Internet retail giant Amazon is closing eight of its Amazon Go convenience stores in San Francisco, Seattle, and New York City, amid wider cuts in the tech giant’s brick-and-mortar stores. Several of the stores are located in Seattle’s troubled downtown district where crime and open-air drug use are crowding out big business.
The personal information of “hundreds” of lawmakers and staff in the House of Representatives, as well as some Senators and staffers, has been compromised by a data breach at DC Health Link, an online health insurance marketplace.
Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes is sounding the alarm about politically motivated ad blacklisting, saying partisan ad boycotts are robbing Trump’s social media platform of revenue.
Sony is asking antitrust enforces in the United Kingdom to either force Microsoft to sell off Activision’s flagship video game title Call of Duty, or veto its proposed acquisition of Activision-Blizzard, as the tech giant continues to face scrutiny over the effect that the proposed merger would have on competition.
The FTC is going after journalists who were given access to the Twitter Files, demanding a list of names of journalists who Twitter granted access to, as part of the agency’s increasingly aggressive approach against the platform.
Following the 2016 election, a broad consensus emerged between the Democrats and their aligned institutions, the deep state, and tech companies in Silicon Valley that narratives undermining the progressive worldview had to be suppressed across all mediums.
China-owned TikTok is trouncing its competitors in in-app purchases (IAPs), generating more revenue in the fourth quarter of 2022 than its top four competitors combined.
Researchers at Cornell University were able to convert Microsoft’s Bing AI into a scammer that requests compromising information from users, including their name, address, and credit card information.
The Parrots Go Bananas, a children’s book authored by former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, is not appearing in Amazon searches despite going live on the site two days ago, the book’s publisher tells Breitbart News.
Louisiana State University (LSU) was forced to issue a statement after the college’s star gymnast, Olivia Dunne, posted a TikTok video promoting the use of Caktus AI, a cheating tool that promises to “automate all of your school work.”
Microsoft seems to be preparing for the next iteration of the Windows operating system, which will have a strong focus on AI, according to the Verge. While the next version, Windows 12, has not been announced yet, Intel is reportedly planning for the next generation CPUs that will support the new operating system.
Following a frenzy of media stories about the new power of generative AI technologies such as Microsoft-backed ChatGPT and AI image generators like Stable Diffusion, investors are pouring money into the burgeoning industry.
There has been a new twist in an ongoing, multibillion-dollar patent battle between Intel and semiconductor patent holder VLSI , with anonymous allegations being mailed to the House Oversight Committee regarding Intel’s interactions with the Patent Trial Appeals Board (PTAB).
The Global Disinformation Index (GDI), one of the many “disinformation trackers,” is having a bad month, with scandal after scandal rocking the online censorship pusher. In the latest allegation, leftist journalist Anne Applebaum claims that GDI is itself guilty of misinformation, inaccurately listing her as an advisor on its website.
Axel Springer, the international media conglomerate based in Germany, has warned that journalism may be “simply replaced” by AI. The warning came as the company slashed an undisclosed number of jobs, as it aims to improve its annual results by over $100 million in three years.
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has announced the markup of bills aimed at preventing the government from colluding with private companies to censor American citizens.
Scientists at John Hopkins University are working on research to enable AI to be constructed using human brain cells, arguing that the use of organic materials is more efficient than traditional computing systems.
U.S. Representatives Ken Buck (R-CO) and David Cicilline (D-RI) today sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg inquiring whether it’s a good idea to allow users as young as 13 on its Horizon Worlds metaverse platform, arguing Facebook has harmed youth mental health in the past.
Microsoft continues to double down on AI, adding its AI-powered Bing search engine to new Windows computers despite stories about its deranged responses to user inputs.
Signal, the encrypted messaging app, has said it would exit the United Kingdom if a major piece of internet regulation set to be passed in the country compromises its ability to offer end-to-end encryption to its users.
The ongoing controversy over the decision by Puffin, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, to censor new editions of Roald Dahl books has taken another dystopian twist, with owners of Roald Dahl ebooks reporting that their copies have been automatically updated to the new, woke versions.
The Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a “disinformation tracking” organization backed by the U.S. state department, pushed major advertisers to boycott websites that promoted the theory that the coronavirus outbreak was caused by a leak from a laboratory — a theory that is now endorsed by the U.S. government.
Slack, the instant messaging platform mainly used as an online workspace, has told Chaya Raichik, creator of the viral “Libs of TikTok” account, that she can no longer use their service.
This week we examined the field of Machine Learning Fairness, which seeks to imprint AI programs with leftist assumptions and priorities. Following the money behind the leading organizations of ML Fairness leads to some familiar funding sources, including leftist billionaires Pierre Omidyar, George Soros, and Reid Hoffman.
The Supreme Court heard arguments today in Twitter v. Taamneh, a case seeking to hold Twitter responsible for aiding and abetting terrorism because terrorists have been able to use the platform.
As eerily human-like AI chatbots exploded into the public consciousness, so too have highly publicized examples of their political bias. Why do AI programs, Microsoft-funded ChatGPT in particular, seem to think like radical Democrat activists? The answer may lie in a obscure academic field that is rapidly rising in prominence. Its name is Machine Learning Fairness, and it is to computer science what critical race theory is to the rest of academia.
The Supreme Court heard arguments today in the first case challenging critical protections for tech companies under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to be argued before the high court.
Following numerous stories exposing the political bias of ChatGPT, it seems like the Microsoft-backed machine learning wunderkind created by OpenAI has been adjusted to be more receptive to conservative viewpoints — but the program’s response to prompts still heavily favor the left.
A federal judge issued an injunction blocking enforcement of New York’s “Hateful Conduct Law” seeking to regulate “hate speech” on social media platforms, ruling that the law is a violation of the First Amendment, which prevents the U.S. government from regulating the speech of its citizens.
An economist who predicted in 2013 that nearly half of all jobs in the U.S. were under threat from “computerization” is now saying that AI programs like ChatGPT could be as disruptive to the labor market as Uber was for taxis.
Jim Baker, the controversial former FBI counsel who served as deputy general counsel for Twitter between 2020 and 2022, testified at a hearing of the House Oversight Committee today alongside former Twitter executives, to answer for the platform’s politically partisan censorship in the runup to the 2020 election.
The 1792 exchange, a new nonprofit seeking to counter the rise of “woke capitalism” and the leftist trend of Environmental, Social, and corporate Governance (ESG), the umbrella strategy for pushing progressive agendas into corporate boardrooms, has compiled an index of over 1,000 companies to evaluate their political biases.
Prof. Adam Candeub, who led the National Telecommunications and Information Administration under President Trump where he was tasked with overseeing efforts to combat Big Tech censorship, is warning that an upcoming case before the U.S. Supreme Court risks strengthening Big Tech’s legal defense for censorship.
Harvard University has quietly ended its “misinformation” research program, giving the boot to director Dr. Joan Donovan, who cast doubt on the Hunter Biden “Laptop from Hell” story.
At the World Economic Forum, the annual gathering of globalist elites in Davos, Switzerland, a presentation hyped brain wave monitoring technology to allow employers to detect how hard their employees are working, whether they get distracted, and even if they have “amorous feelings” for coworkers.
Tech giant Google is asking its employees to test various potential ChatGPT competitors in a scramble to catch up to the AI software, which analysts say has the potential to significantly disrupt the internet search market.
Republican senators and members of congress, along with former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, are taking AT&T’s DirecTV platform to task for kicking off the conservative news channel Newsmax.
ChatGPT, the AI chatbot created by Microsoft-funded Open AI, is once again displaying its political bias, responding to prompts asking it to praise Joe Biden but refusing to do so for former president Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
The Department of Justice is seeking documents related to the self-driving feature in Tesla cars, the electric automaker revealed in filings today.
The latest batch of the Twitter Files shows that senior officials at the company, including the much-maligned Yoel Roth, were shocked at false allegations that American and British users of the platform were part of Russian influence operations.
