Microsoft said on Monday that it is making a “multiyear, multibillion-dollar” investment in OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial intelligence lab behind the experimental online chatbot ChatGPT.The companies did not disclose […]
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Back to news homeTech Layoffs Continue as Shares Fall and Interest Rates Rise
“High rates are painful for almost everyone, but they are particularly painful for Silicon Valley,” said Kairong Xiao, an associate professor of finance at Columbia Business School. “I expect more […]
Spotify to Lay Off 6% of Its Work Force
Spotify, the audio streaming platform, is laying off 6 percent of its work force, or about 600 employees, joining a growing list of big tech companies that are cutting costs […]
Tech Layoffs Shock Young Workers. The Older People? Not So Much.
“This is a gift,” Mr. Pulliam said. “I don’t think that story is told. It’s always doom and gloom.”But for tech workers experiencing their first economic downturn, the cuts have […]
Google Calls In Larry Page and Sergey Brin to Tackle ChatGPT and A.I. Chatbots
But they have long been keen on bringing A.I. into Google’s products. Vic Gundotra, a former senior vice president at Google, recounted that he gave Mr. Page a demonstration of […]
Supreme Court Poised to Reconsider Key Tenets of Online Speech
Partisanship has made the logjam worse. Republicans, some of whom have accused Facebook, Twitter and other sites of censoring them, have pressured the platforms to leave more content up. In […]
Microsoft to Lay Off 10,000 Workers as It Looks to Trim Costs
Microsoft on Wednesday became the latest addition to a growing list of big technology companies to lay off employees because of worries about the economy and overhiring during the pandemic.The […]
Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach
While grading essays for his world religions course last month, Antony Aumann, a professor of philosophy at Northern Michigan University, read what he said was easily “the best paper in […]
Auburn Banned TikTok, and Students Can’t Stop Talking About It
One former sorority sister at Auburn, for example, “did a new TikTok dance every day promoting Auburn Zeta Tau Alpha so people would see how much fun she was having […]
Bob Jordan, Southwest Airlines’ CEO, on What Went Wrong
Your unions say that for years, Southwest has been too focused on investors and hasn’t invested enough in the operation. What’s your response to that criticism?I’ve been asked a lot […]