Bloomberg Here is Google’s vision for the future of computing: As you drive home from work, you tell your car, “Ok, Google,” triggering the company’s Assistant. You order food, the digital helper handles the transaction and makes sure it’s ready when you arrive. Right now, Amazon.com Inc. and its Alexa digital assistant are closer to realizing that goal, having cut ...

Bloomberg Robots are everywhere. They’re stocking shelves, pruning trees, making cocktails, delivering room service. Now they’re even showing up for work in some of the smallest factories, in a boost for manufacturing in the US and a potential new threat to traditional production-line jobs. The robotics wave began sweeping into automobile and other plants decades ago, stopping short of shops ...

Bloomberg This year has been a big one for the technology sector, and now we’re getting data on just how quickly investors are piling into this already crowded area of the equity market. Investors ranging from institutional accounts to retail clients plowed about $1 billion into tech stocks during the past week, pus-hing inflows to the highest annualized pace in ...