As OpenAI nears the end of a trial to decide a multibillion-dollar lawsuit filed against it by Elon Musk, one its founders, the artificial intelligence company is mulling another legal battle. OpenAI is considering taking legal action against Apple over its integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot in its devices, a person familiar with the company’s […]

How the Iran war is affecting Latin America and the Caribbean’s economic outlook. BY IGNACIO ALBE AND ENRIQUE MILLÁN-MEJÍA WASHINGTON—When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the ensuing disruption to global energy and commodity markets sent a shock through the global economy. This year, the Iran war has set off another […]

Governments around the world are rushing to regulate children’s access to social media. From Australia’s social media ban for minors to growing concerns around artificial intelligence, predators, privacy, and screen addiction, there is little global consensus on where the line should be drawn — or who should be responsible for drawing it. At a Rest […]

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet in Beijing this week amid the urgent geopolitical tensions surrounding the war in Iran and the status of Taiwan. The world’s two biggest economies are also likely to address a wide range of technology issues, from competition over artificial intelligence and access […]

Anthropic, the high-flying artificial intelligence start-up, is in talks with investors to raise between $30 billion and $50 billion in new funding that would value it at up to $950 billion, people involved in the discussions said. The talks could fall apart, the people said, but if the financing is completed, Anthropic’s valuation would jump […]

In recent years, there have been several reminders of how interconnected the global economy is, and how fragile supply chains are. The shutdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic led to big tech companies including Apple shifting some production out of China, while the Middle East conflict is pushing companies to consider how to safeguard their data. […]

Last fall, I moved into Mark Zuckerberg’s old house. A pale blue ranch home dubbed the Facebook House, it was perched in the hills of Los Altos, an affluent enclave in the heart of Silicon Valley. Zuckerberg moved into the house in the fall of 2004, turning it into the headquarters of what was then […]

For at least the past two U.S. administrations, cutting China out of the tech supply chain has been a strategic goal in multiple industries. But the drone industry is one that has been years in the making with limited success, with China accounting for over 80% of the global market. Last September, a Taiwanese drone […]

Last month, South Africa withdrew its Draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy 17 days after it was published because the document cited fake research, created by AI. The incident tarnished a historic moment, as South Africa was set to become the first African nation to adopt a policy establishing a formal ethics board to oversee AI […]

Much of the world is adopting the electric-vehicle technology the U.S. just banned. On March 17, the U.S.banned any vehicle with Chinese software from its roads. Beginning with cars arriving at dealerships this July, every automaker selling in the U.S. must certify that its connected systems contain no Chinese-developed code. Chinese EV companies are the […]