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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says AI is an "existential risk" and could lead to "many, many, many, many people" being "harmed or killed."

Former Google CEO Warns AI Could Lead to People Being “Harmed or Killed”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a leaked internal memo, a Google exec expressed serious fears about losing the ongoing AI arms race to, well, anyone.

Leaked Google Memo Shows Fear of Losing the AI Race, But Not to the Foe You’d Think

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The associate director of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence compared AI scientists to "late-stage" teens.

Artificial Intelligence

Stanford Director: AI Scientists’ “Frontal Cortex Is Massively Underdeveloped”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk's "reckless and irresponsible statements" about crime in San Francisco only spread misinformation, according to District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.

San Francisco District Attorney Takes Aim at Elon Musk Over Murder Allegations

By Victor Tangermann

San Francisco Police Department has arrested a suspect in the killing of Cash App founder and former Square executive Bob Lee.

Murdered Tech CEO May Have Been Stabbed to Death by Tech Exec He Knew

By Victor Tangermann

Meta employees are reportedly struggling to navigate a work culture plagued by mass firings, cost-cuts, and "absentee" bosses.

It Sounds Like Facebook Is Completely Falling Apart

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Comedian Adam Conover took to YouTube to publish a scathing 25-minute-long video essay addressing the AI hype cycle. Honestly? It goes hard.

Artificial Intelligence

Video Brutally Takes Down the AI Hype Wave

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To what we presume is Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's dismay, Microsoft and Disney have both begun to wind down metaverse efforts.

The Metaverse Is Completely Falling Apart

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Salesforce, the firm co-helmed by the definitely not Hawaiian Marc Benioff, is the latest in a slew of tech giants to lay off thousands of employees.

Company Lays Off 8,000 While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10 Million a Year

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As the company's AI war woes (spoiler: it's losing) build, CNBC reports that Google has officially commanded its employees to start sharing desks.

Google Instructs Workers to Share Desks to Cut Costs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

You may be shocked to discover that Facebook once tried to build a railroad. The project failed terribly, leaving Bay Area communites hanging.

Facebook Tried to Open a Railroad, Failed Miserably

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has, for the first time in the company's nearly 20-year history, reportedly announced a sweeping restructuring of his organization.

Layoffs Hitting Facebook as Zuckerberg’s Vision Stumbles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's crackdown continues, and according to internal audio obtained by CNBC, the tension between Googlers and their CEO, Sundar Pichai, is growing.

Google CEO Incredulous at Employees Mad About Loss of Perks

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amid disappointing revenue and a productivity push, Google has extended a two-week hiring freeze — and apparently, workers are shook.

Google Employees Alarmed That the Company Suddenly Expects Them to Do Work

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After laying off 9 percent of its staff back in April, Robinhood leaders announced yesterday that they'll be cutting an extra 23 percent of the workforce.

Robinhood Laying Off Almost a Quarter of Its Workforce

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Oft-troubled rideshare application Uber is in hot water once again — and this time, allies like French President Emmanuel Macron might be going down, too.

Advanced Transport

If This Leak Is Real, Uber Is in Huge Trouble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Members of the Fellowship of Friends religious sect or cult have taken over hiring at Google, one former Google employee says. New hires are cult members.

Google Allegedly Infiltrated by “Cult-Like Religious Sect”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A Microsoft executive faces an allegation he watched VR porn in front of employees and touched women inaporpriately. It's an industry wide problem.

Microsoft Exec Accused of Watching VR Porn in Front of Employees

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Altos Labs, a biological reprogramming tech company, is allegedly attracting big name investors such as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

Super Wealthy Fund Mysterious Lab to Unlock Immortality

By Tony Ho Tran

Senior employees at the security camera company Verkada used the company's own facial recognition to sexually harass their coworkers.

Men at Facial Recognition Startup Used Its Own Tech to Sexually Harass Coworkers

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla senior industrial designer Remy Labesque, who normally works on solar panels and EV chargers, just reinvented the chocolate chip.

Science & Energy

Tesla Designer Reinvents the Chocolate Chip

By Dan Robitzski

Big tech companies have by and large avoided the blackouts in California, as they're powered by more robust transmission lines.

The CA Blackouts Are Oh-so-Coincidentally Not Affecting Big Tech

By Dan Robitzski

The FBI has reportedly begun investigating Mithril Capital, the venture capital firm co-founded by Silicon Valley tycoon Peter Thiel.

FBI Investigation Targets Trump Booster Peter Thiel’s VC Firm

By Dan Robitzski

Anonymous contractors at Apple's so-called "black site," a low-key office for Apple Maps development, described grim working conditions.

Apple Runs A “Black Site” That a Worker Called “Dehumanizing”

By Dan Robitzski

A new investigation reveals that out of 48 healthcare startups that raised $1 billion, over half have barely published any research to support their claims.

Health & Medicine

Health Startups’ Dark Secret: Most Don’t Publish Peer-Reviewed Research

By Dan Robitzski

Officials have approved a plan for the development of the Greater Bay Area, a region in China they hope will become the next Silicon Valley.

Beijing Greenlights Plan to Create Chinese Silicon Valley

By Kristin Houser

One AI conference has refused changing its notoriously alienating name.

An AI Conference Refusing a Name Change Highlights a Tech Industry Problem

By Dan Robitzski

Disrupting the Reaper: Tech Titans’ Quest for Immortality Rages Forward

Disrupting the Reaper: Tech Titans’ Quest for Immortality Rages Forward

Microsoft President Calls For Government Rules For Facial Recognition Technology

Facial recognition

Microsoft President Calls For Government Rules For Facial Recognition Technology

By Victor Tangermann

This Sexy Burger Machine Won’t Necessarily Steal Your Job, But Could Make It Better

This Sexy Burger Machine Won’t Necessarily Steal Your Job, But Could Make It Better

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers Commandeered 3 Cryptocurrency Networks, Stole Millions

Hackers Commandeered 3 Cryptocurrency Networks, Stole Millions

By Dan Robitzski

The SPCA Has Removed Its Controversial Security Robot

The SPCA Has Removed Its Controversial Security Robot

By Patrick Caughill

In a Dystopian Move, the SPCA Is Using a Robot to Scare off Homeless People

By Chelsea Gohd

Lebanon Leads the Pack in Closing the Tech Industry’s Gender Gap

Lebanon Leads the Pack in Closing the Tech Industry’s Gender Gap

By Chelsea Gohd