You might pick your hotel for its location or price, but one of the things I consider is whether its Wi-Fi is fast and reliable. I make my living working online. If I can't count on a speedy connection, I'm in trouble. So I was intrigued when I heard network performance specialist Ookla announce the launch of Speedtest Certified, a new connectivity verification program designed to help property owners and businesses prove the quality of their network infrastructure.
In the case of Google, the probe could stem from the DOJ's antitrust suit against Google over search. During the trial, it came out Google had a penchant for raising and lowering search rates as needed to meet quarterly benchmarks. In a bit of legal discovery , former Google ad leader Jerry Dischler offhandedly referred to the practice as "shaking the cushions." Now, the FTC is wondering how Google could turn those knobs up or down without advertisers realizing.
Swissto12 describes itself as currently one of the fastest-growing aerospace companies and a leading manufacturer of advanced satellite systems and radio frequency products, and in its latest move, the company says it has made a key step forward, reaching preliminary design review (PDR) in the development of the Neastar-1 geostationary satellite, which it is undertaking with Astrum Mobile, Asia Pacific's only satellite-to-device (S2D) company.
China has dealt Nvidia another blow, finding the chipmaker in violation of the country's anti-monopoly Law and escalating a long-running regulatory headache into a full investigation. China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said on Monday that its preliminary investigation found Nvidia violated the country's competition rules, as well as the terms of a conditional approval it granted in 2020 for one of Nvidia's acquisitions.
"Actually, having his creative energies in various endeavours that are outside of Tesla actually helps Tesla. I know that sounds perverse, and people don't really understand that," Denholm said. "But having worked with him now for 11 years, it actually benefits Tesla with him doing things that are not in the mission of Tesla outside of Tesla, both from a resource perspective, but also from a motivation perspective."
[A]s we introduce all photonics networks and this end to end connectivity, extend it into the data center, we're reducing the latency such that it starts to feel much more like it's just another server and another rack in the same data center. We're literally approaching the speed of light in terms of how we transmit signals from end to end and the latency in, say, thousand of kilometers is still measured in a small number of milliseconds
Elon Musk's tunnel-digging firm The Boring Company's operations in Las Vegas were suspended after a worker sustained a "crushing injury." As local fire department and OSHA spokespeople told Fortune, authorities received a call about an "industrial/machinery incident" on Wednesday evening. The injured worker had to be lifted out of the tunnel using an on-site crane and transported to a local hospital. "The patient is reported to be stable," a spokeswoman for the patient told Fortune.
As AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot and Codex become more prominent, certain aspects of coding are being automated. For instance, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in the company's first quarter earnings call this year that over 30% of Google's code is AI-generated. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in April that for some company projects, AI writes between 20% and 30% of the code, and it's increasingly using agents to review code, as well.
A new survey confirms what many IT pros already know: downtime doesn't exist, with dashboards and alerts intruding on their free time. More than half of the 616 IT professionals surveyed (52 percent) said they checked dashboards during nights, weekends, or vacations, with 59 percent saying past outages had left them more obsessive about making sure that everything is working. A third of IT pros said they felt compelled to check in at least once an hour.
Google Tables, a work-tracking tool and competitor to the popular spreadsheet-database hybrid Airtable, is shutting down. In an email sent to Tables users this week, Google said the app will not be supported after December 16, 2025, and advised that users export or migrate their data to either Google Sheets or AppSheet instead, depending on their needs. Launched in 2020, Tables focused on making project tracking more efficient with automation.
The Lumex CSS is a turnkey solution . To be clear, ARM isn't about to start selling chips. Instead, it has crafted production-ready implementations for the 3nm semiconductor nodes of multiple foundries. In ARM's own words, its silicon and OEM partners will be able to "use the implementations as flexible building blocks, so they can focus on differentiation at the CPU and GPU cluster level."
Most of your data in an organization is actually in the form of this unstructured data - 90% plus of most organizations - it's data in an unstructured form, but it contains an awful lot of very useful structured data as well," said Kus.
The ever-evolving nature of IT operations and the growing complexity of modern technology environments have clearly spelled the need for AIOps tools. AIOps, or Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations, uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies to enhance and automate various IT operation tasks. AIOps platforms are designed to analyze and interpret data generated from various IT operations tools and platforms, providing service assurance and insights, automating routine tasks, and helping organizations detect and resolve issues more efficiently.
Around 70 members of the team behind the open source database have been shown the door as part of Oracle's latest round of redundancies, according to one high-level source in the MySQL community. Michael "Monty" Widenius, who co-authored the original MySQL in the 1990s, posted that he was "Heartbroken to hear about the widespread layoffs at MySQL last week, and while I'm not surprised that Oracle is going in this direction with MySQL, it still saddens me that it's come to this."
BLAIR, NE - September 11, 2025 - Great Plains Communications (GPC), a leading digital infrastructure provider, today announced the expansion of its advanced fiber-optic network into Kentucky. This 165-mile network and deep carrier interconnections will provide businesses, wholesale customers, wireless carriers and hyperscalers with fully redundant fiber connectivity and a complete suite of enterprise-grade services with speeds ranging from 1 Gigabit to 400 Gigabits.
OpenAI and Oracle signed a deal "to purchase $300 billion in computing power over roughly five years," one of the largest cloud computing deals ever, reports the Wall Street Journal. In July, the two companies revealed their partnership to build data centers worth 4.5 gigawatts of power as part of the broader Stargate project they announced with Softbank and President Trump, without explaining how much OpenAI planned to pay for the datacenters.
Big Red released financial results that analysts viewed as fairly normal for the first quarter of the 2026 fiscal year. Profits were flat at $2.93 billion for the quarter and its earnings per share were lower than the same quarter last year. But what's sent the stock price skyrocketing nearly 30 percent after normal trading hours on Tuesday is anticipated future earnings.
A leadership shakeup is brewing within xAI's data annotation team. At least nine high-level employees appear to no longer be with the team. Their Slack accounts were deactivated over the weekend, according to screenshots seen by Business Insider. The employees worked on the human data management team, which oversees the AI tutors who train Grok. Previously, the managerial ranks included around a dozen people, according to a review of LinkedIn profiles and workers with knowledge of the team.
Google will not have to sell its Chrome search engine but must share information with competitors, a US federal judge has ordered. The remedies decided by District Judge Amit Mehta have emerged after a years-long court battle over Google's dominance in online search. The case centred around Google's position as the default search engine on a range of its own products such as Android and Chrome as well as others made by the likes of Apple.
Last month Joby acquired Blade Air Mobility, which flies passengers by seaplanes,` in a $125 million deal, providing Joby with an established network of terminals. The partnership lays the foundation for Joby's introduction into key urban markets, and for a faster entry into commercial service once its all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircrafts are certified. Last year, Blade flew more than 50,000 passengers in the New York metro area,
platform and extended toolsets. Aiming to explain where digital planning tools go next in a world of spiralling cloud complexity, advancing agentic AI automation and abstracted orchestrion, the company used its aim10x Americas event this month in Dallas, Texas, to host a media and analyst day that really drilled into the smörgåsbord of planning software functionalities that the company is currently weaving together.
The tech company leased a warehouse in the Mission District last month that will serve as a research and development space to advance its autonomous delivery technology, a June letter sent to San Francisco Zoning Administrator Corey Teague shows. "This project reflects a broader commitment to reinvesting in San Francisco's innovation economy and creating pathways for local employment in emerging technologies," the letter said. The 34,325-square-foot building at 1960 Folsom St. is roughly two miles away from DoorDash's headquarters. About 200 people are expected to be employed at the site.
Airports are among the most lucrative areas for ride-hailing businesses because they're one of the few hubs that provide round-the-clock trips. Tesla is in the early days of its ride-hailing service and hasn't been approved to provide autonomous rides for the public in California, but the company is making airports a priority. In a memo Business Insider obtained in July, roughly a month after Tesla launched Robotaxi in Austin, the EV maker notified the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
Elon Musk still makes some of America's best electric cars. Earlier this summer, I rented a brand-new, updated Tesla Model Y, the first refresh to the electric SUV since it debuted, in 2020. Compared with even just two years ago, when the Model Y became the world's best-selling car, many companies make great EVs now. Some of them have the Model Y beat in certain areas, but for the price, the Tesla is still the total package.
Rideshare company Uber plans to offer seats on Blade helicopters and seaplanes directly through its app, allowing customers to book fast rides between city hubs, to airports, and more, the company shared with Travel + Leisure. Currently, space on Blade's helicopters to the airport start at $195 per person (significantly more than a typical Uber ride), while larger groups can instead charter an entire Blade helicopter accommodating up to eight passengers starting at around $2,000, according to the helicopter company.
The Las Vegas debut of Zoox's long-planned ride-hailing service reflects Amazon-owned robotaxi maker's confidence in the safety of its vehicles after two years of testing them in the city. The boxy, four-passenger robotaxis are built in a former bus factory in Hayward, and they have been undergoing testing on San Francisco's streets for almost a year. The Las Vegas vehicles initially were only available to employees before gradually expanding to friends and family members.
The move comes as the 5,000-person company faces mounting pressure. Advertising revenue growth flatlined at 4% in the second quarter, and North American daily active users declined 2% to 98 million, a troubling sign in Snap's most important market. Spiegel does highlight one bright spot: Snapchat+ subscriptions now generate over $700 million in annual recurring revenue from more than 15 million paying subscribers, making direct revenue "one of Snap's fastest-growing opportunities."
When it comes to evaluating the return on investment for cloud-based artificial intelligence projects, the discussion tends to swing between two extreme viewpoints-either enterprises are raking in big gains or they're stuck in a never-ending quagmire of false starts and expensive lessons. Google Cloud's latest study, "The ROI of AI 2025" paints a hopeful picture, claiming that early adopters of AI agents are seeing returns within the first year.
In the filing, Google said the open web "is already in rapid decline." It seemed like a startling admission for a company that has been arguing that the web is healthier than ever. But when Business Insider contacted Google for comment Monday, a spokesperson said the filing was referring to "open-web display advertising" market -the ads that appear on websites and the adtech infrastructure that facilitates them - rather than the open web itself, meaning websites that are accessible without a login.
Citrix has warned products sold under a legacy licensing scheme will face a "loss of functionality" as the company shifts to a new framework next year. In a published 8 September, the company detailed plans to move to the new licensing scheme, which is set to come into effect in April 2026. Citrix said this shift will deliver a cloud-based framework in a bid to deliver "streamline licensing and faster support".
SpaceX just fired off one of the biggest shots yet in the spectrum wars, agreeing to pay $17 billion to take over a massive chunk of wireless airwaves from EchoStar for Starlink's Direct-to-Cell services. The deal is the most aggressive signal yet that SpaceX wants to rule the satellite-to-phone market. The significance of the sale, which sees SpaceX paying a mix of $8.5 billion in cash and $8.5 billion in SpaceX stock, centers around a finite resource: spectrum.
