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The U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have reached a deal that allows them to proceed with antitrust investigations into the dominant roles that Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia play in the

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More AI researchers speak out against OpenAI’s safety practices

For months, I’ve been writing about concerns th

More companies are embracing generative artificial intelligence as a part of their road map, and the need for experts to help build that technology is growing exponentially. New data from job posting service, Indeed, shows just how hungry corporate America is for AI workers.

In the past year, Indeed has seen a tenfold increase in the number of generative AI job postings, the company reported Wednesday. Over the past t

E-commerce is booming. Per a report by McKinsey, “e-commerce sales penetration in the United States more than doubled to 35 percent in 2020 from the previous year, roughly the equivalent of ten years of growth.” Since the pandemic, the industry has grown year on year, with Emarketer

When the tech industry describes AI’s role in its products, it hardly chooses language at random. Terms such as assistant and copilot reinforce that the human user remains firmly in charge—a comforting notion for anyone stressed over AI’s loose-cannon tendencies or even the prospect of it eventually rendering humans less essential t

We’re sadly accustomed to Russia interfering in our elections. An October 2023 U.S. government report warned Moscow tried to undermine public confidence in 11 elections across nine democracies between 2020 and 2022. And the country’s disinformation

When the tech industry describes AI’s role in its products, it hardly chooses language at random. Terms such as assistant and copilot reinforce that the human user remains firmly in charge—a comforting notion for anyone stressed over AI’s loose-cannon tendencies or even the prospect of it eventually rendering humans less essential t

Last Christmas Eve, NewsBreak, a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States, published an alarming piece about a small town shooting. It was headlined “Christmas Day Tragedy Strikes Bridgeton, New Jersey Amid Rising Gun Violence in Small Towns.”

The problem was, no such shooting took place. The Bridgeton, New Jersey police department posted a statement on Facebook on December 27 dismissing the article — produced using

On June 7, shareholders of Nvidia will have a significant number of additional shares in their portfolio as the chipmaker enacts a 10-to-1 stock split. It’s an opportunity for the company to make its shares more affordable—and, ideally, to send them on yet another journey to the stratosphere, following its most recent journey which saw its market share come close to Apple’s, threatening

For anyone skeptical about crypto hype, Sheila Warren explains why it’s here to stay and what you might be overlooking. As CEO of the Crypto Council for Innovation, Warren takes us inside today’s crypto resurgence, in which one out of five Americans hold crypto in some fashion. Warren shares the story behind Congress’s recent bipartisan crypto bill, and how the industry is cracking down on bad actors and get-rich-quick schemes. Plus, how crypto is part of the underlying tech behind a “new in