Technology

The Federal Trade Commission is expected to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of video gaming giant Activision Blizzard with a preliminary injunction. The FTC is anticipated to file for the temporary order on Monday, according to MLex, a news service that tracks regulatory developments. The federal regulator has two closed-door meetings scheduled on Monday to discuss the move, according to …

The attorney behind a major class-action lawsuit against Google claims that advances in artificial intelligence give the digital monopoly almost unlimited power to control lives, influence thought and shape society. “When the average person interacts with the internet, Google monitors and controls everything,” John C. Herman, of Herman Jones LLP in Atlanta, told Fox News Digital.  “From the search results, to the advertisements, to …

ChatGPT creator OpenAI and other US tech giants are reportedly limiting access to their AI chatbots in Hong Kong – where pro-democracy protesters have faced harsh crackdowns and censorship from the Chinese Communist Party in the last few years. OpenAI, Microsoft and Google have all restricted access to their respective chatbot services for Hong-Kong-based users in recent months, the Wall …

Twitter boss Elon Musk wants to lure liberal TV hosts like fired CNN anchor Don Lemon or MSNBC host Rachel Maddow to his platform to balance out conservative views voiced by Tucker Carlson. “It’d be great to have @maddow, @donlemon & others on the left put their shows on this platform,” Musk wrote Thursday while retweeting the second installment of …

A popular generative AI tool that creates images from text prompts is rife with gender and racial stereotypes when it comes to rendering people in “high-paying” and “low-paying jobs,” according to a recent study. Stable Diffusion, a free-to-use AI model, was asked to render 5,100 images from written prompts related to job titles in 14 fields, plus three categories related …

Metaverse evangelist Mark Zuckerberg took a shot at tech rival Apple over its pricey mixed-reality headset, saying the new gadget is only for people “sitting on a couch by themself.” Apple’s “Vision Pro” — rolled out by CEO Tim Cook with an eye-popping $3,499 price tag — will directly compete with Meta’s lower-priced headsets when it’s released next year. “Every …

Meta teased a standalone app in a “response to Twitter” during a company-wide meeting on Thursday, and a top exec at the Facebook parent company has already taunted Twitter boss Elon Musk by saying the upcoming rival will be “sanely run.” The app, internally code-named Project 92, will launch through Instagram and is rumored to be called Threads upon its …

Mark Zuckerberg told executives Thursday that AI tools will soon be integrated “into every single one” of Meta’s products. The Facebook founder demonstrated during an all-hands meeting how the ChatGPT-like features will modify user photos via text prompts on Instagram and create emoji stickers for messaging services such as WhatsApp. Zuckerberg also plans to implement various chatbots that would range …

General Motors will join Ford in adopting Tesla’s North American charging plug standard and give GM electric-vehicle buyers access to the Tesla Supercharger network under an agreement announced on Thursday. GM’s move, which follows a similar decision by Ford to embrace Tesla’s charging plug standard, means three of the top EV sellers in the North American market have now agreed on a standard …

Google allowed employees in New York City and other East Coast locales to work from home to avoid dangerous smoke from Canadian wildfires – even as the tech giant warned of a fresh crackdown on workers who ignore its office attendance requirement. Local New York office leaders told employees on Wednesday that air quality had “unhealthy” levels, according to data …