Zia Chishti Steps Down as C.E.O. of Afiniti
Zia Chishti resigned from the artificial-intelligence company he founded after a former employee accused him of sexual misconduct.Read More
Year: 2021
U.S. Rests Its Case in the Elizabeth Holmes Trial
Defense lawyers are expected to argue that the founder of Theranos, the blood-testing start-up, failed but did not commit fraud.Read More
BuzzFeed Will Start Publicly Trading in Early December: BZFD
The company still loses money, but its revenue rose 20 percent in the third quarter. Investors who want to own a piece can do...
Can a Machine Learn Morality?
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Researchers at a Seattle A.I. lab say they have built a system that makes ethical judgments. But its judgments can be as confusing as...
ConstitutionDAO, a “decentralized autonomous organization,” had raised more than $40 million to bid for the artifact.Read More
Elizabeth Holmes trial: Journalist who helped ‘raise to prominence’ Theranos CEO takes witness stand
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Elizabeth Holmes trial: Journalist who helped ‘raise to prominence’ Theranos CEO takes witness stand
Journalist Roger Parloff, who wrote the first major cover story on Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes and later issued a retraction, was called to testify in...
A bipartisan group of 10 state attorneys general have launched an investigation into Meta, the social media company formerly known as Facebook, focused on...
Hundreds of Activision Blizzard employees sign petition demanding CEO Bobby Kotick’s resignation
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Activision Blizzard’s longtime CEO Bobby Kotick is facing mounting pressure from employees to step down amid the company’s ongoing sexual harassment scandal.
Tim Sweeney is on a mission.
The director of the United Nations’ World Food Programme laid out a plan to spend $6.6 billion to combat world hunger — a direct...