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The Biden administration has launched a consortium of over 200 major tech companies, academic institutions, and research groups to collaborate on developing ethical guidelines and safety standards for AI technology. Biden’s “AI Safety Institute Consortium” claims it has the goal of developing ways to “mitigate AI risks and harness its potential.”

Google’s Threat Analysis Group claims to have uncovered a series of government-backed hacking operations that exploited previously unknown vulnerabilities in Apple’s iPhone OS, using spyware allegedly developed by Barcelona-based startup Variston.

eBay joins other tech giants in massive layoffs, announcing the dismissal of 1,000 employees, which constitutes nine percent of its full-time workforce.

Top executives from major AI organizations including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Cohere gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss the imminent approach of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and its potential impacts. One CEO explained that AGI will be “better than humans at pretty much whatever humans can do.”

Google is reportedly boosting nonsense AI-generated articles that are ripping off other outlets on its Google News service. If Google is not purposefully clogging the internet with AI’s garbage content, it is a sign that the company’s black box algorithms can be gamed by scheming profiteers.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced further job cuts as part of the company’s strategy to meet “ambitious goals” in the coming year. Another chunk of the company’s notoriously leftist employee population will soon be looking for new jobs.

A new study claims that Google’s advanced AI chatbot has demonstrated superior diagnostic abilities and empathy compared to board-certified primary-care physicians in simulated medical scenarios.

Discord, the popular messaging and video calling platform, has announced a significant reduction in its workforce, laying off 17 percent of its staff in a strategic move to streamline operations.

The evolving landscape of artificial intelligence in journalism and content creation has sparked a heated debate, with media outlets accusing AI companies of unfairly leveraging their content. Now, legislation may be on the way to regulate the space.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has announced a series of layoffs, impacting hundreds of employees across its Voice Assistant, hardware, and central engineering teams as part of a new cost-reduction strategy.

Ofcom, the UK’s broadcasting regulator has been hiring top staff from Big Tech firms as it prepares to enforce the Online Safety Act.

The Abu Dhabi Technological Innovation Institute (TII) announced on Monday that it will open a new research center in Haifa, Israel, headed by a former Amazon executive named Yoelle Maarek.

Security experts at CloudSEK have reportedly identified a new form of malware that exploits third-party cookies, allowing unauthorized access to Google accounts without the need for passwords.

Google’s AI unit, DeepMind, has reportedly rolled out a “Robot Constitution” aiming to govern AI behaviors and ensure human safety.

Google has reportedly launched a new data collection project, hiring a contractor to gather facial recognition data from children, offering $50 to parents for their child’s participation.

A recent study by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has revealed that social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok X/Twitter, and YouTube collectively earned nearly $11 billion in advertising revenue from U.S. users under 18 in 2022. The study found that the social media Masters of the Universe earned $2.1 billion by showing ads to children under 12.

Google has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit accusing the tech giant of collecting data from users of its Chrome browser’s Incognito mode. Incognito mode is supposedly a private browsing mode, but Google gathers significant data from users who mistakenly believe the Masters of the Universe will respect their privacy.

Tech giants including Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and Google have slashed their funding of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in 2023 by up to 90 percent as the tech sector faces a tightening budget under the Biden economy.

Parler, a social media platform favored by conservatives that shut down earlier in 2023, is gearing up for a 2024 revival under new ownership.

Google’s foray into generative AI has led to significant changes in its advertising division, including replacing humans in ad sales jobs with AI systems.

The New York Post details in a recent report how Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have remained notably absent from recent landmark antitrust trials involving their company.

Google has agreed to pay $700 million and implement minor changes to its app store practices, resolving an antitrust lawsuit with all 50 U.S. states.

Artificial intelligence (AI) resume screening systems used by major companies may be discriminating against mothers, researchers believe.

Apps that use AI to generate images — popularly known as deepfakes — making clothed women appear to be naked are reportedly soaring in popularity.

Wendy’s is implementing AI powered by Google to take customers’ drive-thru orders. The company claims that the AI system will not just take orders, claiming, “It’s a personalized, responsive experience for every customer.”

Epic Games, the company behind the popular video game Fortnite, has defeated Google in its antitrust case accusing the Masters of the Universe of maintaining an app store monopoly, marking a pivotal moment in the ongoing scrutiny of Big Tech’s monopolistic practices.

Google’s latest AI system, dubbed “Project Ellmann,” is designed to deeply integrate with users’ personal data across various devices and apps. Silicon Valley has shown it is intent on using every means possible to pry personal data out of its users to in turn sell targeted advertisements.

Google recently acknowledged that certain elements of its demonstration video for the Gemini AI, a competitor to OpenAI’s new GPT-4, were staged, raising questions about the actual abilities of the internet giant’s latest artificial intelligence system.

McDonald’s is set to partner with Google, implementing generative AI technologies to optimize its food service operations and deliver “hotter, fresher food.” Google, which has based its entire company on surveillance capitalism, is likely quite keen to learn about customer habits in the restaurant.

Apple has recently admitted to secretly supplying governments around the world with data related to push notifications from its devices. The data provided goes beyond the display text of notifications that users see to backend directives to individual apps.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, X.AI, has filed with the SEC to raise up to $1 billion through an equity offering.

Google has postponed the launch of its next-generation AI model, Gemini, to January 2024, initially teased at its I/O 2023 event as a formidable competitor to OpenAI’s GPT-4. The internet giant continues to lag behind the developer of ChatGPT in the generative AI arena.

Google has recently issued an update for Chrome across Mac, Linux, and Windows platforms to address a critical zero-day security vulnerability, marking the sixth such flaw in the popular browser this year.

Newly leaked documents have revealed a secretive initiative by U.S. and UK military contractors to establish a global censorship framework in 2018, according to a new report by journalists behind the Twitter Files.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) took to X/Twitter on Friday to reveal that internal emails show the Government Affairs teams at Google and its YouTube subsidiary had acknowledged that they were “seeking to work closely with the Biden administration on multiple policy fronts.”

The Biden White House worked with Google-owned YouTube to censor American speech regarding the coronavirus and vaccine, according to the House Judiciary Committee.