OpenAI, Microsoft might ignore industry calls to halt AI advancement: As OpenAI continues to aim for a human-level AI with Microsoft’s blessing, industry players are calling foul. Regulation is necessary.
As controversy mounts, Lockheed exits deep-sea mining: By selling its UK Seabed Resources subsidiary, Lockheed may have kneecapped the nascent industry. Expect more focus on lunar and asteroid exploration.
Splitting into six companies makes each business unit more competitive while reducing regulatory oversight, which could help increase profits.
Technology startups are finding it harder to scrounge for backing while investors play it safe in the aftermath of a banking crisis that could put the innovation economy in peril.
Microsoft, Salesforce keep workers happy amid job cuts: The companies earned the distinction of Glassdoor Best Places to Work across five countries. But more layoffs won’t necessarily reduce long-term costs.
Tech’s pace of disruption will tax social systems: Generative AI could create, transform, and eliminate jobs. A net economic and societal benefit will be difficult to achieve without regulation.
A 2022 Aira survey of marketers worldwide found 58.9% already used AI tools to optimize existing content, such as for search or to outshine competitors’ copy. Here are four noteworthy ways ChatGPT and other generative AI tools—such as Anyword, Jasper, Copy.ai, Frase, and Quillbot—might be used to enhance content.
Insurer Zurich is exploring using ChatGPT to improve modeling and claims. The tech has the potential to strengthen customer service, but not all consumers are sold.
Apple leads businesses leaning on China: The brewing tech cold war notwithstanding, companies like Apple need to rely on established supply chains. Continued foreign partnerships are essential to China’s recovery.
Bard is ‘boring’ for a reason: User feedback for Google’s chatbot has been the polar opposite of Microsoft’s Bing. It’s a symptom of a technical hurdle for an immature technology.
Does Apple believe in its headset? Some inside the company aren’t confident about the Reality Pro, and there’s evidence backing the doubt. A pivot to more relevant technologies makes sense.
TikTok is banned from French government phones. The move may accelerate wider government bans of other apps, like Instagram and Twitter.
One of the largest wireless and satellite TV providers stands to lose ground in highly competitive markets if it fails to respond to customers.
Billions of dollars are flowing to generative AI startups: High barriers to entry and a hard road to profitability mean a select few companies will eventually dominate a powerful market.
Chip industry decries anti-pollution legislation: Companies don’t want toxic chemical regulation, but societal fallout might make it necessary. Using quantum computers to discover alternatives is a potential solution.
The FTC wants to stop the seemingly never-ending struggles to cancel unwanted subscription plans for gym memberships, cellular plans, apps, and more.
Big Tech layoffs in 2023 have already blown past 2022’s total—indicating that job cuts are expected to continue and that they’re now spreading to peripheral industries.
The Wall Street lender’s pilot shows the space is maturing and could prompt other banks to launch their own biometric products.
Nvidia could be generative AI’s top beneficiary: It’s making stock market waves because its hardware forms the foundation for the generative AI gold rush. Its reputational risk is growing too.
US losing its status among tech talent globally: International tech workers are finding the US a less attractive destination than other countries. Lack of bipartisan, public-private sector cooperation got us here.