2023-11-17 17:54
US trade restrictions have done little to curb Chinese chip manufacturing
China is stockpiling chipmaking equipment despite the US government's trade restrictions on the export of semiconductor manufacturing equipment to the country.
2023-11-17 14:38
OpenAI jettisons CEO Sam Altman for dishonesty
Sam Altman, a key figure in the creation of landmark generative AI application ChatGPT, has been fired by the OpenAI board of directors over an apparent lack of candor in his communications with the board.
2023-11-17 13:57
Critical zero-day flaws in Windows, Office mean it's time to patch
We are now in the third decade of Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday releases, which deliver fewer critical updates to browsers and Windows platforms — and much more reliable updates to Microsoft Office — than in the early days of patchi
2023-11-17 10:17
Google Workspace tips and tutorials
From its humble origins as a collection of cloud apps known as Gmail for Your Domain, Google’s office suite has greatly expanded and matured over the years. Rebranded multiple times as Google Apps, G Suite, and finally Google Workspace,
2023-11-17 04:00
Microsoft welcomes Biden’s new AI order — is that a good thing or bad?
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. last month laid down a wide-ranging executive order targeting generative AI, dealing with everything from safety and security measures, to issues related to bias and civil rights, and oversight over how genAI i
2023-11-17 03:47
Applied Materials faces probe in the US for shipping chip equipment to China
Applied Materials, the largest US maker of chipmaking machinery, is facing investigations in the US for violating export restrictions to China.
2023-11-16 18:59
Dell cuddles up to Hugging Face to offer genAI to customers
Dell has unveiled a partnership with Hugging Face to help it develop open-source generative AI models for Dell’s infrastructure and customers to use. Through the partnership Dell will provide a pre-packaged AI solution.
2023-11-16 17:18
Meta and ByteDance dispute gatekeeper status of platforms under EU’s DMA
Meta and ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, have launched a challenge against the gatekeeper status designated to them by the European Commission under the EU's Digital Markets Act.
2023-11-16 17:01
Google’s deal with Apple looms large as antitrust trial winds down
The first landmark tech antitrust trial of the century, The United States of America v. Google LLC, is winding down, with the last witness finishing testimony this week. What could be at stake in District Court Judge Amit Mehta's final deci
2023-11-16 16:05
OpenAI's ChatGPT turns one year old; what it did (and didn't do)
When San Francisco startup OpenAI launched ChatGPT on Nov. 30, 2022, the technology landscape was shaken to its core — and artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly moved from being a fringe idea to mainstream adoption.