President Biden’s surgeon general on Thursday formally requested that the major tech platforms submit information about the scale of Covid-19 misinformation on social networks, search engines, crowdsourced platforms, e-commerce platforms and instant messaging systems. A request for information from the…
Samuel Abuelsamid, principal analyst with Guidehouse Insights, an advisory firm specializing in infrastructure, concurs with that assessment. “There’s certainly a big, addressable market for this type of service,” he said. “This whole area is something that’s going to be critically…
Tackling that challenge has become an emerging and increasingly crowded market, called conversational A.I. Big Tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Oracle have offerings, as do smaller companies and start-ups including Kore.ai, Omilia, Rasa, Senseforth.ai, Verint and Yellow.ai. The…
The National Labor Relations Board has approved a union election at a second Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, opening a new front in the growing challenges to the company’s labor model. The agency informed the company on Wednesday that the…
The Biden administration on Wednesday ramped up restrictions on exporting certain technologies to Russia and Belarus, actions it said would degrade the ability to sustain a military campaign against Ukraine. The new controls will prevent American companies from exporting certain…
A bipartisan group of state attorneys general announced on Wednesday that it had opened an investigation into TikTok and potential harms that the popular social media app may pose to younger users. At least eight states are investigating if the…
Amazon is closing more than 50 of its physical retail stores, including two dozen bookstores and more than 30 Amazon 4-Star stores selling general merchandise, the company said Wednesday. The company’s more than 500 Whole Food Market stores and two…
But as streaming has become the dominant format for music, artists have begun complaining, loudly, that they are not receiving their fair share of the bounty. According to industry estimates, Spotify pays record labels, music publishers and other rights holders…
Members with at least one $FWB token (current price: about $45) can read the group’s newsletter and blog posts. Local membership, which requires holding at least five tokens, comes with limited access to the group’s chat rooms on Discord, a…
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns. The international business community is getting out of Russia. Global tech companies including Google, Facebook and Apple remain mostly open for business there. After…
