The companies may have had other reasons for buying back so many shares when they did. Still, the jump in repurchases appears to poke a hole in the conventional thinking that the 1% buyback tax implemented in January has been too small to affect companies’ behavior.
A group of Alphabet Inc. contract workers are launching a unionization campaign, saying they need a greater voice at the company that has tasked them with work on its most high-profile products, including training generative AI answers in Google’s search engine and chatbot.
The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary’s privacy and technology panel released a framework to inform future legislation on artificial intelligence, the latest sign that Congress is weighing a regulatory response to the threats posed by AI.
In an analogy comparing Big Law mergers to the PGA Tour’s proposed tie-up with the Saudis, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan is cast in the role of a managing partner selling an unpopular deal to a deeply divided group, and he’s lost the most important currency for a leader of a partner-run organization: Trust.
Republicans are clamoring to clip the rule-making powers of federal agencies and return the authority to Congress.
The increasingly unfavorable odds of winning the annual lottery for H-1B specialty occupation visas have helped fuel new alternatives to secure visas for high-skilled foreign workers that aren’t subject to the statutory cap.
Nowhere in law might the anxiety over AI be more acute than among the 353,000 US paralegals and legal assistants. For all the errors and fake information that generative AI throws up, it’s undeniable that it can identify and categorize documents much faster than a paralegal, sometimes within seconds.
As tech companies the world over race to create AI services akin to ChatGPT, the underlying raw material required — data — is suddenly in demand like never before.
The US Patent and Trademark Office should create guidance on innovations that rely on artificial intelligence, Google’s head of patent policy told senators Wednesday.
Millions of Americans have taken advantage of telehealth during the coronavirus pandemic, so why has it taken so long for widespread adoption?
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