A quality assurance supervisor identified only as Zhou joined a technology company in Hangzhou in November 2022. His job was to work with AI large language models, optimising their outputs and filtering sensitive content. He earned 25,000 yuan per mont…
For the first time in the 25-year history of the World Press Freedom Index, more than half of the world’s countries now fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories for press freedom. The share is 52.2 per cent, up from 13.7 per cent when Rep…
The firm’s new ‘AI productivity gains and the performance paradox’ report concludes that most current AI applications ‘accelerate existing work’ without redesigning workflows, a finding McKinsey is publishing while targeting 1:1 parity between its 40,0…
Thomas Reardon has a pattern. In 1994, he created the project that became Internet Explorer, the browser that turned Microsoft from a software company into an internet company and triggered the most consequential antitrust case in technology history. I…
Meta posted the most profitable quarter in its history and the stock dropped 9 per cent. Revenue rose 33 per cent to $56.31 billion, beating Wall Street’s estimate of $55.49 billion. Net income reached $26.8 billion, up 61 per cent year over year. And …
South Africa’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies spent months drafting a national artificial intelligence policy. It proposed a National AI Commission, an AI Ethics Board, an AI Regulatory Authority, an AI Ombudsperson, a National A…
OpenAI called the report “prime clickbait.” It said its business is “firing on all cylinders.” It issued a joint statement from CEO Sam Altman and CFO Sarah Friar declaring they are “totally aligned.” None of it worked. On Tuesday, after the Wall Stree…
Christopher Gray built Scholly to help students like himself find scholarships. He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, became the first in his family to attend college after winning $1.3 million in scholarships to Drexel University, and turned that experie…
Elon Musk told a federal jury on Tuesday that his lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founders is not about him. “It is not okay to steal a charity, that’s my view,” Musk said from the witness stand in Oakland, California, in his first testimony under oa…
“Ladies and gentlemen, we are here today because the defendants in this case stole a charity.” That was how Steven Molo, Elon Musk’s lead trial lawyer, opened the most consequential technology trial in a generation on Tuesday morning in an Oakland fede…