Want to keep a Google account you haven’t used in a while? Log in soon before it’s deleted. Google will delete inactive accounts after two years on Friday, December 1, 2023. It’s likely to free up server space and protect privacy, according to the company. Google warned in May 2023 …

Two weeks ago, the U.S. Justice Department completed its evidentiary phase in its Google antitrust trial, with closing arguments scheduled for May 2024. Can an industry giant legally engage in anticompetitive business practices if they improve its product and its customers’? Apparently, Judge Amit Mehta has “no idea” how he …

For now, the OpenAI power struggle that captivated the tech world after co-founder Sam Altman was fired has ended. But how do you interpret? It seems like OpenAI died and a new, but not necessarily better, startup replaced it. Ex-Y Combinator President Altman returns, but is he justified? OpenAI’s founding …

OpenAI’s text-generating chatbot, ChatGPT, has gone viral. Over 92% of Fortune 500 companies use a behemoth tool to increase productivity by writing essays and coding with brief text prompts for more general uses. Although ChatGPT has a negative aspect, AI tools are here to stay. ChatGPT boasts 100 million weekly …

One of the biggest tech antitrust cases since the U.S. tried Microsoft in the 1990s, the Justice Department’s landmark case against Google, is nearly two months old, and the revelations keep getting deeper. In our last roundup, we learned how Google spent $26.3 billion in 2021 to become the default …

President Biden issued an executive order (EO) to set “new standards” for AI safety and security, including requirements for foundation AI model developers to notify the federal government and share safety test results before deploying them to the public. An international discussion about boundaries to stop algorithms from becoming too …

Three weeks after relaunching its internet-browsing feature in beta after months, OpenAI launched it on ChatGPT. Until September 2021, ChatGPT, the generative AI chatbot that has taken the world by storm, was limited to data, making it useless as a real-time search engine. OpenAI began offering internet services to ChatGPT …

Reality Defender, one of several startups developing tools to detect deepfakes and other AI-generated content, raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by DCVC, Comcast Ventures, Ex/ante, Parameter Ventures, and Nat Friedman’s AI Grant. Co-founder and CEO Ben Colman plans to double Reality Defender’s 23-person team next …

LinkedIn announced a rollout of AI-powered tools across the company this month. It’s laying off 668 workers today, a future-focused announcement. An informed source says 563 layoffs will be in R&D, affecting engineering, product, talent, and finance teams. The cuts, announced this morning, come five months after LinkedIn cut 716 …

According to a new report from app subscription service Setapp, 42% of Mac users use AI-based apps daily, and 63% believe they are more beneficial than those without AI. Mac app developers are also adopting AI, with 44% having implemented AI or machine learning models and 28% working on it. …