WASHINGTON—The world’s biggest technology companies are looking to skirt President Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, potentially leaving the brunt of the new policy to hit smaller startups. Amazon’s Seattle headquarters. Such huge tech companies can afford to get around a new fee for foreign-worker visas. Drawing largely on playbooks they have relied on for years, … Read more
The race to dominate the burgeoning AI market is pushing tech giants to adopt business models reminiscent of IBM’s (IBM) in the 1960s. Big Tech “hyperscalers” Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), Meta (META), Microsoft (MSFT), and Amazon (AMZN) are all in various stages of developing their own custom AI chips to put in their data centers and … Read more
Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images Artificial intelligence companies are playing their biggest role yet at the Super Bowl, with all the major AI players buying ads to showcase their tools — both for consumers and for businesses — to the expected audience of as many as 130 million people. This year’s Super Bowl ads … Read more
The Department of Homeland Security has been quietly demanding tech companies turn over user information about critics of the Trump administration, according to reports. In several cases over recent months, Homeland Security has relied on the use of administrative subpoenas to seek identifiable information about individuals who run anonymous Instagram accounts, which share posts about … Read more