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...Nvidia is a pure artificial intelligence play; Apple is a high-end consumer stock with defensive characteristics; Amazon is retailer-cloud computing hybrid; and so on....
...The writer is chair of Rockefeller International As the artificial intelligence wave powers the tech sector higher, giants such as Microsoft and Alphabet are not only gaining dramatically, they are gaining...
...Facebook, Amazon and Apple did not respond to requests for comment....
...Apple’s move on three fronts has left Alphabet’s position within iOS looking “more vulnerable than it ever has been before”, said Andrew Lipsman, analyst at Insider Intelligence....
...Alphabet is projected to fall by 2.5 percentage points to 48.4 per cent this year, the first time the two groups will not hold a majority share of the market since 2014, according to research group Insider Intelligence...
...Is that what you’d worry about with Apple?...
...Apple is the largest tech company yet to announce any significant cuts....
...ad budgets at companies like P&G are still outweighed by the number of companies increasing their spending to take advantage of continued demand from consumers, said Brian Wieser, president of business intelligence...
...Microsoft’s dominance in the PC era, like Apple’s leadership in smartphones, owed more to successfully repackaging technologies invented elsewhere than in conducting advanced R&D....
...Apple Pay Later will be serviced through a wholly owned subsidiary, Apple Financing LLC. Lex assesses the risks. 2....
...Digital advertising growth has held up well and looks set to remain robust this year, said Brian Wieser, head of business intelligence at GroupM....
...The internet group has also been insulated from the effect that Apple’s iPhone privacy changes have had on other digital advertising companies, said Scott Kessler, an analyst at Third Bridge....
...I also spoke with the co-founder of one of the artificial intelligence start-ups helping to automate loan underwriting....
...Salesforce.com, VMware, Dell and HP Inc also report....
...said Brian Wieser, head of business intelligence at GroupM, part of advertising group WPP. “It’s certainly higher than we expected two weeks ago.”...
...That amount will grow, as the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning demands more computing power....
...agrees $1bn EV parts joint venture with Canada’s Magna (FT) Spacs/Nikola: fresh-baked fruitcake (Lex) EasyJet directors suffer shareholder revolt (FT) Cook turned back on Musk offer to sell Tesla to Apple...
...The hire was ostensibly to boost its artificial intelligence capabilities and its Siri virtual assistant, but also brought eight years of experience running the world’s most popular search engine....
...The latter is based on the open-source Risc-V architecture....
...“In many ways it’s surprising, given how large of an industry search is, that it hasn’t been fundamentally rethought,” said Richard Socher, You.com’s chief executive, who left Salesforce’s artificial intelligence...
...But they still did remarkably well against the backdrop of a contraction in overall advertising of more than 20 per cent in many markets globally, said Brian Wieser, head of business intelligence at GroupM...
...While Mr Lynch did not name specific apps, he cited evidence from the office of the US director of national intelligence, who said last week that mobile apps made or owned by foreign entities could present...
...In a white paper today, the European Commission signalled its intention to draw up new rules to protect citizens against misuses of artificial intelligence....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on February 26, 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...This shift threatens entrepreneurship in many areas, from life sciences and artificial intelligence to quantum computing. The battles between Sonos and both Google and Amazon are a case in point....
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