How to AirDrop on an Android phone (and the few models that can actually do it)

How to AirDrop on an Android phone (and the few models that can actually do it)

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Android and iPhone users can now share files quickly and easily. Currently, only Pixel 10 phones support the feature. Google says it will expand the tech to other Android devices. I use an iPhone as my primary mobile device. From my phone,…

An exclusive tour of Amazon’s Trainium lab, the chip that’s won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple 

An exclusive tour of Amazon’s Trainium lab, the chip that’s won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple 

Shortly after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced AWS’s groundbreaking $50 billion investment deal with OpenAI, Amazon invited me on a private tour of the chip development lab at the heart of the deal, at (mostly*) its own expense.  Industry experts are watching Amazon’s Trainium chip, created at that facility, for its implications for lower-cost AI…

After getting hit by multiple data breaches, I gave DeleteMe a try – here’s how it’s paid off

After getting hit by multiple data breaches, I gave DeleteMe a try – here’s how it’s paid off

ZDNET’s key takeaways Pros: Removes personal info from data brokers, ongoing monitoring, easy setup Cons: Some features locked behind higher tiers, can’t clean certain data Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Whether you realize it or not, your personal information is likely somewhere online. Massive data breaches over the years have poured millions…

AI startups are eating the venture industry and the returns, so far, are good

AI startups are eating the venture industry and the returns, so far, are good

Well, the data is out. AI startups accounted for 41% of the $128 billion in venture dollars raised by companies on Carta last year — a record-high annual share. In a sense, though, we knew that. Investors last year were voracious in deploying capital to AI startups, to the point that 10% of startups accounted for…

Are AI tokens the new signing bonus or just a cost of doing business?

Are AI tokens the new signing bonus or just a cost of doing business?

This week, a topic that has been boomeranging around Silicon Valley bounced into the spotlight: AI tokens as compensation. The idea is straightforward enough — rather than giving engineers only salary, equity, and bonuses, companies would also hand them a budget of AI tokens, the computational units that power tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini….

Why Wall Street wasn’t won over by Nvidia’s big conference

Why Wall Street wasn’t won over by Nvidia’s big conference

When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage for his annual GTC keynote on Monday, the $4-trillion-dollar company’s stock started to drop. Wall Street investors, it seems, were unmoved by the leather jacket-clad founder’s bullish 2.5-hour speech. Instead, they placed more weight on AI’s uncertain future and fears of a bubble. The nervousness felt by…

Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘fake compliance’

Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘fake compliance’

An anonymous Substack post published this week accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations, potentially exposing those customers to “criminal liability under HIPAA and hefty fines under GDPR.” Delve is a Y Combinator-backed startup that last year announced raising a $32 million Series A…

Publisher pulls horror novel ‘Shy Girl’ over AI concerns

Publisher pulls horror novel ‘Shy Girl’ over AI concerns

Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing a novel called “Shy Girl” over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text. The novel was scheduled to be published in the United States this spring. Hachette said it will also discontinue the book in the United Kingdom, where it’s already available.  Although…