By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury on Friday called on Group of Seven and European Union allies to impose “meaningful tariffs” on goods from China and India to halt their purchases of Russian oil and convened an emergency G7 finance meeting to discuss efforts to step up pressure on Moscow to end…
Elon Musk announced he wants to “simulate” software companies like Microsoft using only artificial intelligence. He’s even got a name for the new venture: Macrohard. Musk said in a Friday X post that his AI startup, xAI, is building a “purely AI software company called Macrohard.” “It’s a tongue-in-cheek name, but the project is very…
Tea, the anonymous dating advice app for women that has the internet buzzing, is in hot water after a data breach. Thousands of images of women, including selfies and photos of IDs that were used to verify their identity to join the app, were exposed because of the breach. “We can confirm that at 6:44…
Amazon is adopting Zoom as its official meeting app, replacing its own Chime. Chime, launched in 2017, was Amazon’s main meeting app and had limited external use. Amazon has also started rolling out Microsoft’s 365 tools. Amazon is making Zoom its official meeting application across the company, according to an internal memo obtained by Business…
News of more layoffs for federal workers is prompting increased concern about the repercussions of those cuts.“There are ways to cull federal service. This is not the way to do it,” said a local federal worker who asked not to be identified.On Thursday and Friday, the federal government laid off thousands of workers as part…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A former senior adviser to the U.S. Federal Reserve, John Harold Rogers, was arrested on charges he conspired to steal Fed trade secrets for the benefit of China, the Justice Department announced on Friday. Rogers, who worked as a senior adviser in the Fed’s division of international finance from 2010 until 2021, allegedly…