Critical 2024 AI policy blueprint: Unlocking potential and safeguarding against workplace risks

January 27, 2024

Richard Marcus Contributor Richard Marcus is the head of information security at AuditBoard. Many have described 2023 as the year of AI, and the term made several “word of the year” lists. While it has positively impacted productivity and efficiency in the workplace, AI has also presented a number of emerging risks for businesses. For […]

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People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before.

January 27, 2024
MIT Technology Review is celebrating our 125th anniversary with an online series that draws lessons for the future from our past coverage of technology.  It was 1938, and the pain of the Great Depression was still very real. Unemployment in the US was around 20%. Everyone was worried about jobs. In 1930, the prominent British…

Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal leaves board

January 27, 2024

Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal has resigned from the e-commerce group’s board, the two said Saturday. Sachin Bansal, the Bengaluru-headquartered startup’s other co-founder, left the board in 2018 after scuffle with the investors. Binny Bansal, who reserved the rights to stay on Flipkart’s board for as long as he preferred, cited conflict of interest with his […]

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Spotify calls Apple’s DMA compliance plan ‘extortion’ and a ‘complete and total farce’

January 26, 2024

Count Spotify among those not thrilled with how Apple has chosen to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which sets the stage for sideloading apps, alternative app stores, browser choice, and more. On Friday, the streaming music company issued its response to Apple’s new DMA rules, calling the new fees imposed on developers […]

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Flexport may lay off workers yet again

January 26, 2024

Flexport, a logistics company with $2.7 billion in funding, is reportedly planning additional layoffs.

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