Category Archives: Business

Senators are meeting with Silicon Valley’s elite to learn how to deal with AI. But can Congress tackle the rapidly emerging tech before working on itself?

Chinese artificial intelligence startups say uncertain regulation, chip shortages, and a slowing economy will make it tough to compete.

For environmentalists, hybrid vehicles can feel like a compromise. But demand for hybrid pickup trucks is surging—and they may be the greenest practical option.

State and local governments in the US are scrambling to harness tools like ChatGPT to unburden their bureaucracies, rushing to write their own rules—and avoid generative AI’s many pitfalls.

The tech giant is 25 years old. In a chatbot war. On trial for antitrust. But its CEO says Google is good for 25 more.

In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners.

Meta says it will retire Facebook’s “news” tag in the UK, France, and Germany, ahead of rules that might force it to pay for content. Users may not care, but it has left media scrambling.

European politicians are nervous about where TikTok’s data goes. The company is spending big on local data centers, but analysts say it’s not enough.

Google’s search dominance is going on trial in the biggest US antitrust case since a crackdown on Big Tech that started in 2019.

A new US government body would force companies to seek a license before working on powerful AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4, under a bipartisan proposal by senators Richard Blumenthal and Josh Hawley.