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Reddit Shifting Towards Search as Company Wants to Become a Search Engine

You may not need to add "Reddit" to your Google searches for much longer -- now, you can go straight to the source. In his Q2 letter to shareholders, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said the company will integrate its search function with Reddit Answers, which is currently available in the US and 11 other countries, "into a single search experience." Reddit will make the search box more visible on the app, bringing it "front and center." "Whether you're a new user opening the app for the first time

Reddit pauses its paywall plans

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Reddit is pausing its plans to let people make subreddits with content behind a paywall, CEO Steve Huffman said as part of Thursday’s earnings. The company is making the change as part of a shift in how it’s prioritizing its resources. Huffman said last year that the company was looking i

Nintendo hiking price of original Switch for U.S. customers

Nintendo said Friday it plans to hike the price of its original Switch "family of systems and products" in the U.S. The price increases, which take effect Aug. 3, are being made "based on market conditions," the Japanese company said in a post on its website. It will impact the original Switch console, Switch Lite and OLED models, as well as some Switch accessories. The price of the Switch 2 console, along with physical and digital Switch and Switch games, will remain the same for now, Nintend

5 ways to successfully integrate AI agents into your workplace

Techa Tungateja / Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Using AIs effectively means focusing on guidance and governance. You'll also need to ensure you train up talent to manage your AI agents. Track and trace outcomes to create the perfect tech-enabled work assistant. It's not unusual to hear business leaders discuss AI being used to augment rather than replace staff, but what does that new working relationship mean in practice? Also: AI's biggest impact on your workforce is still to come -

Amazon stock sinks 7% after earnings: Here are the key takeaways

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon CEO Andy Jassy looks on during an Amazon Devices launch event in New York City, U.S., February 26, 2025. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Amazon on Thursday reported second-quarter earnings that beat expectations on most metrics, but the results weren't good enough to please Wall Street. Amazon stock slid following the release and throughout the conference call. Shares were down about 7% Friday. Prof

Authorities seize BlackSuit ransomware gang’s servers

German prosecutors say a joint U.S.-European operation has seized infrastructure belonging to the BlackSuit ransomware gang, a notorious hacking group blamed for several major cyberattacks in recent years. In a new statement this week, officials in Germany said they had seized the gang’s servers and systems as part of an operation on July 24. The officials said the operation had secured “considerable amounts of data” that will be used to help identify the individuals responsible for the attacks

Joby Aviation and defense contractor L3Harris to test autonomous hybrid aircraft

Joby Aviation is often cast as a developer of commercial electric air taxis, but the publicly traded company has also pursued a separate track to market through a long-standing relationship with the U.S. Department of Defense. Now, its years of research and development with the Department of Defense may be paying off. The company on Thursday said it had signed an agreement with defense contractor L3Harris Technologies to “explore opportunities” to develop a new aircraft class — specifically, a

'What am I falling in love with?' Human-AI relationships are no longer just science fiction

Nikolai Daskalov lives alone in a small house in rural Virginia. His preferred spot is a brown suede recliner in the middle of his living room facing a vintage wooden armoire and a TV that's rarely turned on. The front of the white home is covered in shrubs, and inside there are trinkets, stacks of papers and faded photos that decorate the walls. There's nobody else around. But Daskalov, 61, says he's never lonely. He has Leah. "Hey, Leah, Sal and his team are here, and they want to interview yo

Reddit should be a 'go-to search engine,' Steve Huffman says

Reddit is going to be leaning even harder into search in the coming months. The company has already been working on a plan to integrate its LLM-powered search into its main search feature, but CEO Steve Huffman said he wants users to think of the site as an actual search engine. During the company's latest earnings call, Huffman said search is one of the top priorities for Reddit. "We're concentrating our resources on the areas that will drive results for our most pressing needs, improving the

Apple is 'open to' acquisitions to boost its AI roadmap

Apple leadership discussed results and updates today in its third-quarter conference call, including some statements about its AI endeavors. As reported by CNBC, CEO Tim Cook said that the company is "significantly growing out investments" in artificial intelligence, which shouldn't be much of a surprise for any players in the tech space. However, Cook did acknowledge that an acquisition to boost its work in AI wasn't out of the question. "We’re open to M&A that accelerates our roadmap," he said

Tim Cook says Apple is ‘open to’ AI acquisitions

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company is “open” to mergers and acquisitions as it “significantly” increases its investment in AI, as reported by CNBC. Cook’s statements were made alongside the release of Apple’s third-quarter earnings results, which revealed that

Apple says Trump’s tariffs are adding another $1 billion to its costs

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple is spending a lot on President Donald Trump’s tariffs. During an earnings call on Thursday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the duties could add $1.1 billion to its costs during the September quarter. Cook says Apple has already spent around $800 million during t

Iconiq’s Will Griffith explains how his firm celebrated Figma’s IPO and why investors sold shares

Will Griffith had only been two months in his job as a venture investor for Iconiq when he met a 19-year-old college dropout named Dylan Field. This would lead to one of his signature seed investments, in a startup called Figma. On Thursday, Figma went public with the stock popping from the $33 IPO opening price to close at $115.50 and a $47 billion market cap. And Griffith could not be more effusive in his praise for the company. “You go to one of these user conferences and you’re like, there

Tim Cook: Apple is ‘significantly growing’ AI spend, M&A could accelerate roadmap

Today Apple reported its quarterly earnings, far exceeding Wall Street expectations with a huge 10% YoY revenue increase. Apple CEO Tim Cook also signaled strong AI ambitions for the company in quotes made to CNBC. Apple’s AI investments are growing, but much more could be ahead Kif Leswing writes at CNBC: “We are significantly growing our investments,” Cook said about AI. “We’re embedding it across our devices, across our platforms and across the company.” Cook said that Apple had acquired “

SEC debuts 'Project Crypto' to bring U.S. financial markets 'on chain'

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday debuted "Project Crypto," an initiative to modernize securities rules and regulations to allow for crypto-based trading. "To achieve President Trump's vision of making America the crypto capital of the world, the SEC must holistically consider the potential benefits and risks of moving our markets from an off-chain environment to an on-chain one," SEC chair Paul Atkins said in remarks to an "American Leadership in the Digital Finance Revolution

AI Is Already Disrupting Labor, and Recent Grads Could Be a ‘Lost Generation’

“Artificial intelligence is going to replace literally half of all white-collar workers in the U.S.” That’s a direct quote from Ford CEO Jim Farley from earlier this month. And he is not the only executive ringing the alarm. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas recently told The Verge that he expects AI to be able to replace recruiters and executive assistants in the next six months. The warnings are plenty, and the timeline the executives give is relatively short. But the reality may be even more i

Ford’s planning a ‘Model T moment’ for EVs on August 11th

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Ford is preparing a major electric vehicle announcement that CEO Jim Farley calls a “Model T moment,” as reported earlier by InsideEVs. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Farley said the company will reveal plans to design and build a “breakthrough” EV, along with a new platform, at an August 11th event in Kentucky. Even as Ford’s EV business to

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AI Is Taking Over Your Search Engine. Here's What It's Doing and Why It Matters

For decades, the way we find information on the internet changed only in small ways. Doing a traditional Google search today doesn't feel all that different from when, in the 1990s, you would Ask Jeeves. Sure, a lot has changed under the hood, the results are likely far more relevant and the interface has some new features, but you're still typing in keywords and getting a list of websites that might hold the answer. That way of searching, it seems, is starting to go the way of AltaVista, may i

Microsoft and Amazon are hurting cloud competition, UK regulator finds

Attendees walk through an exposition hall at AWS re:Invent, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, 2024. LONDON — Britain's competition regulator on Thursday said that Microsoft and Amazon are hurting competition in the cloud computing industry and called for a probe into their market dominance under the country's strict new tech rules. The Competition and Markets Authority said that market concentration and barriers to entry in the cloud services market have enabl

A Quantum Gravimeter for GPS Backup

A novel quantum sensor that measures gravity changes by detecting variations in the travel time of falling atoms has been tested in a first of its kind experiment aboard an Australian naval ship. The sensor—a dual gravimeter—has been developed by Australian company Q-CTRL and could reach the market in late 2026. During the tests onboard the Royal Australian Navy’s aviation training vessel MV Sycamore, the crew was able to navigate for 144 hours without GPS access using the autonomous prototype

OpenAI spearheads one of Europe’s biggest data centers with 100,000 Nvidia chips

OpenAI on Thursday said it is launching a Stargate-branded AI data center in Norway, marking its first foray into Europe with such a project. British firm Nscale will design and build the site as part of a 50-50 joint venture with Norwegian energy infrastructure firm Aker. OpenAI will be a so-called "off-taker" in the project, meaning it will effectively buy capacity from the data center. "Part of the purpose of this project is to partner with OpenAI and leverage European sovereign compute to

New DNA Map of the Pistachio Could Create Better Varieties

California produces 99% of the nation’s pistachios, generating nearly $3 billion in economic value in the state. But pistachios have been slightly understudied in part because of the lack of a high-quality map of their DNA. University of California, Davis, researchers have now generated the most comprehensive genome sequence of the pistachio, allowing plant breeders to create better — perhaps more nutritious — varieties. They’ve also detailed how pistachio nuts develop, which will help farmers m

Meta's big AI spending blitz will continue into 2026

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to continue his company's artificial intelligence spending blitz well into the next year as rival tech giants do the same. Zuckerberg told analysts Wednesday during a second-quarter earnings call that AI's rapid pace of progress has informed much of Meta's recent business decisions, including the company's $14.3 billion June investment into the data-annotating startup Scale AI as part of a revamped AI strategy involving a wave of high-profile hires. AI's swift ad

Mark Zuckerberg Details Meta’s Plan for Self-Improving, Superintelligent AI

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors that the newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs is focused on building AI models that can self-improve—meaning they can learn from themselves without as much human input. The remarks came during a second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. “At some level, [it’s] not just going to be learning from people, because you want to build something that is fundamentally smarter than people,” Zuckerberg said. “So…you’re going to develop a way for it to improve it

Arm shares slip as smartphone royalties disappoint

The replica of the ARM is an electronic chip board during a collaborative ceremony launching a partnership between Malaysia and ARM Holdings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 5, 2025. Arm Holdings shares dipped as much as 9% in after-hours trading on the company's first-quarter earnings results Wednesday. Here's how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG: Earnings per share : 35 cents adjusted vs. 35 cents expected : 35 cents adjusted vs. 35 cents expected Re

EBay stock surges on earnings beat, rosy guidance

Shares of eBay popped 10% in extended trading on Wednesday after the online marketplace posted stronger-than-expected results for the second quarter, and offered an upbeat forecast for the current period. Here's how the company did in the second quarter compared to analyst estimates compiled by LSEG. Earnings per share: $1.37 adjusted vs. $1.30 expected $1.37 adjusted vs. $1.30 expected Revenue: $2.73 billion vs. $2.64 billion expected GMV, or the dollar value of items sold, grew 6% year ove

Big Tech to work with Trump administration to build digital health ecosystem

In Brief The Trump administration said on Wednesday that it secured commitments from Google, OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic, and Apple to start building a digital health ecosystem. The efforts will focus on two areas: creating a framework for patients and providers to easily share information, and creating more personal tools so patients can access resources needed to stay informed about their health. Such tools include apps to manage diabetes and obesity, using artificial intelligence as assistant

Hackers stole Social Security numbers during Allianz Life cyberattack

Hackers who breached U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life earlier this month stole reams of customer Social Security numbers, according to notifications filed with several U.S. states and seen by TechCrunch. Allianz Life disclosed the July 16 breach this past weekend, confirming to TechCrunch the unidentified hackers stole the personally identifiable information belonging to the “majority” of its 1.4 million customers, as well as financial professionals and some Allianz Life employees. The compan

Most Illinois farmland is not owned by farmers

Surrounded by rows of soybeans and corn, Hans Bishop’s farm in central Illinois was an anomaly. He grew kale, peppers, eggplants and radishes, selling to Whole Foods from June through October and to local restaurants, grocers and families year-round. The vegetable farm was born in 2009 on a quarter acre rented to him by his father, a row crop farmer. After spending a decade in the corporate world, Bishop was inspired by documentaries such as “Fresh” and “Food, Inc.” that scrutinized conventiona

Superhot geothermal energy could unearth big power boost for the AI era

Geothermal energy has been used for thousands of years, powering heating systems as early as the 14th century. It's getting a big upgrade. Beyond geothermal, there's superhot geothermal, which uses ultra-deep drilling to access extremely hot rocks, extracting 5 to 10 times more power per well. Quaise Energy, a Massachusetts-based startup, is in the market developing the technology, which involves an electromagnetic beam that vaporizes rock. The company's systems are able to reach superhot geot