Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images What can Napster tell us about the future? That was quick: Artificial intelligence has gone from science fiction to novelty to Thing We Are Sure Is the Future. Very, very fast....
Category: Internet & technology
Where will all the laid-off tech workers go?
The path forward for tech workers won’t be easy, but there are options. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images The bright side to all these terrible tech layoffs. Tech layoffs have become a fact of life over the last...
Your favorite tech giant wants you to know it’s a startup again
Tech companies are doing their best to conjure up the good old days when they were startups. Google has even invited its founders back. | Kim Kulish/Corbis via Getty Images Facebook, Google, and Amazon are trying to get their groove...
Why Teslas keep catching on fire
Glenn Harvey for Vox EVs catch fire far less often than gas-powered cars, but firefighters still need to adapt. When Thayer Smith, a firefighter in Austin, Texas, received the call that a Tesla was on fire, he knew that he’d...
TikTok’s master plan to win over Washington
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew. | Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images Millions spent on lobbyists, a billion spent on safeguards. Will it be enough to stay in the United States? The act of scrolling through your For You feed on...
Microsoft is beating Google at its own game
Two decades ago, Google edged out Microsoft with the world’s most popular search engine. Microsoft now wants to win the AI race. | Chesnot/Getty Images The software stalwart’s big investment in AI could make it cutting-edge again. Microsoft appears to...
Trump hasn’t changed. But Facebook is giving him a second chance.
Former US President Donald Trump. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images The former president and promoter of the “big lie” is Facebook’s problem again. Meta is letting its most controversial user — former President Donald Trump — back on Facebook and Instagram....
The US is suing Google (again) to rein in its online ad dominance
Jonathan Kanter, head of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, holds up the lawsuit he just filed against Google on January 24. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Google’s 2023 isn’t going great so far. The Justice Department and eight states are...
Jeff Bezos wants the world to know he’s a philanthropist
Amanda Northrop/Vox The Amazon founder has committed to giving most of his money to charity — and he’s got roughly $120 billion to burn. How’s he doing? During a CNN interview last fall, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos revealed that he...
What Microsoft gets from betting billions on the maker of ChatGPT
The Microsoft store in New York City. | John Smith/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images The reported $10 billion investment in OpenAI will keep the hottest AI company on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Microsoft revealed last week that it will lay off...