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A severe internet outage that has hit several African countries - the third disruption in four months - is a stark reminder of how vulnerable the service is on the continent.Questions are being asked about how the reliability of what has…

Ilya Sutskever has announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he's leaving OpenAI almost a decade after he co-founded the company. He's confident that OpenAI "will build that is both safe and beneficial" under the leadership of CEO…

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says AI will hit the job market "like a tsunami.""We have very little time to get people ready for it, businesses ready for it," she said on Monday.In January, Georgieva predicted that AI will affect roughly…

By Jeffrey Dastin and James PomfretMOUNTAIN VIEW/HONG KONG (Reuters) -Alphabet's YouTube on Tuesday said it would comply with a court decision and block access inside Hong Kong to 32 video links deemed prohibited content, in what critics…

At I/O 2024, Google’s teaser for gave us a glimpse at where AI assistants are going in the future. It’s a multi-modal feature that combines the smarts of Gemini with the kind of image recognition abilities you get in Google Lens, as well…

Mark Zuckerberg's 40th birthday bash featured recreations of his old bedrooms.Bill Gates, in a black hoodie, hung out in a replica of Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room.Gates and Zuckerberg both dropped out of Harvard to pursue their own…

By Fanny Potkin and Eduardo BaptistaSINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) - Two Chinese chipmakers are in the early stages of producing high bandwidth memory (HBM) semiconductors used in artificial intelligence chipsets, according to sources and…

By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) -A group of TikTok creators said Tuesday they filed suit in U.S. federal court seeking to block a law signed by President Joe Biden that would force the divestiture of the short video app used by 170…

We just wrapped up coverage on Google's I/O 2024 keynote, and we're just so tired of hearing about AI. In this bonus episode, Cherlynn and Devindra dive into the biggest I/O news: Google's intriguing Project Astra AI assistant; new models…

The increasingly discriminatory X (Twitter) now considers the term “cisgender” a slur. Owner Elon Musk posted last June, to the delight of his bigoted brigade of blue-check sycophants, that “‘cis’ or ‘cisgender’ are considered slurs on this…