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  Microsoft joins plea for government regulation of AI tools like ChatGPT

  Microsoft President Brad Smith went to the other Washington this week to ask government officials to put guardrails up around artificial intelligence.
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  Congress, AI, and a massive Microsoft bet

  What would regulations mean for tech companies doubling down on artificial intelligence?
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  AI help wanted: Job openings mentioning GPT increase by 80% since last year

  It’s only been a few months since ChatGPT debuted, but already the technology has transformed the professional landscape.
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  The U.K. blocks Microsoft's $69 billion deal to buy game giant Activision Blizzard

  British regulators blocked Microsoft's purchase, thwarting the biggest tech deal in history over worries that it would stifle competition in the fast-growing cloud gaming market.

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  What can Seattle's 1970s 'Boeing Bust' teach us about recent tech layoffs?

  Since the 1970s, whenever people in the Pacific Northwest lose their jobs en masse, Seattleites ask whether this is the next Boeing Bust. Looking to Seattle's economic past may offer some wisdom about what's ahead following recent tech layoffs.
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  Word in Review: Can chatbots really feel?

  Every week, Bill Radke takes a word or phrase in the news and asks: “Why that language?” This week’s words come from Microsoft’s new AI chatbot that revealed its "feelings" to a New York Times reporter. Bill asked Peter Clark, who heads the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence: What do the words “I feel” mean, when uttered by a chatbot?
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  Google's new AI chatbot made a $100 billion mistake in a demo ad

  Google's Bard, an answer to Microsoft's ChatGPT, delivered a factual error in a search demo that the company shared widely. That sent Alphabet's market value plummeting this week.

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  Microsoft applications like Outlook and Teams were down for thousands of users

  Microsoft says it rolled back a network change that may have caused thousands to lose access to its apps Wednesday morning. Key workplace engines like Teams, Outlook and Sharepoint were impacted.

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  Google is cutting 12,000 jobs, adding to a series of Big Tech layoffs in January

  The layoffs at Google follow similarly huge cuts at Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce. Tech companies who hired rapidly during the pandemic now face fears of recession.

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  As tech companies announce layoffs, the clock is ticking for immigrant workers

  The big news in the tech world today is, of course, the announcement from Microsoft that it’ll lay off roughly 10,000 employees by April. Other tech giants have already announced big reductions. Let’s run down some of the numbers: Twitter has cut 3,700 jobs. Meta — 11,000. Salesforce — 7,000. And today, Amazon begins its planned reduction of 18,000 people. While the leaders of these companies are largely blaming macro-economic conditions, each layoff is felt at the personal level.

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