Jon Gold
Senior Writer
Jon Gold covers IoT and wireless networking for Network World. He can be reached at jon_gold@ifoundrycodg.com.
China reportedly paying big bonuses for semiconductor expertise
China has quietly rebranded a once-shuttered program designed to entice chipmaking experts to the country, according to a Reuters report.
Opera browser weaves Aria AI into iOS app
Multiplatform web browser Opera has its own AI assistant, Aria, now offered for iOS and available on all major platforms.
Gen-AI HPC infrastructure provider CoreWeave scores $2.3 billion financing deal
CoreWeave, a specialized, AI-focused cloud provider offering high performance compute services, has landed a whopping $2.3 billion in debt financing from several private equity firms.
Major generative AI players join to create the Frontier Model Forum
Four of the biggest companies working with generative AI unveiled plans to form an umbrella industry group to assuage safety and regulatory concerns about the still-evolving technology.
FTC reported to be investigating OpenAI for consumer protection violations
OpenAI is reportedly under additional legal scrutiny, as the US Federal Trade Commission asks the company to give detailed explanations of its business practices.
Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI, Meta over copyright infringement in AI training
The latest AI-related copyright lawsuits target OpenAI, again, as well as Meta, in a potentially critical case for artificial intelligence development.
Annual public cloud revenue reaches half a trillion dollars
Worldwide spending on public cloud services reached $545.8 billion in 2022, new data from IDC says.
Shutterstock offers customers legal indemnity for AI-created image use
Stock photo giant Shutterstock said today that it will offer a legal indemnity to customers using a newly released AI image generation product.
US will block Chinese customers from using AI cloud services: report
The US Department of Commerce could ban Amazon, Microsoft and Google from selling AI-related cloud computing services to Chinese companies, a new report said.
Businesses and tech firms criticize proposed EU AI Act
EU business leaders worry that a perceived excess of regulation could derail efforts to make Europe one of the front-runners in AI technology development.
ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces new class action lawsuit over data privacy
A new lawsuit against OpenAI could decide whether the company’s use of training data scraped from the public internet may continue.
EU announces specialized testing and evaluation centers for AI
Four new “TEFs” will be opening up for AI technology testing this year, according to the European Commission.
DuckDuckGo launches privacy-first Windows browser in beta
Privacy-focused search engine provider DuckDuckGo has debuted its own web browser on Windows, in a public beta test.
New EU security strategy aims to safeguard tech supply chains
A new EU policy draft is aimed at securing Europe’s technological interests, by protecting it against outside interference.
Intel’s German chip fab plans expand
An EU subsidy will underwrite an expanded plan for a major chip foundry in Magdeburg, Germany.
European Commission could move to break up Google’s ad empire
EU regulators have accused Google of manipulating the advertising market to muscle out competitors and bolster its own bottom line.
Adobe offers copyright indemnification for Firefly AI-based image app users
The maker of Acrobat and Photoshop added a generative AI-based image creator to its product lineup, and offered indemnity against IP-related lawsuits.
Amazon workers walk out to protest return-to-work policy, climate change
Return-to-work policies and a frustration with the company’s climate change commitments prompted some Amazon employees to walk off the job Wednesday.
Supreme Court sides with Twitter, Google over tech platform liability
Section 230 remains unchanged with two narrow rulings from the Supreme Court that find major tech players aren’t liable for harms created by user-created content.