The White House will host leaders of AI's top companies Thursday for a meeting with administration officials, Axios has confirmed.
Details: Vice President Kamala Harris and other senior administration officials will meet with the CEOs of Alphabet/Google, Anthropic, Microsoft and OpenAI, per an invitation obtained by Axios.
IBM's CEO is setting his sights on using artificial intelligence to eliminate thousands of jobs in one of the first acknowledgments by a major company that it plans to reduce its workforce with AI.
Why it matters: AI has the potential to fundamentally reshape the workforce, much like the industrial revolution and the digital age caused enormous opportunity, upheaval and uncertainty throughout the economy.
Iran's state-backed hackers are expanding their cyber playbook to include disinformation campaigns, Microsoft warned in a reportTuesday.
Driving the news: Microsoft estimates that the Iranian government was behind 24 "cyber-enabled influence operations" throughout 2022, including 17 since mid-June.
The likelihood of cybercriminals investing energy and money into incorporating artificial intelligence into their schemes anytime soon is vastly overblown.
The big picture: If anything, cyber defenders will see the more immediate benefits of AI — it can help them block the run-of-the-mill security holes that criminals keep exploiting.
Big trades can move any market, but this is especially true in the still relatively small asset classes of cryptocurrencies.
Driving the news: Tristero, a crypto startup, announced Tuesday that it's raising $4.8 million to build a trustless dark pool, designed to facilitate large trades without alerting the market and moving prices dramatically.
The "godfather of AI" quit Google and joined a growing chorus of experts warning that the rush to deploy artificial intelligence could lead to disaster.
Why it matters: When some of the smartest people building a technology warn it could turn on humans and shred our institutions, it's worth listening.
The Writers Guild of America is on strike for the first time in 15 years after negotiations for a labor deal with Hollywood studios broke down ahead of the current deal's expiration on Monday.
Why it matters: A work stoppage threatens to cripple Hollywood's already-messy transition to the streaming era.
A coalition of technology and educational organizations are teaming up to support TeachAI, a Code.org-led effort to help educators both use artificial intelligence in the classroom and explain to their students how the technology works.
Why it matters: Adoption of AI is exploding, creating a huge need for people to understand the technology's power and limits. At the same time, educators are struggling to adapt to the sudden arrival of tools that could significantly upend the ways students are taught and evaluated.
The adult content website Pornhub blocked access in Utah on Monday due to new state laws requiring websites with adult content to verify users' ages before allowing them to access the platforms.
Driving the news: Pornhub.com now opens on devices in Utah with a message that states the company has "made the difficult decision to completely disable access to our website in Utah."
After years of letting users store and share online documents, Box is adding a feature that allows customers to use AI to ask questions based on the contents of those files.
Why it matters: CEO Aaron Levie tells Axios that AI represents the biggest opportunity yet for the company to expand beyond its roots as a provider of storage.
