Big Tech
Vox’s coverage of the big players in tech and their monopoly on the industry.


The science fiction pioneer on making a template for Mark Zuckerberg, not making movies, and a worrisome climate change scenario.


It isn’t theoretical. Millions of people are already using apps like ChatGPT to write books, create art, and develop code.


The pillar of internet free speech seems to be everyone’s target.


You used to pay for social media with your eyeballs. Now Meta and Twitter want your money, too.


One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google’s earliest employees — is leaving the company.

Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh seek to conscript big tech into the war on terror; the results could be disastrous.


Google bookended Microsoft’s big AI search announcement with underwhelming AI news of its own.


The new AI chat bot is available to “trusted testers” for now and will be released to the public in the “coming weeks.”


What can Napster tell us about the future?


The bright side to all these terrible tech layoffs.

Facebook, Google, and Amazon are trying to get their groove back.


The software stalwart’s big investment in AI could make it cutting-edge again.


Layoffs, an AI threat, and now a massive antitrust lawsuit.


The reported $10 billion investment in OpenAI will keep the hottest AI company on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.


After the largest corporate layoffs in its history, the tech giant is at a crossroads.


We bid adieu to moonshots, Portals, and ad-free Netflix.


Amazon was already considering a change that regulators are now framing as a win.

Apple’s privacy-friendly ad business is also an antitrust avoidance strategy.


A leaked memo shows Amazon was concerned with attracting and retaining top engineers earlier this year.


Sorry, no one is actually going to give you a free Yeti cooler.


Amazon has quietly been developing AI software to screen job applicants.


After 48 hours of chaos and silence from top company leaders, many employees still don’t know if they’ll have jobs next year.

Inside the under-the-radar business that makes more money than Amazon Prime.


The senator is asking the FTC and the DOJ to watch out for Amazon’s, Apple’s, and Google’s moves into your dashboard.


Meta and the rest aren’t going away, but now they’re big boring companies. Maybe that’s not a terrible thing.


The tech giant warned that businesses are cutting spending and customers are tightening their belts.


Amazon workers at the ALB1 warehouse near Albany, New York, voted 406-206 against unionizing.


The election at the ALB1 Amazon warehouse near Albany could prove the Staten Island union victory was no fluke.


The tech CEO said getting it right will be “hard.”

Thanks to touchscreens and the pandemic, tipflation is everywhere — and it’s hard to say no.


Four theories on why ad sales are plummeting even as the economy is doing fine.


A new Amazon robot handles 1,000 items an hour.


It looks like the boom days are fading in Big Tech, even if the cash is still flowing.


How to track which media company owns your favorite show — and why that may no longer be a media company.


“There are a lot of very disturbing irregularities,” Andy Jassy said.


A former Amazon employee found that, in large areas of Washington state, Prime deliveries can take four to five business days.


“None of us were talking about TikTok three years ago.”


Money from Meta — and the rest of Big Tech — is pouring into Washington publications.


Leaked memo reveals the tech giant’s plans to combat the Teamsters in California.


Chrome’s third-party cookie ban has been delayed for another year, again.