Microsoft Bing Head to Step Down Amid AI Push

Microsoft Bing Head to Step Down Amid AI Push

The head of Microsoft’s Bing search engine and ad business is reportedly leaving that role. Mikhail Parakhin’s departure — the subject of a Monday (March 25) Bloomberg News report — comes a week after the tech giant appointed DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to head up Microsoft’s consumer artificial intelligence (AI) efforts, with Parakhin reporting to …

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Can anyone control AI? – POLITICO

Can anyone control AI? – POLITICO

Clegg, a former British deputy prime minister, argued that policing AI was akin to building a plane already in flight — inherently risky and difficult work. Harris trumpeted Washington’s efforts to address the dangers of AI through voluntary business agreements as the world’s gold standard. Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, who was …

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Serfing the Internet

Serfing the Internet

For as long as there has been “capitalism,” there have been observers predicting its demise—most famously Karl Marx himself, who helped popularize the term. Nearly a century later, James Burnham foresaw a “managerial revolution,” in which control over production would be taken over by a new class of administrators and technocrats, while Joseph Schumpeter prophesied …

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EU AI Act reaction: Tech experts say the world’s first AI law is ‘historic’ but ‘bittersweet’

EU AI Act reaction: Tech experts say the world’s first AI law is ‘historic’ but ‘bittersweet’

In a world-first, the EU has passed legislation to regulate artificial intelligence but while some argue it does not go far enough, others say it could hurt companies with “additional constraints”. ADVERTISEMENT Europe’s policymakers have rushed to spin out rules and warnings to tech companies since the launch of ChatGPT and this week has been …

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Billionaire Frank McCourt is on a crusade against tech

What possesses the wealthy scion of one of America’s greatest industrialist families to embark on a late-in-life crusade to overhaul the fundamental infrastructure of the entire internet? Something that even exorbitant wealth can’t shield someone from: How mean people can be on the internet.  During a messy, public divorce, which ultimately settled in 2011, Frank …

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AI Frenzy Catapults Nvidia’s Value Toward Market Summit

AI Frenzy Catapults Nvidia’s Value Toward Market Summit

Amid a surge that echoes the rapid advancements and growing fascination with artificial intelligence, Nvidia is reportedly on the verge of overtaking Apple as the world’s second-most valuable company. At the core of Nvidia’s rise is its dominant position in the high-end AI chip market, in which it commands an 80% share, and a ravenous market demand for AI capabilities, Reuters …

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EU probes Microsoft’s security software practices

EU probes Microsoft’s security software practices

The European Commission is probing if Microsoft is preventing customers from relying on certain security software from its competitors, according to a document that regulators sent to at least one rival in January, seen by Reuters. Companies over the years have complained about Microsoft’s bundling services and its cloud-computing practices, which European regulators have investigated. …

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Apple Vision Pro Advertising Discussions Fill Up VR Forums

Apple Vision Pro Advertising Discussions Fill Up VR Forums

A video of an Apple Vision Pro user running into a WiFi pop-up “wall” had redditors calling the moment a “Black Mirror-like experience,” and speculating about ways hackers and advertisers will use the impressively immersive features of the VR headsets. The video, which was posted to r/virtualreality on Wednesday, shows an Apple Vision Pro headset …

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lawmakers want to ban driving with V.R. goggles

lawmakers want to ban driving with V.R. goggles

The Legislature’s transportation committee on Wednesday is expected to approve language that would ban the use of the new virtual reality headset, or other similar technologies, while behind the wheel in Massachusetts. Straus, the committee’s House chair, said he crafted language with his staff over Monday night and Tuesday morning, and added it to an …

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