During a high-stakes antitrust trial, a Google lawyer, John Schmidtlein, reportedly said that companies choose Google as their default search engine not because of a lack of competition but because it is simply the best option available. Making his opening statements Tuesday (Sept. 12) at the start of...
Since the dawn of software, there have been two types of development: open source and closed source. A simple binary with complex ramifications, it is from these two varietals that the entire digital landscape we inhabit and operate across has sprung. As one might expect,...
It’s a large language model (LLM) landscape, and we’re just living in it. There are more generative artificial intelligence (AI) platforms in the market now than months in the emergent tech’s commercial lifespan. This, as both Meta and Elon Musk have announced the launch of their own AI platforms,...
More than a dozen tech companies whose products offer alternatives to those produced by technology giants have come out in favor of federal regulation that would rein in the largest companies. DuckDuckGo, which offers a privacy-focused search engine that competes with Google, and Mozilla, the...
January 27, 2026
Non-profit software company Mozilla reportedly wants to keep the artificial intelligence (AI) industry’s giants in check. To that end, the company is putting together “a rebel alliance of sorts,” Mozilla President Mark Surman told CNBC Tuesday (Jan. 27). The goal is to make AI more trustworthy while offering a counter to massive players like OpenAI […]
September 12, 2023
During a high-stakes antitrust trial, a Google lawyer, John Schmidtlein, reportedly said that companies choose Google as their default search engine not because of a lack of competition but because it is simply...
September 13, 2022
More than a dozen tech companies whose products offer alternatives to those produced by technology giants have come out in favor of federal regulation that would rein in the largest...
September 16, 2019
Three companies have joined forces to change the way things are paid for online with a native web payments standard, according to a report by TechCrunch. To help the initiative...