If Alphabet's record-breaking, $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings, we can see that investors are ready to chow.

The future of the personal computer is a hot topic again, courtesy of Nvidia Corp.’s announcement this week with Microsoft Corp. The leader in AI hardware is taking another run at making the central component for laptops, promising to bring the biggest change to the devices in decades.

U.K. regulators are requiring Google offer a tool allowing website publishers to opt-out of generative AI search features. The option will be tested in the U.K. then rolled out globally.

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The caveat is that one of the world's most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding.

Intel's Lip-Bu Tan highlights why cross-sector partnerships are critical to sustaining a vibrant tech ecosystem. (Source: Bloomberg)

Jensen Huang speaks to reporters in Taipei about the high potential of South Korean tech companies. He speaks as Nvidia enters the PC market with a new chip aimed at loosening the stranglehold of Intel technology in that arena. (Source: Bloomberg)

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Nvidia's next target: the PC. A new AI chip sends Nvidia and related stocks soaring while rivals slide after Jensen Huang's Computex keynote. Plus, all eyes on SpaceX as the upcoming mega IPO is already reshaping Wall Street. And, what to expect from New York Tech Week, kicking off today. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nvidia Corp. is entering the PC market with a new chip aimed at loosening the stranglehold of Intel Corp. technology in that arena and modernizing the machines for the AI era. Mandeep Singh, Global Tech Research Head at Bloomberg Intelligence, discusses the move and what it means for the future of computing. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nvidia is entering the PC market with a new superchip. With Windows running on the chips, the company is going head-to-head with Intel and AMD, Tom Mackenzie explains. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nvidia Corp. is entering the PC market with a new chip aimed at loosening the stranglehold of Intel Corp. technology in that arena and modernizing the machines for the AI era.

In November 2023, we reported on dubious claims made by marketing firm Cox Media Group (CMG) Local Solutions. The company advertised a service called Active Listening on a website that said, “It’s true. Your devices are listening to you” and claimed it could use “voice data” to help advertisers target ads to specific people.

Naturally, panic ensued. 404 Media, which initially spotted the website, for instance, wrote that the idea of smartphones listening to people to sell products “may finally be a reality."

A screenshot taken in 2023 from a webpage that CMG has since removed.

Credit: Ars Technica via CMG Local Solutions

The idea of a marketing firm using AI to “detect relevant conversations via smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices” in real time—according to a since-deleted CMG blog post from November 2023 (still viewable via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine)—has raised alarms.

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In November 2023, we reported on dubious claims made by marketing firm Cox Media Group (CMG) Local Solutions. The company advertised a service called Active Listening on a website that said, “It’s true. Your devices are listening to you” and claimed it could use “voice data” to help advertisers target ads to specific people.

Naturally, panic ensued. 404 Media, which initially spotted the website, for instance, wrote that the idea of smartphones listening to people to sell products “may finally be a reality."

A screenshot taken in 2023 from a webpage that CMG has since removed.

Credit: Ars Technica via CMG Local Solutions

The idea of a marketing firm using AI to “detect relevant conversations via smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices” in real time—according to a since-deleted CMG blog post from November 2023 (still viewable via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine)—has raised alarms.

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