions for links to Amazon, Walmart, and eBay with paper napkins as the search terms.

After selling his last startup to IBM, this founder now wants to bring 'agentic memory' to enterprise data

It's against such a backdrop that fledgling AI startup, Across AI, is coming out of stealth to develop a "dynamic memory system" for complex enterprise workflows. Across AI targets the likes of chief revenue officers and sales teams with a platform that connects with all their internal and external enterprise data sources. It then creates a shared "agentic memory" that can be used to identify and qualify fresh sales opportunities, spot risks, and suggest questions sales teams should be asking their customers.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: DOGE has a real shot at cutting costs, and new technologies could help

Elon Musk has a good shot at cleaning up government waste by way of DOGE, explains Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff.

Meta buys credits from four big US solar projects

The agreement is the latest in a string of announcements Meta has made this year aimed at meeting the energy needs of its power-hungry data centers without harming the climate. In its latest move, Meta signed four contracts with Chicago-based energy project developer Invenergy for 760 megawatts of solar electricity. The projects will connect to the power grid between 2024 and 2027 and will be located in Ohio, Texas, New Mexico and Arkansas, Meta and Invenergy said in a joint statement.

US FDA cited animal lab at Musk’s Neuralink for ‘objectionable conditions’

An animal testing laboratory at Elon Musk's Neuralink brain technology company was found to have "objectionable conditions or practices" by the Food and Drug Administration, which cited the company and urged it to address the problems. FDA inspectors identified the issues at Neuralink's animal testing facilities in California in June 2023, several weeks after the agency had given the company the green light for a small study of its brain implant in humans, according to the letter to Congress dated Nov. 29. The agency was responding to concerns raised by Earl Blumenauer, a House Democrat from Oregon who has focused on animal welfare.

OPEC+ delays oil output hike until April, extends cuts into 2026

LONDON/MOSCOW/DUBAI (Reuters) -OPEC+ on Thursday pushed back the start of oil output rises by three months until April and extended the full unwinding of cuts by a year until the end of 2026 due to weak demand and booming production outside the group. OPEC+, which pumps about half the world's oil, had been planning to start unwinding cuts from October 2024 but a slowdown in global demand and rising output elsewhere forced it to postpone the plans on several occasions. OPEC+ groups the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies such as Russia.