Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s $226 million pay package in 2022 has ignited controversy among employees following the tech giant’s aggressive cost-cutting measures, including the elimination of 12,000 jobs and reductions in employee services.
A former OpenAI researcher, Paul Christiano, has expressed serious concerns about the potential risk that AI poses to humanity, estimating a 10-20 percent chance of an AI takeover resulting in a high number of human fatalities. According to Christiano, if AI reaches “human level” thinking, the human race approaches “a 50/50 chance of doom.”
Paula Canny, the defense attorney for Nima Momeni, the suspect in last month’s murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee, blamed the victim for his death, pointing out that the tech executive had drugs in his system at the time and was therefore probably acting like a “drug person.”
Microsoft Chief Economist Michael Schwarz is warning that AI could lead to “bad actors” meddling in elections or creating spam.
Geoffrey Hinton, the 75-year-old renowned AI pioneer, has provided more insight into his recent resignation from Google over concerns relating to the potential risks arising from advancements in the field of AI and popular chatbots like ChatGPT.
Elon Musk has warned that he may transfer NPR’s Twitter account to another user, escalating the ongoing conflict between the Twitter and Tesla CEO and media organizations since he acquired the social media platform in October.
A report by Lee Fang, a former journalist for the Intercept, states that the FBI is pressuring Facebook and other social media platforms to censor “disinformation” at the behest of Ukrainian officials — even when the information is not false.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) detailed on Breitbart News Daily how the bill she and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) unveiled Tuesday would crack down on big tech’s danger to children.
Shares in education tech company Chegg have plummeted by nearly 50 percent after the company admitted that AI chatbot ChatGPT has impacted its financial performance.
Pornhub has disabled access to its website for users located in Utah in response to the state’s recently enacted law mandating age verification for online porn providers.
A technical glitch in Facebook’s advertising system led to customers being overcharged, sparking concerns about the company’s transparency in managing advertising budgets and campaign optimization.
Dallas Mavericks owner, billionaire investor, and noted leftist Mark Cuban has publicly criticized Twitter’s new subscription protocol, Twitter Blue, specifically for Elon Musk’s handling of verified accounts and monetization strategy.
Renowned AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has quit his job at Google to voice his concerns about the risks associated with generative AI, the technology behind popular chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Bard.
Tusk, a web browser created as a non-woke alternative to pro-censorship browsers from Google and DuckDuckGo, has released a modified AI chatbot technology that promotes conservative values and free-speech advocacy.
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, recently gave up his administrative privileges on the online encyclopedia after a request to review his conduct was brought before the site’s Arbitration Committee, often likened to a supreme court. The request concerned Wales publicly accusing a former member of the Committee of being involved with a paid editing scam without properly vetting the claims beforehand. Wales still retains limited privileges under his “founder” role.
Facebook employees, disgruntled after a long year of layoffs and sluggish growth, are speaking unguardedly about the systemic failures at the company and among its top management.
Privacy-focused search engine Brave has announced that it will now exclusively utilize its own index, eliminating dependence on third-party solutions such as Bing.
Clubhouse, the audio-only social media app that once had major buzz, is set to lay off more than half of its employees as it seeks to adapt to market conditions following the coronavirus pandemic.
Popular crypto exchange Coinbase has issued a fiery challenge against recent SEC allegations and claims that it does not engage in trading unregistered securities. According to Coinbase, allegations from the SEC are based on “superficial and incorrect analogies to products and services offered by others.”
Facebook (now known as Meta) shares reached a 52-week high on Thursday as Mark Zuckerberg explained his company’s return to revenue growth was propelled by the integration of AI into its advertising ecosystem.
E-commerce giant Amazon has warned investors about the decelerating growth in its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), even as the company implements aggressive cost-cutting measures and invests in artificial intelligence.
Apple is venturing further into the health and wellness sector with the development of an AI-powered health coaching service, codenamed Quartz, and the expansion of its health app to include new features aimed at tracking emotions. Tim Cook’s creepy vision of the future includes your iPhone determining your mood based on analyzing your speech, typed words, and other data from their devices.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk is suspected of having a second secret account with the rare and valuable one-letter handle “@e,” which he allegedly took from another user shortly after purchasing the social media platform last year, according to reports.
Facebook’s first-quarter earnings report for 2023 showcased a surge in users and revenue, despite its Reality Labs metaverse unit continuing to struggle with significant losses. The Company’s metaverse division suffered losses of $3.99 billion on revenues of just $339 million.
Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ prison sentence has been delayed. She was supposed to begin her 11-year prison sentence on Thursday, but she has dodged prison once again thanks to an appeal filed against her conviction.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship, the world’s largest rocket, faced its first-ever fully stacked test flight last week from the company’s Starbase facility in South Texas, leading to significant damage to the launch pad and raising concerns about the dust and debris created in the surrounding communities.
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has taken a decisive step to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of video gaming powerhouse Activision Blizzard, dealing a significant blow to the American tech giant.
A Utah family is holding Twitter accountable for not taking timely action in a case involving their 13-year-old son, who was kidnapped by a pervert who first groomed him on the social media platform.
Microsoft will report its earnings today, amid a dramatic shift in perceptions of the company due to its multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI, developers of the market-leading ChatGPT AI chatbot. However, Microsoft also has sluggish growth in its cloud business and steep declines in desktop PC purchases to contend with.
Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has inadvertently revealed an alternative Twitter account where he tweets as his two-year-old son, X Æ A-12.
Google’s ambitious 80-acre “Downtown West” campus project has been put on hold indefinitely as the tech giant faces its most severe cost cuts in its history, leaving San Jose’s downtown area in limbo.
Elon Musk’s Twitter inadvertently gave a gold verification badge to a Disney parody account that tweets explicit language and racial slurs.
In a bizarre turn of events, Twitter has reinstated blue checkmarks for numerous celebrities without their consent, raising ethical and legal questions over the verification process.
A cacophony of wrath has marked Twitter over the past few days, as the platform’s legacy system of blue “verified” checkmarks, given to handpicked users, was retired in favor of a new system open to all users willing to pay a subscription fee.
Oracle, an international technology giant known for its cloud and enterprise products, has cut ties with the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), the UK-based, State Department-funded group that advised advertisers to blacklist conservative media.
Elon Musk has blinked in the face of controversy, removing the “government-funded” label from the Twitter accounts of multiple media organizations — including NPR and the CBC — after the media organizations threatened to leave the platform.
Elon Musk’s business empire is facing troubled times as Tesla’s disappointing first-quarter results, the SpaceX rocket explosion, and Twitter’s chaos have led to a decline in hypermaster Musk’s net worth.
Tech giant Apple has been accused of stealing technology from smaller companies by more than two dozen executives, inventors, investors, and lawyers. Incredibly, Apple claims it is the victim. A spokesperson said, “The truth is, these companies are blatantly copying our products or stifling competition by using invalid patents.”
Google’s unreleased Bard AI chatbot received highly negative feedback from its own employees during testing, raising concerns about the company’s approach to AI ethics as it competes with OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT.
A U.S.-based employee of ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, told an undercover Project Veritas journalist that he is sure a lot of TikTok’s coding is “very beneficial to China,” and said the Washington, D.C. team works “directly with the FBI” to “take down” people like Andrew Tate.
