Microsoft’s links with OpenAI to be examined by competition watchdog
The Competition and Markets Authority will consider if links between the two could be considered a merger.
The Competition and Markets Authority will consider if links between the two could be considered a merger.
ROME—Elon Musk and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have formed one of 2023’s more unlikely trans-Atlantic alliances. Behind their budding friendship lie common interests in political issues such as immigration and demographics, as well as in tech-sector regulation and the risks associated with artificial intelligence. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved….
Fickle bosses can be tough. Doubly so when they’re also the richest person on the planet. So when Elon Musk’s newest underling officially started on the job December 8, The Times was eager to hear its take on the polarizing tech mogul. Enter: Grok. An artificial intelligence chatbot that Musk recently launched on X, the…
Bob Lee, a pioneer of financial technology who created the mobile payment platform Cash App, was stabbed to death in San Francisco on Tuesday, his family said. He was 43. San Francisco police said in a statement that officers were called regarding a stabbing at around 2:35 a.m. in the city’s downtown area, where they…
Over the weekend, a photo of Pope Francis looking dapper in a white puffer jacket went mega-viral on social media. The 86-year-old sitting pontiff, it appeared, has some serious drip. But there was just one problem: The image is not real. It was made using the AI art tool Midjourney. As word spread across the…
The Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, Jan. 30, 2023. Marlena Sloss | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google cut several hundred jobs across the company late Wednesday night as it continues to push for efficiency and focus on its “biggest product priorities,” a spokesperson confirmed to CNBC. The layoffs will impact employees within Google’s hardware…
Updated Jan. 11, 2024 10:51 am ET We get it. Turning on two-factor authentication for your online accounts can be a pain. But like going to the dentist, it’s just something you have to do. On Tuesday, someone broke into the Securities and Exchange Commission’s official X account and tweeted that spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds had been…