Science May 30 Artificial intelligence raises risk of extinction, experts warn The statement posted online Tuesday says that "mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."…
Politics May 15 WATCH: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee “As this technology advances, we understand that people are anxious about how it could change the way we live. We are too," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified at a Senate hearing Tuesday.
Economy May 11 Elon Musk says he’s found a new CEO to lead Twitter The Tesla billionaire said in a tweet Thursday that his role will transition to being Twitter's executive chairman and chief technology officer.
Politics Apr 27 Microsoft’s ‘good guy’ approach with governments frays in Activision Blizzard battle Microsoft's charm offensive with the world's governments is starting to lose some of its luster as the software giant is confronting its toughest antitrust scrutiny since co-founder Bill Gates was in charge.
Nation Apr 21 Removal of blue checks from high-profile accounts sows confusion on Twitter When the Elon Musk-owned platform started stripping blue verification check marks this week from accounts that don't pay a monthly fee, it left public agencies and other organizations around the world scrambling to figure out a way to show they're trustworthy and…
Science Mar 31 Italy temporarily blocks ChatGPT over privacy concerns The Italian Data Protection Authority said it was taking provisional action “until ChatGPT respects privacy,” including temporarily limiting the company from processing Italian users' data.
Science Jan 23 Microsoft announces major investment in artificial intelligence startup OpenAI Microsoft says it is making a “multiyear, multibillion dollar investment” in the artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and other tools that can generate readable text, images and computer code.
Economy Jan 18 Microsoft cuts 10,000 jobs globally, about 5 percent of workforce Microsoft is cutting 10,000 workers, almost 5% of its workforce, as it joins other tech companies in a scaling back of their pandemic-era expansions.
Economy Jan 03 Video game testers form Microsoft’s 1st U.S. labor union A group of video game testers is forming Microsoft's first labor union in the U.S. It will also be the largest union in the video game industry.
Nation Dec 19 Twitter poll closes, majority of users vote for Musk to step down as CEO More than half of 17.5 million users who responded to a Twitter poll created by billionaire Elon Musk over whether he should step down as head of the company had voted yes by the time the poll closed.