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Our new AI overlord just charmed Congress

By Sara Morrison

Microsoft’s big video game merger just got an extra life

By Sara Morrison

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Why Google is reinventing the internet search

By Sara Morrison

Microsoft’s current AI dominance is thrilling the company’s diehard fans

By Sara Morrison

Will using AI make Microsoft Word better? We’re going to find out.

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rani Molla

The makers of ChatGPT just released a new AI that can build websites, among other things

By Shirin Ghaffary

Silicon Valley’s AI frenzy isn’t just another crypto craze

By Shirin Ghaffary

Google is scrambling to catch up to Bing, of all things

By Sara Morrison

Microsoft is beating Google at its own game

By Sara Morrison

What Microsoft gets from betting billions on the maker of ChatGPT

By Sara Morrison

Big Tech’s Big Flops of 2022

By Sara Morrison

The US government wants to stop the biggest deal in video game history

By Sara Morrison

Legs are finally coming to Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse

By Shirin Ghaffary

Microsoft avoided the latest Big Tech scrutiny. Then it bought a company for $69 billion.

By Sara Morrison

Microsoft is buying one of the biggest names in games — if Washington lets it

By Peter Kafka

The case against Big Tech

By Sara Morrison and Shirin Ghaffary

Big Tech is so big it doesn’t need its founders anymore

By Peter Kafka

How your browser can make your online life a little more private

By Sara Morrison

Trump issued an executive order effectively banning TikTok if it doesn’t sell in the next 45 days

By Shirin Ghaffary

Last week the US wanted to break up Big Tech. Now it’s trying to supersize it.

By Peter Kafka

Microsoft’s astonishing climate change goals, explained

By David Roberts

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What comes after Zoom fatigue

It looks like we’re stuck with video chat. Is that such a bad thing?

By Adam Clark Estes

Microsoft, Google, and Zoom are trying to keep up with demand for their now free work-from-home software

By Rani Molla

Alexa records you more often than you think

By Sara Morrison

Antitrust officials ordered Facebook, Amazon, and others to disclose 10 years of merger docs

By Jason Del Rey

Amazon lost a $10 billion Pentagon contract to Microsoft. Now it’s blaming President Trump directly.

By Jason Del Rey

Why the government is investigating Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook for antitrust — but not Microsoft

By Rani Molla

Startups still love Slack but big companies are bailing

By Rani Molla

Every tech company should “work together and fix things,” says Microsoft President Brad Smith

By Eric Johnson

Microsoft wants to build artificial general intelligence: an AI better than humans at everything

By Kelsey Piper

Microsoft might crush Slack like Facebook crushed Snapchat

By Rani Molla

Tech billionaires who donate millions are just “bribing society at large,” Anand Giridharadas says

By Eric Johnson

Why is LinkedIn producing original journalism? LinkedIn editor-at-large Jessi Hempel explains.

By Eric Johnson

Microsoft workers are demanding the company cancel its $480 million contract with the US military

By Shirin Ghaffary

The government is using the wrong data to make crucial decisions about the internet

By Rani Molla

“Venture capital money kills more businesses than it helps,” says Basecamp CEO Jason Fried

By Eric Johnson

Is being woke the business strategy of 2019?

By Eric Johnson

Microsoft is more valuable than Apple again. Why?

By Eric Johnson

Who could buy Discord? Acquirers have been giving the gaming startup a long look.

By Theodore Schleifer and Kurt Wagner

Microsoft’s president says we need to regulate facial recognition tech before ‘the year 2024 looks like the book “1984”’

By Kurt Wagner