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CARY – Epic Games is cutting 830 jobs and selling two subsidiaries in financial cutbacks but its owner and CEO Tim Sweeney says the technology company’s legal fight against Apple and Google over antitrust issues will continue. In a publish series of comments about the state of Epic after the layoffs were announced, Sweeney said

By Brian Fung, CNN WASHINGTON — An antitrust lawsuit from 17 states and the Federal Trade Commission this week against Amazon represents the US government’s biggest regulatory challenge yet against the e-commerce juggernaut. The landmark case targets Amazon’s retail platform, alleging that it’s harmed shoppers and sellers alike on a massive scale. Through an alleged

RALEIGH – A new semiconductor research hub will be developed by a partnership including Wolfspeed, N.C. State and North Carolina A&T with the federal government choosing the group for a $39.4 million grant. It’s called the Commercial Leap Ahead for Wide Bandgap Semiconductors, or CLAWS, Hub. Other partners include Adroit Materials, General Electric and Kyma.

By Tim Hardwick, MacRumors Former Apple designer Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Sam Altman are in advanced talks with SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son to launch a $1 billion venture to build “the iPhone of artificial intelligence,” according to the Financial Times. The news follows a report on Wednesday that claimed Ive and Altman are in discussions about creating an AI

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By Juli Clover, MacRumors Facebook parent company Meta announced Wednesday the upcoming launch of the $500 Meta Quest 3, its newest mixed reality headset that goes up against the much more expensive Vision Pro that Apple plans to launch next year. Meta claims that the Quest 3 was redesigned from the inside out, and it features

Editor’s note: The FTC and attorneys general from 17 states, filed suit against Amazon on Tuesday, and the ecommerce giant has fired back, calling the lawsuit misguided. ” We fundamentally disagree with the FTC’s allegations—which are in many cases wrong or misleading—and with their overreaching and misguided approach to antitrust, which would harm consumers, hurt

WASHINGTON — A top Apple executive defended the tech giant’s decision to make Google the default search engine on Apple iPhones and Macs, saying there was no “valid alternative.’’ Testifying in the biggest antitrust trial in a quarter century, Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, said Tuesday that there wasn’t “anybody as good’’

By Juli Clover, MacRumors Spotify this week announced an AI translation feature for podcasters that could give it an edge over Apple’s podcasting platform. Voice Translation for podcasts uses artificial intelligence to translate podcasts into additional languages using the original podcaster’s voice. While Spotify developed the tool, it is using OpenAI’s latest voice generation technology. It learns the original

Amazon is being sued by U.S. regulators and 17 states over allegations that the company abuses its position in the marketplace to inflate prices on other platforms, overcharge sellers and stifle competition. North Carolina is not part of the lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, is