(Reuters) – Digital World Acquisition Corp, a blank-check firm that is set to merge with former U.S. President Donald Trump’s media and technology company, on Thursday named Katherine Chiles as its chief financial officer. The development comes after Digital World in March ousted Chief Executive Patrick Orlando, saying that due to “unprecedented headwinds faced by…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday he had launched an effort to establish rules on artificial intelligence to address national security and education concerns, as use of programs like ChatGPT becomes widespread. Schumer, a Democrat, said in a statement he had drafted and circulated a “framework that outlines a…
LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden did not discuss the leak of intelligence documents with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak when the two men met in Northern Ireland this week, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Thursday. “It did not come up, the leaked documents, in that conversation,” she told reporters in…
(Changes reporting credit) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI said on Thursday it has “made an arrest and is continuing to conduct authorized law enforcement activity at a residence in North Dighton, Massachusetts,” amid a media report a suspect in the leak of classified has been identified. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland will make a statement…
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Google faced pointed questions from a judge on Thursday as it argued that the U.S. Justice Department’s allegations that it broke antitrust law to build and maintain its dominance of search are flawed and that the agency’s lawsuit should be thrown out. The government, which filed its lawsuit in the…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An Air National Guardsman suspected of leaking highly classified U.S. documents will be arrested on Thursday in Massachusetts, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not elaborate. The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment on developments in the…
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc’s cloud computing division on Thursday released a suite of technologies aimed at helping other companies develop their own chatbots and image-generation services backed by artificial intelligence. Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc are adding AI chatbots to consumer products like their search engines, but they are also eying another…
By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Ankur Banerjee TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese technology investor SoftBank Group Corp has moved to sell almost all of its remaining shares in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, the Financial Times reported, sending the Chinese e-commerce giant’s Hong Kong-listed shares lower. The sale would come as valuations of China’s big tech firms have started…
(Reuters) -Trading and investing platform eToro said on Thursday it has partnered with Elon Musk-led Twitter to let users access real-time prices of cryptocurrencies, stocks and other assets, and to enable the trading of those instruments. The trading data will be available through Twitter’s Cashtags feature, which was launched in 2012 and allows users to…
By Chris Taylor NEW YORK (Reuters) – Face it, we could all use a little help with our money. So who better to ask for personal finance advice than a couple of the most powerful chatbots on the planet? Both OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are dominating headlines recently, for their generative capabilities and vast…
