Apple was facing increasing questions about its plans for artificial intelligence as other big tech companies invested tens of billions in the technology.

Three Democratic U.S. senators are calling on Apple and Alphabet's Google to remove X and its built-in artificial intelligence chatbot Grok from their app stores, citing the spread of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors on the platform.

Latest Gemini artificial intelligence model has fuelled investor optimism over competitiveness with OpenAI’s ChatGPT

Alphabet became the fourth company to reach a $4 trillion market valuation on Monday, underscoring the scale of investor enthusiasm surrounding artificial intelligence and the dominance of mega-cap technology firms in global equity markets.

Alphabet, Google's parent company, became the fourth company to reach a $4 trillion value Monday after Apple said it will use Gemini for AI.