
The Hill - 2 hours 22 min ago
Meta informed staff this week it will cut 10 percent of workers as it invests billions into artificial intelligence products. The memo, sent Thursday by Meta's Chief People Office Janelle Gale, said the cut will take place on May 20, and 6,000 open roles will be closed. The memo was published by Bloomberg and the...

Tech Meme - 6 hours 13 min ago
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC : Alibaba says its Qwen AI models will be integrated into BYD, Volkswagen, and other cars, letting users buy food and tickets via voice commands on select models — BEIJING — Chinese tech giant Alibaba said Friday that its Qwen artificial intelligence model will be integrated into vehicles …...

ABC News - 8 hours 51 min ago
DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup that shook up world markets last year, has launched preview versions of its latest major update...

NPR - 11 hours 12 min ago
The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies' exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models, singling out China at a time that country is narrowing the gap with the U.S. in the AI race.

Tech Meme - 11 hours 21 min ago
Bloomberg : DeepSeek releases its new flagship models V4 Pro and V4 Flash in preview, saying V4 Pro trails the performance of state-of-the-art models by about 3 to 6 months — DeepSeek rolled out preview versions of a new flagship artificial intelligence model a year after upending Silicon Valley …...

Sky News - 11 hours 56 min ago
Microsoft and Meta, the company behind Instagram and WhatsApp, are planning to cut big chucks from their respective workforces as spending on artificial intelligence (AI) finds a new high gear.

The Hill - 15 hours 42 min ago
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) warned on Thursday that investments in artificial intelligence could trigger a potential economic crash, drawing parallels to the 2008 financial crisis caused by a collapse in the housing bubble. "The parallels to the 2008 financial crisis are striking: the reckless behavior of a few billionaires and Big Tech CEOs has turned...

ABC News - 15 hours 57 min ago
The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies' exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models, singling out China at a time that country is narrowing the gap with the U.S. in the AI race...

ABC News - 16 hours 1 min ago
The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies' exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models, singling out China at a time that country is narrowing the gap with the U.S. in the AI race...

UPI - 16 hours 57 min ago
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is urging the government to consider adding penalties to the country's artificial intelligence law.

UPI - 17 hours 47 min ago
Meta plans to lay off 10% of its employees worldwide -- about 8,000 people -- and focus on artificial intelligence, an employee memo said Thursday.

Fox News - 18 hours 33 min ago
A Fox News Poll finds most voters see artificial intelligence as a threat to privacy and jobs, driving an overall 54% unfavorable opinion of AI.

Daily Signal - 19 hours 17 min ago
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL The Commerce Department has tapped a new director for the government's safety-centered artificial intelligence organization, sources familiar with the matter tell The Daily Signal. Collin Burns, a former researcher at Anthropic and OpenAI, will lead the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation. Burns is the co-author of a paper...

New York Times - 20 hours 4 min ago
Microsoft and other big tech companies are on a spending spree to build the infrastructure for artificial intelligence.

NPR - 20 hours 23 min ago
The cuts follow losses in two pivotal court cases and the company's push to invest in artificial intelligence.

The Hill - 20 hours 45 min ago
The White House on Thursday accused foreign entities, primarily China, of running "industrial-scale" campaigns to distill frontier artificial intelligence models from US companies. Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, wrote in a memo Thursday that the U.S. government has learned Chinese entities are leveraging thousands of proxy accounts and...

Forbes - 21 hours 7 min ago
Here are all the major tech companies that have blamed job cuts on artificial intelligence so far this year.

Variety - 21 hours 8 min ago
+ Grammys on the Hill celebrated its 25 th year of service honoring the champions of the music and creator community on Capitol Hll this week, culminating in a celebration paying tribute to Sen. Chris Coons (D-De.) and Rep. Mar a Elvira Salazar (R-Fl.) for their bipartisan work to protect musicians as artificial intelligence continues to […]...

NBC News - 21 hours 26 min ago
If plants could talk, what would they say? That's what students at Spelman College are finding out with their project PlantGPT. The device uses artificial intelligence that lets you have conversations with your houseplants about their current needs using real-time data. These students hope to bring the device to plant owners and eventually farmers.

The Raw Story - 22 hours 7 min ago
The artificial intelligence boom has been wildly profitable for tech billionaires and catastrophically hollow for everyone else, a new Mother Jones report said this week. Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman have built fortunes on AI hype while delivering false promises, toxic platforms, and minimal actual job creation. According to Mother Jones columnist Tim Murphy's investigation, "The AI bubble has been a boon to the portfolios and prospects of the tech world's biggest...

Variety - 22 hours 9 min ago
Meta, parent of Facebook and Instagram, is laying off about 8,000 employees — and eliminating another 6,000 open jobs — as it is in the midst of a companywide shift to artificial intelligence. The job cuts were announced in an internal memo to Meta staffers from the company’s head of HR, Janelle Gale. "We're doing […]...

Tech Meme - 22 hours 25 min ago
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg : OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, designed to handle complex tasks with minimal guidance; the model will be used to power the company's upcoming "super app" — OpenAI is introducing an artificial intelligence model that's intended to be better at completing work without much direction …...

CNBC - 22 hours 25 min ago
Meta will lay off 10% of its workforce, equating to about 8,000 employees, as it continues investing heavily into artificial intelligence.

CNBC - 22 hours 27 min ago
The model is better at coding, using computers and pursuing deeper research capabilities, OpenAI says.