Science & Tech

Thousands of Silicon Valley employees have been laid off over the past year, often finding out the bad news by email. Hit hard by rampant inflation and over-hiring during the Covid pandemic, the US tech giants of the San Francisco Bay Area have faced one of the worst crises in their history.

Binance has seen outflows of over $1 billion in the past 24 hours, according to analysis firm Nansen. This is sparking questions on whether the crypto exchange can withstand its founder Changpeng Zhao pleading guilty to breaking US anti-money laundering laws and stepping down as CEO.

The ousted leader of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is returning to the company that fired him late last week, the latest in a saga that has shocked the artificial intelligence industry.

Commuters walk past the NYPD’s Knightscope K5 Autonomous Security Robot at the Times Square subway station, New York, NY, November 22, 2023. With a 360-camera placed on its head, the 420-pound robot is set up as a crime deterrent, and patrols with a 2 NYPD-officer escort from midnight to 6am.

Sam Altman is again OpenAI's CEO following a series of events that saw him fired and rehired in a few days.

Japan and South Korea said that North Korea has launched a suspected military spy satellite using banned ballistic missile technology.

The tech sector in Africa is expected to have another year of growth in 2023, despite a turndown in venture capital investment worldwide. There are big opportunities in connectivity – mobile internet, fibre, satellite, subsea cables – thanks in part to Africa’s growing population.

Tech giant IBM has pulled its ads from X after they were run alongside pro-Nazi posts. The news comes after Elon Musk endorsed an anti-Semitic post on the platform. Meanwhile, the largest semiconductor equipment maker in the US, Applied Materials, is under criminal investigation for potentially evading export restrictions on China's top chipmaker.

More than 140,000 Earth orbits and a quarter century on, the ISS is still a place of peaceful collaboration for science. Here's what you need to know.

Nepali lawmakers said internet providers had already begun blocking access to TikTok. It follows a similar move by India in 2020 to ban the Chinese social media app.

TikTok is facing criticism after a damning Amnesty International report accused it of pushing children and young people towards harmful mental health-related content. Our Science and Tech editor Julia Sieger tells us more.

Elon Musk's generative AI venture, xAI, has launched Grok, its rival to ChatGPT. The billionaire is hoping to capitalise on the artificial intelligence revolution. While the private sector races to profit from AI innovation, governments are scrambling to keep up, vowing to protect humanity from potential catastrophe. So what might AI regulation look like? We discuss the issue with French tech entrepreneur Denis Jacquet, founder and CEO of Top Cream.