Technology

Winter has come early for Apple, and it might last a while. The world’s largest company by market value has become worth considerably less over the past three months. Apple’s share price has slid 11% since the company reported its fiscal third-quarter results on Aug. 3, erasing nearly $400 billion Read more…

Citing an “unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security,” Canada banned Chinese messaging application WeChat and Russian antivirus program Kaspersky on government-issued mobile devices. The ban was announced after an assessment by Canada’s chief information officer that Tencent-owned WeChat and applications made by Moscow-based Kaspersky “present an unacceptable level Read more…

President Joe Biden signed a wide-ranging executive order on artificial intelligence Monday, setting the stage for some industry regulations and funding for the U.S. government to further invest in the technology. The order is broad, and its focuses range from civil rights and industry regulations to a government hiring spree. Read more…

The seven industrial countries known as the “G7” — America, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, and Britain — will agree on a code of conduct Monday for companies developing advanced AI systems. The news comes as governments seek to mitigate the risks and potential misuse of the technology. The 11-point Read more…

For the last two decades, our social networking and social media platforms have been universes unto themselves. Each has its own social graph, charting who you follow and who follows you. Each has its own feed, its own algorithms, its own apps, and its own user interfaces (though they’ve all Read more…

Max Tegmark, a professor of physics and AI researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the world was “witnessing a race to the bottom that must be stopped.” Tegmark organized an open letter published in April, signed by thousands of tech industry figures including Elon Musk and the Apple Read more…