Google sacks senior software engineer Blake Lemoine after claiming its AI...
Jul 23, 2022
Google has sacked a senior software engineer after he claimed the company's AI chatbot is a "sentient" being.
The search engine's parent company...
‘The Billion Dollar Code’: The battle over Google Earth
Netflix's new miniseries fictionalizes the story of two Berlin internet pioneers who attempt to prove that Google stole their idea, worth billions.
Two guys in...
Henry Kissinger’s Last Crusade: Stopping Dangerous AI
By Belinda Luscombe
Nov 5, 2021
At the age of 98, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has a whole new area of interest: artificial...
Israeli Government Signs $1.2B Deal With Google, Amazon for Nimbus Cloud...
by MariTi Blaise Lovell
May 24, 2021
In February, public cloud provider Oracle launched a cloud region from an underground data center in Jerusalem, which came...
Prisons Prime Testing Ground for Dehumanizing Hi-Tech “Advances”
A new form of exploitation, known as “stakeholder capitalism,” is already being tested in many places around the world and prisons are among the...
The GameStop fiasco
The GameStop Bubble Is a Lesson in the Absurdity and Uselessness of the Stock Market
By Doug Henwood
Jan.27, 2021
Who knew GameStop would itself become...
America Abandoned Its Economic Prophet. The World Embraced Him | By...
John Kenneth Galbraith was an intellectual celebrity 50 years ago—and it would be a mistake to ignore him today
January 15, 2021
U.S. President-elect Joe...
Google’s ‘experiment’ hiding Australian news just shows its inordinate power
By Belinda Barnet
Jan. 14, 2021
In the midst of a global pandemic and an unprecedented misinformation glut, Google has decided to hide some Australian news...
With unilateral censorship of a sitting US president, Big Tech has...
By Helen Buyniski*
8 Jan, 2021
Big Tech’s moves to muscle President Donald Trump off social media have been heralded by some as victory. But a...
Google admits to censoring the World Socialist Web Site
By Kevin Reed
4 November 2020
In a statement before a Senate hearing on October 28, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, admitted...