Microsoft and Amazon asked to comment on tie-ups, a move that paves way for formal investigationThe UK competition watchdog has stepped up its scrutiny of big tech involvement in artificial intelligence startups, asking for comment on three deals by Microsoft and Amazon.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it was examining Microsoft’s investment in the French firm Mistral and the hiring of the DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman as head of the US company’s new AI division....
This month, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) unveiled a rare government feat: a bipartisan bill that has lawmakers feeling "optimistic" and "fired up." It’s the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA), and it’s long overdue. The U.S. lags far behind the rest of the world on privacy legislation; 137 of the world’s 194 countries have national privacy laws, according to the United Nations. We’re the G-20 outlier without one. This isn’t the kind of “exceptionalism”...
A prosecution witness testifying in Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai’s national security trial has said he lied to the police earlier, including when he told officers he was not a member of Stand With Hong Kong, an activist group that urged foreign sanctions on city. Chan Tsz-wah, a paralegal who was charged alongside Lai […]
Big tech share prices were dented by a sector-wide sell-off of risky assets last week, ahead of earnings results for some of the 'Magnificent Seven'.
Experts say tech outages do seem to be happening more often.
Governor JB Pritzker (D-IL) said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that he was concerned about a presidential debate because former President Donald Trump "lies and lies and lies." | Clips
Sen. Risa Hontiveros yesterday urged the Philippine National Police to step up its search for fugitive Apollo Quiboloy, who is the subject of three arrest warrants.
Two advocacy groups met this month with local school officials to discuss the functions of the Charleston County School District (CCSD) Board of Trustees and student academic performance.
TikTok’s general counsel is stepping down to focus on fighting a pending U.S. ban. Erich Andersen, who is also general counsel for TikTok parent ByteDance, will leave that role in June and become special counsel to the company, according to an announcement Friday (April 26), two days after a law banning TikTok in the U.S. was signed. In his […]
Australian tech billionaire Scott Farquhar has announced he will step down as head of Atlassian, 23 years after he founded the software start-up alongside university classmate Mike Cannon-Brookes. Mr Cannon-Brookes will continue as the company’s sole chief executive, Atlassian announced in a letter to shareholders early on Friday morning AEST. Mr Farquhar will take up […]
Bob Bakish stepped down from his role as the CEO of Paramount Global on
Bibee made it through seven innings on 91 pitches. Vogt was ready to send him back out to the mound for the eighth when the Guardians plated two runs in in the top half of the frame, causing Bibee to sit in the dugout longer than Vogt would’ve liked if he was going to go