Efforts to rein in artificial intelligence, especially rogue content such as deepfake video and audio, are accelerating, both from the government and AI companies themselves. No surprise there, given that one guy got fooled into paying scammers who deepfaked his company’s executives $25 million. Yikes. On a more positive note, somewhat, enterprise tech companies such ...

In the biggest set of earnings results of the new year, not every tech company outperformed, but those that did really set the pace for a better year. Meta Platforms’ stock jumped 20% on Friday after profits tripled, while investors also liked Amazon’s renewed growth. Microsoft killed it too, but investors decided to take some ...

If you thought social media was a problem for the 2016 and 2020 elections, look out: This week the political deepfakes arrived, as bad actors created videos and audio impersonating President Joe Biden and Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips. Even Taylor Swift and the late George Carlin haven’t been spared from the AI deepfake treatment. ...

To their credit, artificial intelligence companies and researchers are looking more deeply at the unintended consequences of generative AI. This week, Anthropic showed how AI can be taught to deceive, though it didn’t offer a solution to that alarming possibility. OpenAI did announce tools to reduce the potential for AI to produce election-influencing misinformation, though ...

With the CES consumer electronics show as usual setting the news year in motion, the technology industry got busy again this week. The biggest deal, and biggest surprise, was Hewlett Packard Enterprise making a $14 billion bid for Juniper Networks, for better or worse looking to challenge Cisco Systems for networking leadership as artificial intelligence ...

Silicon Valley returned to work slowly and reluctantly following the holidays, starting about Wednesday based on the volume of story pitches sent to me, but there was still plenty of news. Not surprisingly, artificial intelligence, which never seems to take a vacation, led the way. OpenAI is about to open a ChatGPT store — AI ...

Not surprisingly, it was a pretty slow week for enterprise technology given the holidays, but there was still some significant news in artificial intelligence, chips and cybersecurity — and of course it’s that time of year for predictions, which we started rolling out this week, with more in coming weeks. Here’s a sampling of the ...

News may be slowing down this week in anticipation of the holiday next week, but cyber criminals, cyber cops and antitrust hawks are not. And despite some high-profile antitrust fallout, such as Adobe abandoning its acquisition of Figma and Apple came under antitrust fire on two fronts, consolidation and even new fundings in enterprise software ...

Even as new funding of artificial intelligence companies keeps on coming, new guardrails on the behavior of generative AI models are getting put in place as well, as we saw moves this week both by companies and by governments. What’s more, the open-source community is weighing in with the contention that AI models will be ...

With its new AI model Gemini, Google this week cracked open the generative AI race even wider — as we said would happen following that pre-Thanksgiving OpenAI debacle. Gemini, which Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai promised way back in May at its I/O conference (pictured) would be coming this year, is still only partially ...