Kids are assaulting teachers for taking away their phones — here’s why
The year isn’t halfway over, and already 2023 has seen teachers punched in the face, pepper sprayed and even beaten unconscious for attempting to confiscate...
Chegg cuts 4% of staff over ChatGPT crushing business
Struggling online learning platform Chegg disclosed plans to cut about 4% of its workforce — weeks after the company’s CEO admitted that OpenAI’s ChatGPT was...
Google’s ad-tech business facing possible threat of a break-up: report
European Union antitrust regulators may order Alphabet’s Google to sell a part of its advertising-technology business, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday....
Google reportedly faces fresh EU antitrust charges over ad tech policies
European regulators are reportedly set to slap Google parent Alphabet with a fresh antitrust complaint targeting the tech giant’s lucrative digital advertising business. The latest...
FTC to block Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard merger with injunction
The Federal Trade Commission is expected to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of video gaming giant Activision Blizzard with a preliminary injunction. The FTC is...
Elon Musk appears to troll Megan Fox, saying he wants to hire ‘VP of witchcraft and propaganda’
Billionaire Elon Musk appeared to poke fun at Megan Fox on Sunday after the actress referred to herself as a “witch” during a nasty social...
AI gives Google power to ‘dictate’ the news people see: lawsuit
The attorney behind a major class-action lawsuit against Google claims that advances in artificial intelligence give the digital monopoly almost unlimited power to control lives, influence thought...
48-hour Reddit user blackout kicks off, affecting 8K subreddits
As of Monday, nearly 8,000 subreddit forums are going dark for 48 hours in protest of Reddit’s new pricing policy. The new policy implements a...
OpenAI, Microsoft, Google limiting AI chatbot access in Hong Kong: report
ChatGPT creator OpenAI and other US tech giants are reportedly limiting access to their AI chatbots in Hong Kong – where pro-democracy protesters have faced...
Musk says Unabomber ‘might not be wrong’ that tech is bad
Elon Musk said on Saturday that the Unabomber — despite his twisted, homicidal rampage that killed three people and injured two dozen more — “might...