As Meta kicks off its annual shareholder meeting Wednesday, human rights groups have coordinated protests calling the company to put an end to what they call systemic censorship of pro-Palestine content, both on the company’s social networks and within its own workforce.The day of action comes after nearly 200 Meta employees signed a letter to Mark Zuckerberg this month demanding the company put an end to alleged censorship of internal voices advocating for Palestinian rights. The employees called for more ...

Google’s new AI overviews feature for search results has reportedly told users who asked questions about depression to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, recommended glue as a pizza ingredient and has apparently sourced some of its information from the satirical news site the Onion.Last week, Google announced at its I/O developer conference that the feature would be rolled out to users in the US before other parts of the world by the end of the year. The overview, that appears at the top of search results, is ...

Elon Musk has criticised US government tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, describing the levies as “not good” and a distortion of the car market.The Tesla chief executive had previously supported trade barriers but he performed a U-turn on Thursday during a video appearance at a Paris tech conference.“Neither Tesla nor I asked for these tariffs, in fact I was surprised when they were announced. Things that inhibit freedom of exchange or distort the market are not good,” Musk said at Viva Technology via v ...

ChatGPT developer OpenAI has signed a deal to bring news content from the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, the Times and the Sunday Times to the artificial intelligence platform, the companies said on Wednesday. Neither party disclosed a dollar figure for the deal.The deal will give OpenAI access to current and archived content from all of News Corp’s publications. The deal comes weeks after the AI heavyweight signed a deal with the Financial Times to license its content for the development of AI models. ...

Nvidia reported record quarterly revenue Wednesday on the back of the explosion in corporate appetite for artificial intelligence.“The next industrial revolution has begun – companies and countries are partnering with Nvidia … to produce a new commodity: artificial intelligence,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia.The company brought in $26bn in revenue in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, up 18% from Q4 and up 262% from a year ago. Net profit was $14.88bn, up from $2bn a year before.The AI c ...

Pixar Animation Studios, which produced such classic films as Toy Story and Up, began laying off about 14% of its workforce on Tuesday as it scales back development of original streaming series, according to a source familiar with the development.Approximately 175 people will be affected by job cuts at the Walt Disney Company unit.The animation studio had hired additional staff to create original series as the former Disney CEO Bob Chapek pushed each of the company’s creative units to produce exclusive cont ...

Amazon has been accused of using “intrusive algorithms” as part of a sweeping surveillance program to monitor and deter union organizing activities.Workers at a warehouse run by the technology giant on the outskirts of St Louis, Missouri, are today filing an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board.A copy of the charge, seen by the Guardian, alleges that Amazon has “maintained intrusive algorithms and other workplace controls and surveillance which interfere with Section 7 rights ...

Microsoft wants laptop users to get so comfortable with its artificial intelligence chatbot that it will remember everything you’re doing on your computer and help figure out what you want to do next.The software giant on Monday revealed an upgraded version of Copilot, its AI assistant, as it confronts heightened competition from big tech rivals in pitching generative AI technology that can compose documents, make images and serve as a lifelike personal assistant at work or home.The announcements ahead of M ...

Google announced this week that it would begin the international rollout of its new artificial intelligence-powered search feature, called AI Overviews. When billions of people search a range of topics from news to recipes to general knowledge questions, what they see first will now be an AI-generated summary.Google touted AI Overviews at its annual I/O developer conference as a way of delivering customers quick answers and simplifying the online search experience, but it also has another effect on the way ...

The European Commission has begun an investigation into the owner of Facebook and Instagram over concerns that the platforms are creating addictive behaviour among children and damaging mental health.The EU executive said Meta may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA), a landmark law passed by the bloc last summer that makes digital companies large and small liable for disinformation, shopping scams and child abuse.“Today we open formal proceedings against Meta,” the EU commissioner for the internal ...