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In the earnings season that is now wrapping up, technology companies delivered a clear message regarding artificial intelligence (AI) spending. The five hyperscalers — Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms, and Oracle — all either reaffirmed or boosted their capital expenditure plans for the year, pushing their combined planned outlay north of $700 billion.

At a recent Deloitte event, “The AI Bottom Line,” Ilan Birnfeld, chairman and CEO of Deloitte Israel, made an observation that stayed with me. “Artificial intelligence (AI),” he argued, “will not change us as human beings. But it will completely change our companies.”

This morning, Walmart announced it will begin accepting tap-to-pay payments from credit cards, Google Pay, Apple Pay, and other NFC systems. Meanwhile, Walmart’s QR code payment system is the last major holdout from the tap-to-pay revolution that has swept across the US over the past several years. At this point, about 85% of retailers in…

Google is expanding Android 17’s per-app memory limits to more devices, giving the operating system more control over how apps use RAM. The idea is simple: to prevent a single memory-hungry app from slowing down the entire smartphone.

The DoJ said the app has made significant strides in privacy protections since the 2024 suit.

iPhone 18 Pro will be unveiled next month, and many iPhone users might be asking: what’s going to be truly different this year? Here are some key ways Apple plans to differentiate iPhone 18 Pro from prior models, per the latest rumors.

Google has a new way to make sure you see exactly what you want in your Discover feed.

Cracking those complex coding tasks could soon be a lot easier thanks to a new release from Salesforce and Slack.

The U.S. financial services industry is projected to have a tech budget of $495 billion by 2026. Recent tracking of B2B purchases indicates an acceleration in technology adoption in areas such as security and AI foundations. The financial sector is expected to outspend most other U.S. industries on technology.

Variety reports that Apple is working on a “Made With AI” tag to use in its Apple Music service. The publication says that this label will be required if “a material portion of the content” involved use of generative AI. There’s no publicly known timeline for when the tags will begin appearing or if there’s…