Big Tech
Meta announced a massive deal with AMD on Tuesday, which would see the social media giant agree to purchase six gigawatts of processors for AI from the semiconductor manufacturer and possibly acquire stock worth up to 10% of the company—very similar to a deal AMD struck with OpenAI last October.
Former EU commissioner Thierry Breton, who led tech sector regulation efforts, is now barred from having a US visa. The Trump administration condemned the EU's online content moderation measures as 'censorship.'
The seven-year agreement will see OpenAI gain access to Nvidia graphics processors to train its artificial intelligence models.
The prolonged outage offered a reminder of the fragility of global internet connectivity and Amazon’s role underpinning much of online infrastructure.
The outage at Amazon services has impacted over 1,000 companies and affected millions of internet users.
Amazon Web Services, a cloud service provider, said most services were back up. Hulu, Snapchat and the British government’s official site were among those affected.
Employee activism has put some tech workers at odds with their bosses and tested internal policies at Microsoft and Google
The U.K.’s Online Safety Act took effect last Friday, requiring proof of age to access certain content
Age verification is well intentioned but it creates new privacy risks
Amazon, Apple, Google are all being accused of abusing legal privilege in battles to strip away their power
Some of the world's biggest websites including Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify and Shopify are experiencing technical problems due to a reported DDOS attack.