Google was ordered by European Union regulators on Thursday to lift restrictions that limit how rival A.I. companies can reach users of Android smartphones, a sign of increased government scrutiny of the booming business of artificial intelligence. The decision is a response to fears that Google will leverage the enormous user base of Android, which…
Kevin M. Warsh reiterated his commitment to bringing down inflation at his first congressional hearing since becoming chairman of the Federal Reserve. However, he has yet to indicate whether he supports higher interest rates to achieve that goal. Mr. Warsh told lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday that the central bank would…
Anthropic and the Trump administration reached a deal on Friday to bring one of the company’s most powerful artificial intelligence models back online, after days of tense negotiations. In a letter sent to Anthropic, the Commerce Department gave the San Francisco company permission to restore some clients’ access to its Mythos 5 model, which the…
Congress has failed to address the work force disruption that artificial intelligence could generate. The White House, excited about the upside for stocks and investment, has downplayed the potential for widespread job losses. Now, amid growing public anger over A.I. and a debate over how to regulate it, a group of employers, state governors and…
The Trump administration on Monday moved to relax environmental rules governing the extraction of oil, gas and coal from public lands across the country. The Interior Department issued a pair of proposed rules that would reduce costs and weaken requirements for fossil fuel companies that operate on federal lands. The first rule would drastically lower…
Amazon illegally retaliated against three of its employees for publicly testifying that Seattle should regulate data centers, according to a complaint filed on Thursday with the city’s Office for Civil Rights. The complaint was filed on the workers’ behalf by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, an independent group of corporate employees at Amazon that since…
At an internal OpenAI policy meeting last month, employees pressed executives on donations that one of the company’s founders had made to Leading the Future, a super PAC that favors lighter regulation of artificial intelligence and has become a powerful force in the midterm elections. Top policy executives tried to distance OpenAI from the activities…
From the moment Kevin M. Warsh stepped to the lectern for his first news conference as chairman of the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, he sounded less like the head of the central bank and more like a politician. Fresh off presiding over his initial policy meeting as the leader of the world’s most powerful central…
Late last year, a delegation from Waymo met with Gov. Kathy Hochul’s staff as she considered measures to legalize the company’s self-driving taxis in New York. Waymo floated an idea: If New York allowed the company to offer driverless rides to the public, it could provide millions of dollars to benefit taxi drivers and other…
SpaceX may have held the biggest initial public offering of all time, but Wall Street may be expecting something even bigger from Elon Musk, the rocket company’s chief executive. Many of his fans and investors expect him to merge SpaceX with Tesla, the maker of electric cars where he is also chief executive, joining most…
