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.
Economy Dec 18 Twitter bans linking to Facebook, Instagram, other rival platforms Twitter users will no longer be able to link to certain rival social media websites, including what the company described Sunday as “prohibited platforms” Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon.
Nation Dec 16 Journalists who wrote about owner Elon Musk suspended from Twitter Accounts of reporters with The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and other publications, went dark Thursday.
Nation Dec 13 Musk's Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety advisory group The advisory group of around 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations was formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform.