If the future of warehouse work belongs to humans and robots working side by side, a key question remains: What is the most effective way for them to collaborate?

Activists say it’s the first time Big Tech employees have publicly called for regulations governing data center projects.

Activists say it’s the first time Big Tech employees have publicly called for regulations governing data center projects.

Spencer Huang, Nvidia’s robotics lead, tells WIRED that the new bot combines the best of both worlds.

Spencer Huang, Nvidia’s robotics lead, tells WIRED that the new bot combines the best of both worlds.

Giving news websites the power to block their content from being used in AI summaries will have global ramifications

The UK’s competition watchdog has ordered Google to change how it uses publishers’ content in its AI-powered search results, in a move that will have global ramifications.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is using powers that allow it to set bespoke rules for major tech firms that it deems to have “strategic market status”. Google, the world’s largest search engine, is one of those companies.

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Three-quarters of S&P 500 companies now tie a portion of their CEO's pay to environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics. They typically include carbon emissions, workforce diversity and worker safety, among others.

Three-quarters of S&P 500 companies now tie a portion of their CEO's pay to environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics. They typically include carbon emissions, workforce diversity and worker safety, among others.

WhatsApp will charge businesses for using its AI agent based on token usage.

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With rivals racing to market to raise ‘eye-popping sums’, the spotlight is now on the AI sector’s one-time ‘poster child’

A year is a long time in AI. Just 12 months ago, Sam Altman was predicting his company OpenAI would build a super intelligence and fundamentally remake society. Now the boss of the ChatGPT developer is walking back those ideas after failing to make money from ads and erotic chatbots.

Meanwhile, rivals are storming ahead with plans to expand and go public on the stock market, in what is widely expected to be a season of record-setting initial public offerings (IPOs).

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Several real estate listings in the San Francisco Bay Area are offering to exchange a home for a piece of the AI startup.

Several real estate listings in the San Francisco Bay Area are offering to exchange a home for a piece of the AI startup.

Watchdog makes ruling on search summaries after publishers complain about drop in click-through traffic and revenue

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Online publishers and news organisations are now able to block their content from appearing in Google’s AI summaries in UK search results, the British competition watchdog has announced.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the new requirement would “put publishers, like news organisations, in a stronger position to negotiate content deals with Google”.

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A government committee says that the country’s growing dependence on the data analytics company is a serious liability.

A government committee says that the country’s growing dependence on the data analytics company is a serious liability.