Zoom, which rose to prominence during the coronavirus pandemic as one of the most common video conference platforms in business and education, recently announced plans to lay off 1,300 employees, or 15 percent of its workforce.
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Bear Market: Super Bowl Will Have No Ads from Crypto Companies After 4 Last Year
All in-game ads for the upcoming Super Bowl LVII have been sold out ahead of Sunday’s game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs, but there has been a shakeup since last year’s advertising bonanza — no crypto ads will be shown duri…
Report: 37% of Deals to Fund China’s AI Sector Included American Investors
U.S. investors have reportedly been involved in a major percentage of all investments into China’s artificial intelligence projects, raising national security concerns. At least 37 percent of the deals for AI projects in the Communist country involved …
Scammers Targeted Seniors with 36 Million Fake Medicare Robocalls in January
Robocall scammers have begun targeting the elderly with fake Medicare calls, with 36 million scam calls reported in January. Medicare recipients are advised to never divulge their private information to anyone but their “doctor, pharmacist, hospital, h…
TikTok Launches ‘Transparency Center’ to Appease Critics of Chinese Spying
Chinese-owned social media company TikTok has reportedly launched a new “Transparency and Accountability Center” in an effort to address concerns about the national security implications of allowing the app accused of spying on Americans to operate in …
Twitter Struggles to Remove Child Porn Despite Elon Musk’s Promise to Clean It Up
According to a recent New York Times investigation, despite Elon Musk’s promise to remove child porn from Twitter, calling it “priority #1,” the company has actually fired staff dealing with the issue, stopped paying for important abuse material detect…
Elon Musk Wants Brands to Pay the Freight on Twitter with $1,000 Monthly Charge
Tesla CEO and new Twitter owner Elon Musk recently announced plans to charge businesses $1,000 a month to keep their verified checkmarks. Twitter Blue for Business will charge brands that use Twitter to interact with customers to turn around Musk’s inv…
Teflon Elon: Musk Escapes Liability in Lawsuit over Tesla ‘Funding Secured’ Tweet
Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently won a lawsuit brought against him by Tesla investors who claimed they were financially affected by his infamous 2018 “funding secured” tweets about taking the company private.
ChatGPT Boss Sam Altman Hopes AI Can ‘Break Capitalism’
Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, recently spoke to Forbes in an interview about the future of AI and the development of ChatGPT which Altman hopes could one day “break capitalism.”
Do as Zuck Says, Not as Zuck Does: Facebook Was Scraping Sites for Years While Fighting Other Scraping Firms
Tech giant Facebook was reportedly scraping information from other websites while simultaneously denouncing the practice and suing businesses that scraped information from its own social media platforms.