By David Shepardson and Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo was among a group of senior U.S. officials whose emails were hacked earlier this year by a group Microsoft says is based in China, according to a person briefed on the matter, as fallout from the digital theft continues to…
(Reuters) – Hollywood actors will go on strike beginning midnight after talks with studios broke down, said Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, chief negotiator for SAG-AFTRA, the actors’ union, on Thursday. (Reporting By Dawn Chmielewski in Los Angeles)
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Thousands of Hollywood film and television actors voted to strike on Thursday, joining writers who walked off the job 11 weeks ago. How will a walkout by the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) affect viewers’ favorite shows and movies? Which films and television…
By Jane Lanhee Lee and Eduardo Baptista (Reuters) – The sale of struggling Silicon Valley startup zGlue’s patents in 2021 was unremarkable except for one detail: The technology it owned, designed to cut the time and cost for making chips, showed up 13 months later in the patent portfolio of Chipuller, a startup in China’s…
(Reuters) -Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur, launched his long-teased artificial intelligence startup xAI on Wednesday, unveiling a team comprised of engineers from the same big U.S. technology firms that he hopes to challenge in his bid to build an alternative to ChatGPT. The startup will be led by Musk, already the CEO of electric car…
By Anna Tong SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – In a frenzy unseen since the birth of social media in the early 2000s, investors are pouring billions into generative AI and fueling a startup boom in San Francisco. At the same time, they are fueling hopes that the nascent AI sector will help revive the city’s decaying downtown…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on the West Coast opened a docket on Thursday on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s effort to overturn its loss trying to stop Microsoft from buying “Call of Duty” maker Activision. A federal judge in California had ruled for Microsoft on Tuesday, saying the agency had failed to show…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A group on Thursday sued the state of Texas, claiming that research and teaching have been compromised by the state’s ban on public university employees using Chinese-owned short video app TikTok on state-owned devices or networks. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed suit in U.S. District Court…
(Reuters) -The Associated Press is licensing a part its archive of news stories to OpenAI under a deal that will explore generative AI’s use in news, the companies said on Thursday, a move that could set the precedent for similar partnerships between the industries. The news publisher will gain access to OpenAI’s technology and product…
By Bansari Mayur Kamdar (Reuters) – Shares in Google parent Alphabet Inc were up 4.9% on Thursday after it said it was rolling out its artificial-intelligence chatbot Bard in Europe and Brazil, easing worries about overseas regulatory issues. The stock last traded at $124.73 and was on track for its biggest one-day percentage gain since…
