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Google Staff In London Walkout Over Job Cuts

Some of Google's 5,000 staff in the UK walkout over dispute about job cuts, mirroring similar walkout in Zurich last…

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Bill Gates: OpenAI GPT Most Important Tech Advance Since 1980

Biggest advance since the GUI. Bill Gates says OpenAI’s GPT AI model is the most revolutionary advance in past 40…

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OpenAI Fixes Bug With ChatGPT That Exposed User Chats

Chief executive of OpenAI admits “significant issue” in ChatGPT has now been fixed, after user chat titles were exposed

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Court Dismisses Gamers Lawsuit Over Microsoft Activision Purchase

US federal court dismisses lawsuit from gamers over Microsoft's $69 billion proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard

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Microsoft Adds OpenAI Tech ‘Copilot’ To Word, Excel

Redmond continues its aggressive integration of AI into its products, with AI features dubbed Copilot, for Office, Excel

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Autonomy’s Mike Lynch Fights US Extradition Attempt

Co-founder and former CEO of Autonomy Dr Mike Lynch asks High Court in London to block his extradition to the…

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Microsoft Tells UK It Will Licence Call Of Duty To Sony For A Decade

Please don't veto the Activision purchase. Microsoft tells UK regulator it will play nicely with rival Sony for at least…

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ChatGPT Added To Salesforce’s Slack

Salesforce and OpenAI introduce the ChatGPT app for Slack, in an effort to add artificial intelligence to business software

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White House Backs Bill That Could Lead To Nationwide Ban Of TikTok

More bad news for ByteDance, as White House backs bill to give Biden administration new powers to ban China's TikTok…

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Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai Admits Some Google Offices Are Like ‘Ghost Town’

Google CEO defends desk-sharing policy during staff meeting, and admits that some offices are like a ‘ghost town’

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Microsoft Rolls Out Bing AI To Windows 11

Update to Redmond's latest operating system, Windows 11, will add search button that promotes its Bing AI chatbot

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China Restricts Access To ChatGPT, But Praises AI Potential

Chinese tech firms instructed to cut access to US-based ChatGPT, as state media outlets accuse it of spreading US 'misinformation'

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Microsoft “Permanently Disables” Internet Explorer

Final final twitch of the Internet Explorer corpse? Microsoft has “permanently disabled” Internet Explorer from Windows 10

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Yahoo To Lay Off 20 Percent Of Workforce

Job losses to begin at Yahoo with 1,600 staff set to lose their positions, in latest tranche of layoffs impacting…

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UK Watchdog Finds Microsoft’s Activision Deal Could Hurt Gamers

British watchdog CMA becomes first global regulator to conclude Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision is anti-competitive

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Microsoft Adds AI To Bing Search Engine, Edge Browser

Challenge to Google, as Microsoft announces new AI-powered Bing homepage that allows a user to chat with search engine

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Alphabet Earnings Miss Expectations, As YouTube Declines

Google parent Alphabet has felt the impact of reduced advertising spending, after its latest financials mostly missed Wall Street expectations

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IBM And SAP To Cut Thousands Of Jobs

Two more tech players announce culling of thousands of jobs, with IBM letting go 3,900 positions and SAP cutting 3,000

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LastPass Owner GoTo Confirms Hackers Stole Customers’ Backups

It gets worse. Confirmation from LastPass owner GoTo that hackers stole encrypted backups and encryption key for portion of them

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Microsoft Investigates Outage With Teams, Outlook

Thousands of users are reporting problems accessing Microsoft services on Wednesday, as firm says it is investigating

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Google Delays Portion Of Bonus Payments To Staff

Alphabet is to defer a portion of the bonus given to staff until later in the year - in a…

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Microsoft Confirms It Will Axe 10,000 Jobs

Software giant Microsoft adds to the glut of job losses occurring within the tech sector, after it confirms 10,000 jobs…

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Microsoft To Cut Thousands Of Jobs – Report

Software giant Microsoft said to be finalising plans to axe 11,000 positions, in latest job cull in tech industry

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Microsoft Officially Recognises First Ever Union

More unionisation among tech workforces. Staff at one of Microsoft's recent billion dollar plus acquisitions form trade union

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EU Begins ‘In-Depth Investigation’ Into $61bn Broadcom-VMware Buy

European Commission follows the UK's CMA and opens “an in-depth investigation” into Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware

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Fornite’s Epic Games To Pay $520m In FTC Settlement

Epic Games agrees record-breaking $520m fine with FTC, to settle allegations it misled millions of young Fornite players

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Apple To Allow Third Party App Stores In EU – Report

Cracking open the monopoly. Apple is reportedly preparing to allow alternative app stores on its iPhones and iPads in the…

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US Moves To Block Microsoft’s Activision Purchase

Biden administration on Thursday makes its move to block Microsoft's $69bn acquisition of gaming giant Activision Blizzard

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