Scott Forstall, the former head of iOS software at Apple, said on Tuesday that the reviews of the original iPhone “didn’t get it.” In a conversation with former New York Times reporter John Markoff at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, Forstall said that while he was “unconcerned” with the reviews, he felt […]

Tesla on Tuesday confirmed that it had hired a major figure in artificial intelligence (AI) to be its new head of AI and Autopilot vision. Andrej Karpathy, who is joining from nonprofit research lab OpenAI, has done extensive work in trendy areas in AI such as reinforcement learning and generative adversarial networks (GANs). Before joining […]

Even though Jim Cramer hates bonds for how boring they are compared to stocks, he cannot discount their intelligence when it comes to predicting day-to-day market activity. On Tuesday, investors watched as bonds rallied and interest rates fell, signaling a slowdown. And while the “Mad Money” host made a point of saying stocks are not […]

IBM is one of few institutional companies that are constantly reinventing themselves, and CEO Ginni Rometty said that the technology giant found its latest gold mine in data. “Twenty percent of the world’s data is searchable. Anybody can get to that 20,” Rometty told “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer on Tuesday. “But 80 percent of […]

The conversation in the technology community about artificial intelligence was first rekindled by manufacturing giant IBM and its AI platform, Watson, CEO Ginni Rometty said on Tuesday. “We are the ones that woke up the AI world here again,” Rometty told “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer in a wide-ranging interview about Washington, Warren Buffett and […]

IBM’s stock took a major hit when billionaire investor Warren Buffett said he sold about a third of his IBM shares, but CEO Ginni Rometty seemed unfazed when asked about his move. “We’ve traded publicly [for] 100 years out there,” she told “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer on Tuesday. “And the trick to being a […]

Seattle’s prestigious Institute for Systems Biology has long been a draw for star experimental scientists. But it’s now in a battle for talent with some deep-pocketed competitors: Amazon and Google. Out of a group of a dozen researchers, four have recently left for Amazon, Google and Microsoft, said Nathan Price, associate director of ISB, which […]

Though artificial intelligence is continuing to grow smarter, it’s no match for human wisdom, Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of Alibaba, told CNBC in an interview on Tuesday. “It’s about wisdom. It’s about experience,” said Ma, China’s richest man and e-commerce mogul. “So I don’t think the machine — the artificial intelligence — is […]

Amazon’s move to buy Whole Foods is not surprising and is in line with what Alibaba has already started doing in China, Alibaba’s vice chair, Joseph Tsai, told CNBC on Tuesday. “Great minds think alike,” Tsai said in an interview with “Closing Bell” from the sidelines of Alibaba’s Gateway conference in Detroit. “We think that’s […]

Sirius announced on Tuesday morning that Sirius XM is now available from any subscriber’s device that has Amazon Alexa installed, including the Echo. That means you can finally play your favorite stations at home, much like you would in your car, without having to buy a separate Sirius XM player. It’s just as easy as […]