Major companies are restructuring their operations in China in response to growing scrutiny from both Beijing and Washington.
Driving the news: Dentons, the biggest law firm in the world by employee size, is splitting off its Chinese division to comply with new Chinese data privacy and transfer laws, the company recently told clients.
Driving the news: The workplace productivity app is set to roll out its biggest-ever user overhaul, designed with the heaviest Slack users in mind, Slack's chief product officer tells The Verge.
The Defense Department is putting up $18.5 million to encourage U.S. cybersecurity professionals to find novel ways to use artificial intelligence to safeguard the country's critical infrastructure and government systems.
Driving the news: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) kickstarted a two-year cybersecurity challenge at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas Wednesday.
By the numbers: Those polled prefer federal AI regulation over self-regulation by tech companies, with 82% saying they don't trust tech executives to regulate AI.
A change to Zoom's terms of service left customers confused and worried that the video conferencing company was seeking broad rights to use images, sound and other content from meetings to train its AI algorithms.
Why it matters: The pandemic made Zoom synonymous with online meetings. Now users and companies don't want to see their conversations and deliberations shared with the world.
The White House unveiled a multipronged plan Monday to help bolster K-12 schools' cybersecurity as ransomware continues to pummel their systems.
Why it matters: Schools have struggled to improve their cyber defense postures due to a lack of funding and buy-in from district administrators trying to juggle other priorities.
ConductorOne, a startup focused on securing online identities, has closed its Series A round after landing an additional $12 million investment led by Felicis Ventures.
Why it matters: Investors are actively eyeing new investments in startups like ConductorOne that are trying to tackle the growing number of hacks that leverage stolen login credentials to infiltrate company networks.
The Federal Trade Commission has withdrawn an antitrust lawsuit that sought to block Intercontinental Exchange from buying home mortgage software provider Black Knight.
Why it matters: FTC chair Lina Khan has regularly sought court over compromise, but might be changing her tactics after a series of legal losses.
Add artificial intelligence to the long list of topics that evenly divide the American people today.
Yes, but: The relatively even split on overall favorability masks significant differences in attitudes toward and use of AI along income, age and racial and ethnic lines, per an Axios review of more than a dozen recent polls of American adults.
OpenAI, the parent company to ChatGPT, will fund a new journalism ethics initiative at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute with a $395,000 grant, executives told Axios.
Why it matters: It's part of a broader effort by OpenAI to provide support for quality journalism, which it relies on to train its algorithms.
Tricking generative AI to help conduct scams and cyberattacks doesn't require much coding expertise, new research shared exclusively with Axios warns.
Driving the news: Researchers at IBM released a report Tuesday detailing easy workarounds they've uncovered to get large language models (LLMs) — including ChatGPT — to write malicious code and give poor security advice.
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