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Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic moved closer to the front lines of AI governance on Monday, as a senior UK watchdog warned of an “arms race” to oversee artificial intelligence in financial services and the United States confirmed engineering dean Arvind Raman as the 18th
Microsoft has laid off roughly 4,800 employees — about 2. 1% of its global workforce — with the deepest cuts landing in its Xbox gaming division and commercial sales business, marking one of the company’s most aggressive restructurings since its AI pivot accelerated last year.
Charlie Javice, the embattled founder of college financial-aid startup Frank, is reportedly seeking a presidential pardon from Donald Trump, thrusting a high-profile tech fraud case into the center of an already polarized debate over the use of executive clemency. The move matter
Claims about when “AGI” arrives, who is responsible for AI harms, and how much influence answer engines should quietly wield over public discourse can no longer be decided by engineers alone, according to a cluster of new papers on arXiv that collectively amount to a governance b