OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told some shareholders that the company is considering changing its governance structure to a for-profit business that the firm's nonprofit board doesn't control, The Information reported on Friday.

Alphabet's Google must face trial on U.S. antitrust enforcers' claim that the internet search juggernaut illegally dominates the online advertising technology market, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

SpaceX is slashing the price of its new V4 Starlink dish from $599 to $499, and it's rolling out a new “regional savings” program that brings the dish’s cost to $299 for new subscribers.

The $499 price popped up today on Starlink's official service plan and checkout pages.

To further drive down latency for Starlink, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk plans on launching "next-generation" satellites that orbit closer to Earth. 

"The current Starlinks are at 550 kilometers (in orbit). And the next generation will be 350," he said over the weekend while using Starlink to live stream himself playing Diablo IV. 

Are you ready to pay more than $300 a year just to watch local broadcast TV stations like ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC? On April 1, 2024, Comcast released a new rate card and Cord Cutters News received a copy of the San Francisco card that shows local TV stations like ABC, CBS, FOX, and […]

AI is already stealing writers’ work. Now they’re losing jobs over false accusations of using it.

Ad groups opposed the bill, which would have allowed consumers to sue over violations.

Hello, and welcome to this week’s edition of the Future in Five Questions. Brendan recently interviewed Chandler Morse, vice president of public policy at Workday, the software giant that broke into the Fortune 500 last week. The D.C.-based lobbyist discussed the structural issues stopping Congress from addressing the geopolitics of tech, how states are leading the charge on tech rules and why large language models without bespoke datasets are little more than “parlor tricks.” This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity:

Washington is fumbling through a slate of potential artificial intelligence regulations — some focused on global competition, some on AI-generated deepfakes and some arguing that the government should get its arms around how it’s using AI before it tells anyone else how to do it.

All the while, the tech continues to rapidly evolve with little oversight.

The most sweeping plan on the table for now is Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s proposed “roadmap” that sets out bipartisan legislative priorities, but that’s more of a plan to have a plan, and less an actual piece of legislation.

In a statement Thursday, Schumer called the bill focusing on government procurement and use of AI, co-sponsored by Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), “essential for the federal government to deploy AI so it protects people’s civil rights, prevents bias, and ensures people’s privacy.”

What lawmakers put together will depend in part on what they think will make their constituents happy — and a new poll offers a window onto their thinking.

The contribution factor will go up to 34.4 percent from 32.8 percent.

Meta Platforms will not launch its Meta AI models in Europe for now after the Irish privacy regulator told it to delay its plan to harness data from Facebook and Instagram users, the U.S. social media company said on Friday.

Apple and Meta Platforms will likely face charges for failing to comply with landmark EU rules aimed at reining in their power before the summer, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.

OpenAI has appointed a former director of the National Security Agency (NSA) to its board, and that's not sitting well with Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who leaked the NSA's surveillance secrets a decade ago and now lives in Russia.

"Do not ever trust OpenAI," Snowden tweeted today after the company named retired US Army General Paul Nakasone to the board's new Safety and Security Committee.

As the AI bubble continues inflating at lightning speed, the people doing the industry's grunt work are feeling the churn.

A buzzy process called retrieval augmented generation, or RAG, is taking hold in Silicon Valley and improving the outputs from large language models. How does it work?

While X claims to have the most devoted base of news seekers, it ranked highest in inaccurate reporting, a Pew Research study finds, with 86% of its user base reporting seeing inaccurate news and 37%
saying they see it often.

Boston billionaire Frank McCourt thinks the internet is broken. He goes so far as to say the way we use the internet today robs us of "our humanity" and "our personhood."

Home internet, Netflix, mobile and music services are now consumers' top priorities, says Hub Entertainment Research

Including broadband providers in the USF would likely cost consumers more, Rosenworcel said.