Google co-founder Sergey Brin is urging employees working on artificial intelligence to spend at least 60 hours per week in the office as the search giant faces heated competition from OpenAI, Meta, Elon Musk’s xAI and China-based DeepSeek. Brin, who is worth $144 billion, told AI workers in a memo that the longer hours are … Read more
The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Alphabet on Thursday seeking its communications with former President Joe Biden’s administration about content moderation policies. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, a Republican, also asked the YouTube parent company for similar communications with companies and groups outside government, according to a copy of the subpoena seen by Reuters. The subpoena … Read more
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a “careless” executive who sought to convince China to let his company to operate on the mainland by helping it develop censorship tools and bolster its artificial intelligence capabilities — all the while concealing those efforts from Congress, according to a new memoir. Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Meta employee who … Read more
Skype will ring for the last time on May 5 as owner Microsoft retires the two-decade-old internet calling service that redefined how people connect across borders. Shutting down Skype will help Microsoft focus on its homegrown Teams service by simplifying its communication offerings, the software giant said on Friday. Founded in 2003, Skype’s audio and video calls quickly disrupted the … Read more
Unwanted phone calls are out of control. Whether it’s a robocall trying to sell you something or spam calls from scammers trying to rip you off, it’s enough to make you want to stop answering your phone. So what can you do to stop them? The scourge of unwanted phone calls has been branded an … Read more
The Democrat-backing multimillionaire founder of a “climate-friendly banking” startup — whose celebrity investors included Leonardo DiCaprio, Orlando Bloom and Drake — was arrested by federal authorities this week for allegedly conspiring to defraud investors. Joseph Neal Sanberg, a 45-year-old Orange County, Calif. resident who billed himself as an “anti-poverty advocate,” was taken into custody on … Read more
Elon Musk has lost his bid to block Sam Altman from transforming OpenAI into a for-profit entity – but a federal judge signaled Tuesday that she could expedite a trial to consider other elements of his antitrust case against the ChatGPT creator. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said Musk and his fellow plaintiffs had … Read more
Sam Altman’s OpenAI released GPT-4.5, an upgraded version of the artificial intelligence model that powers ChatGPT, to select users on Thursday as it looks to stave off challenges from rivals like Elon Musk’s xAI. Described as OpenAI’s “largest and best model for chat yet,” GPT-4.5 was initially made available as a “research preview” for a … Read more
Google Chrome users have been warned to delete 16 “malicious” browser extensions that could lead to a security threat and “fraud” at the hands of a prolific “threat actor.” The extensions affect functionality involving screen capture, ad blocking, emoji keyboards and more, with a potential impact on at least 3.2 million users, according to GitLab … Read more
Come again? A company has launched a sex doll that has the ability to comfort men if they suffer premature ejaculation. Made by Chinese company WMDoll, the dolls have a new AI feature called MetaBox that allows them to speak. Designed to satisfy the user’s emotions, the doll can comfort men who may climax quickly. Rather than acting disappointed, the lusty … Read more