Two years ago big tech embarked on a repentance tour to Davos in response to criticism about the companies’ role in issues such as election interference; spreading misinformation; the distribution of extremist content...
“AI is one of the most profound things we’re working on as humanity. It’s more profound than fire or electricity,” Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai said in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Amazon.com Inc. asked a court to temporarily block Microsoft Corp. from working on a $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract until a lawsuit challenging its validity is resolved.
Alphabet Inc.’s chief executive officer urged the U.S. and European Union to coordinate regulatory approaches on artificial intelligence, calling their alignment “critical.”
IBM called for rules aimed at eliminating bias in artificial intelligence to ease concerns that the technology relies on data that bakes in past discriminatory practices and could harm women, minorities, the disabled...
“All you are doing is increasing transaction costs for everybody if you completely separate,” Nadella said in an interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at Bloomberg’s The Year Ahead conference...
Similar issues have been raised over Google and Apple Inc.’s digital assistants, triggering privacy fears across the world. EU regulators are now working on a common approach on how to police the technology.
Microsoft Corp. unveiled plans to invest $1 billion to back companies and organizations working on technologies to remove or reduce carbon from the earth’s atmosphere, saying efforts to merely emit less carbon aren’t...
The NSA chose to publicly share that it had found the flaw -- a break from past protocol when information about how vulnerabilities were discovered wasn’t made public -- in order to build trust and encourage patching.
