Artificial intelligence announcements are expected at Google I/O next week but startup OpenAI could strike first with search engine news...

Microsoft will launch its own mobile game store in July, the company announced at the Bloomberg Technology Summit on Thursday. Xbox president Sarah Bond shared that the company plans to bring its first-party portfolio, which includes titles like Candy Crush and Minecraft, to the mobile store at launch. Microsoft then plans to open up the mobile store to other publishers. “We're going to start on the web,” Bond said. “And we're doing that because that really allows us to have it be an experience...

OpenAI may potentially unveil its new AI-powered search engine as soon as Monday, Reuters reports. Questions about how the new platform could compete with Google's (GOOG, GOOGL) search engine are growing. Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley joins Catalysts to break down the latest report regarding OpenAI. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Catalysts. This post was written by Nicholas Jacobino...

The AI PC chip wars are going nuclear as Apple officially joins the fight with its M4 processor...

As Big Tech companies reported earnings, they also revealed a massive wave of planned spending on AI projects and infrastructure. Some companies like Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), Meta (META), and Microsoft (MSFT) have pulled ahead, while others, like Apple (AAPL), have faced mounting challenges. Wedbush Securities Managing Director Dan Ives joins The Morning Brief to discuss what he calls "the fourth industrial revolution" in AI and Apple's advances on the front. Ives states that Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference will be paramount for Apple: "I think it's probably the most important event for Apple that we've seen potentially in a decade because this is going to be [CEO Tim] Cook laying out the AI strategy on the services side for developers, what I believe is really the start of an AI app store in terms of how that's going to morph and then its proprietary AI technology in iPhone 16, which will launch in September." For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Morning Brief. This post was written by Nicholas Jacobino...