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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is expected to take the stand Monday in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, to explain emails that revealed how his company funded the ChatGPT creator's shift from philanthropic organization to for-profit AI giant. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-microsoft-boss-testify-role-openai.html Business Mon, 11 May 2026 05:00:01 EDT news697692985 A flurry of new schemes to launch Europe-based social networks faces a steep, rocky road to seduce users away from American and Asian giants in the sector. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-european-minnows-social-media-giants.html Business Sat, 09 May 2026 05:40:01 EDT news697522558 Google faces a fresh UK lawsuit accusing it of abusing its dominance in online display advertising, the claimants announced Thursday, in the latest antitrust action against the US tech giant. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-google-uk-lawsuit-online-display.html Business Fri, 08 May 2026 04:50:01 EDT news697432688 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Thursday of the risks to global financial stability posed by cyberattacks powered by advanced artificial intelligence tools, calling for greater international cooperation on the issue. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-imf-inevitable-ai-powered-threats.html Business Thu, 07 May 2026 14:20:01 EDT news697380527 Generative artificial intelligence is being used by 17.8% of the world's working-age population, but the gap between wealthy and developing nations continues to widen, according to a report published Tuesday by Microsoft. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-ai-surges-globally-rich-poor.html Business Thu, 07 May 2026 14:00:01 EDT news697380360 Many hydrogen strategies for energy-intensive industries do not adequately address geopolitical risks. Instead, they often assume stable trading relationships and reliable alliances—assumptions which are increasingly questionable in light of recent conflicts and sanctions. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-hydrogen-geopolitical-uncertainty.html Business Thu, 07 May 2026 11:20:03 EDT news697370642 Amazon announced Monday it is opening up its massive shipping and delivery network to any business that wants to use it—not just the merchants who sell on Amazon's website. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-amazon-ship-business-merchants.html Business Mon, 04 May 2026 15:46:59 EDT news697128394 The case for investing in direct air capture weakens substantially once it is directly compared against solar and wind, according to an analysis published in Communications Sustainability. The paper is titled "Direct air capture has substantial health and climate opportunity costs." https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-renewable-energy-effective-air-capture.html Business Mon, 04 May 2026 05:00:03 EDT news696852301 Have you ever paid more for a product because a brand told you it was good for you and the planet? Many activewear shoppers do exactly this, trusting that the "healthy" image on the label matches what is actually in the fabric. That trust is now being questioned. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-probe-chemicals-activewear-lays-fashion.html Business Sat, 02 May 2026 20:00:01 EDT news696681038 With the release this week of the government's News Bargaining Incentive, it's worth reconsidering the origins and achievements of its predecessor, the News Media Bargaining Code. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-australia-showdown-tech-giants-reshape.html Business Fri, 01 May 2026 20:00:01 EDT news696857812 Production of drones and autonomous robots is expected to explode by the late 2030s—by up to 10× for commercial drones and 100× for humanoid and quadruped robots. Publishing in Chem Circularity, researchers estimate how this boost in production could impact US and global supply chains of 18 raw materials used in robots and drones. They predict that incremental demand for rare earth metals and carbon fiber could pose supply problems and recommend that technology developers piggyback off existing capacity from other industries such as electric vehicles to prevent shortages. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-chain-issues-drone-robot-production.html Business Fri, 01 May 2026 11:00:04 EDT news696767222 Electric vehicle sales in China and Europe have reached a threshold or "tipping point" that has triggered an irreversible shift away from their petrol and diesel-powered equivalents. For their article published in Nature Communications, researchers analyzed global sales from 2016–23 and observed that EV sales were increasing exponentially across 32 countries, with the global fleet of electric and hybrid vehicles doubling every 1.5 years. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-electric-vehicles-europe-china.html Business Fri, 01 May 2026 09:20:08 EDT news696845701 As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes embedded in critical decisions about health, safety, finance, and governance, a key challenge is no longer whether people and AI will collaborate, but rather how to structure this collaboration to achieve true complementarity. In the new paper, "Toward a Science of Human–AI Teaming for Decision Making: A Complementarity Framework," researchers present a framework for understanding and designing human–AI teams for decision making. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-intelligence-framework-human-ai-teams.html Business Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:00:03 EDT news696783482 A woman strolls into a grocery store, thinking about grabbing some apples. Before she even reaches the produce aisle, a security camera has scanned her face. Whether the system is checking for shoplifters or simply logging her arrival, her face has joined a digital ledger, a trace she can't easily erase. Retailers, banks, airports, stadiums and office buildings are doing the same. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-facial-recognition-key-identity-stolen.html Business Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:20:01 EDT news696597121 Half of the world's largest digital platforms fail to meet minimum standards of transparency regarding the advertising they carry. This is one of the main findings of the study Data Not Found carried out by our research group at NetLab—the Internet and Social Media Research Laboratory at the School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—in collaboration with researchers from the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy (MCTD), an independent team of researchers at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-reveals-lack-transparency-ad-digital.html Business Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:00:12 EDT news696588061 In a new analysis, two UCL researchers argue that the present system used to allocate billions in research funding was designed for a world without AI agents and may no longer be fit for that purpose. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-agentic-ai-threatens-funding.html Business Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:20:01 EDT news696587461 Australia unveiled draft laws on Tuesday that would tax tech giants Meta, Google and TikTok unless they voluntarily strike deals to pay local outlets for news. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-australia-aims-tax-tech-giants.html Internet Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:43:53 EDT news696566584 Hundreds of millions of people consult artificial intelligence chatbots on a daily basis for everything from product recommendations to romance, making them a tempting audience to target with potentially below-the-radar advertising. Indeed, our research suggests AI chatbots could easily be used for covert advertising to manipulate their human users. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-wouldnt-ai-chatbot-ads-responses.html Business Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:40:04 EDT news696505777 The US Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday about law enforcement's use of "geofence warrants"—the collection of smartphone location data about everyone who was near a particular place at a specific time. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-supreme-court-privacy-case-involving.html Business Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:00:01 EDT news696520505 Taylor Swift has filed applications with the US intellectual property office to trademark her voice, a move similar to one made by actor Matthew McConaughey, as AI-generated content surges. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-taylor-swift-trademark-voice-ai.html Business Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:20:07 EDT news696519925 Microsoft said Monday it will no longer pay a share of its revenue to ChatGPT maker OpenAI, the latest move to untether a close partnership that helped unleash an artificial intelligence boom. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-microsoft-openai-revenue-fresh-loosen.html Business Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:00:08 EDT news696519779 The EU on Monday laid out measures it wants Google to take to open up its operating system to rival AI services, in a move slammed by the US tech giant. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-eu-google-android-ai-rivals.html Business Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:00:05 EDT news696519945 OpenAI officially discontinued its video generation tool, Sora, on April 26, 2026. I'm a computer scientist who's been developing AI tools and studying their evolution and adoption for the past decade, and I wasn't surprised by OpenAI's decision to shut down Sora. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-sora-shutdown-reveals-limits-ai.html Business Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:20:03 EDT news696514083 Across the business world, companies often double down on struggling ideas, retreating only after clear evidence shows they won't work. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-perseverance-doesnt-pay-companies-fast.html Business Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:00:03 EDT news696509761 China on Monday blocked U.S. tech giant Meta's acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Manus, in an unexpected move to reverse a deal that apparently aroused Beijing's concerns about the transfer of advanced technology. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-china-blocks-meta-ai-startup.html Business Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:40:13 EDT news696504068 In late 2024, a new building broke ground in Western Sydney that will draw more electricity than 140,000 homes—roughly the power demand for a mid-sized Australian town like Geelong. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-ai-world-demanding-client-implications.html Business Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:00:04 EDT news696501962 The legendary American bank robber Willie Sutton spent 40 years robbing banks because, as he claimed in his autobiography, he loved doing it. And when asked why he chose banks of all places to rob, he allegedly replied, "Because that's where the money is." https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-world-banks-anthropic-latest-ai.html Business Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:30:02 EDT news696244458 Meta and Microsoft are the latest software companies to announce big cuts to their global workforce. Both companies are also making big investments in artificial intelligence (AI). https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-meta-microsoft-tech-layoff-tsunami.html Business Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:00:03 EDT news696244447 Jury selection is to begin Monday in a high-profile legal battle between billionaire Elon Musk and artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, which he accuses of betraying its nonprofit mission. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-billionaire-elon-musk-courtroom-showdown.html Business Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:00:01 EDT news696306061 Christine Li is a model and influencer, but not an actor, so when she saw herself playing a cruel character in a Chinese microdrama she felt bewildered, then angry and afraid. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-ai-drama-accused.html Business Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:00:01 EDT news696223052