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  • Apple CEO Tim Cook waves to attendees during an event on the Apple campus in Cupertino, Calif., Monday, June 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)Tech

    Apple admits it’s not ready to roll out Siri AI: ‘The end of the Siri runway is coming up fast, and Apple needs to lift off’

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The Apple logo is displayed at an Apple store, Jan. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)Tech

    Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference opens as tech giant reels from AI missteps and Trump’s trade war

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • This image provided by BCG shows a sketch by Bob Goodson that included a crude concept of what would become the Like button on May 18, 2005. (BCG via AP)Tech

    The Like button almost didn’t make it onto Facebook because Zuckerberg hated it so much

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • The Google logo displayed on a buildingTech

    The Justice Department says a fitting punishment for Google’s search monopoly would be ordering the tech giant to divest from its ad business

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • A man walks in front of Google's London HQTech

    ‘Will we abandon the search market and surrender them to control of the monopolists?’ The Justice Department says Google’s ‘illegal conduct has created an economic goliath’

    By Michael Liedtke, Alan Suderman, and others
  • Trader Vincent Napolitano works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Finance

    Tesla kicks off earnings season for Big Tech’s ‘Magnificent 7’ amid huge market cap drops spurred by ‘massive uncertainty and chaos’ from White House

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A man walks past Google’s offices in London’s Kings Cross area, on Aug. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Melley, File)Tech

    Google begins court hearing about how it should be penalized for operating an illegal search monopoly—and a break-up is on the table

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • US President Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, April 10, 2025.Politics

    Trump might pump the brakes on auto tariffs — ‘I don’t change my mind but I’m flexible,’ president says

    By Josh Boak, Michael Liedtke, and others
  • Sales staffs work at an Apple shop in Hanoi, Vietnam Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)Tech

    Apple shifting iPhone production to the U.S. is a ‘non-starter,’ even as Trump’s tariffs threaten to push prices to $3,000

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • This 1975 photo provided by Gates Ventures shows Microsoft founder Bill Gates holding a printout of the computer coding that launched the software maker. (Ian Allen/Gates Ventures via AP)Tech

    Bill Gates offers to let anyone download the first operating system he and Paul Allen wrote 50 years ago: ‘That code remains the coolest I’ve ever written’

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • Los Angeles, California-December 26, 2024: A Waymo autonomous taxi picks up passengers in Downtown Los Angeles. The City of LA allows for self driving taxis driven by AI and Lidar Sensors under a pilot program.Tech

    Waymo started as a secret project at Google 16 years ago. Now it’s bringing driverless taxis to the nation’s capital

    By The Associated Press and Michael Liedtke
  • FILE – Two Waymo driverless taxis stop before passing one another on a San Francisco street on Feb. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Terry Chea, File)Tech

    Uber and Waymo launch driverless ride service in Austin

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • FILE – This is a display of iPhone 16s in an Apple Store in Pittsburgh on Jan. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)Leadership

    Apple shareholders expected to reject proposal to scrap corporate workforce diversity programs

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Audience members gather at Made By Google for new product announcements at Google on Aug. 13, 2024, in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Juliana Yamada, File)Success

    Google scraps diversity hiring goals in the face of Trump’s new anti-DEI government contractor rules

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • LinkedIn founder gesticulates on stageTech

    Reid Hoffman says AI could ultimately benefit the human experience instead of making social isolation worse because it’s ‘infinitely patient’

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press