Activision Blizzard Agrees to Pay  Million to Settle Workforce Allegations

Activision Blizzard Agrees to Pay $35 Million to Settle Workforce Allegations

Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay $35 million (nearly Rs. 290 crore) to settle allegations over the video game maker’s handling of workplace complaints and violations of whistleblower protection rules, USĀ financial regulators said on Friday. The Securities and Exchange Commission said the company knew employee retention issues were “a particularly…

ChatGPT Plus Paid Subscription Plan Announced: The Promises, Pitfalls and Panic

ChatGPT Plus Paid Subscription Plan Announced: The Promises, Pitfalls and Panic

Excitement around ChatGPT — an easy-to-use AI chatbot that can deliver an essay or computer code upon request and within seconds — has sent schools into panic and turned Big Tech green with envy. The potential impact of ChatGPT on society remains complicated and unclear even as its creator Wednesday…

Microsoft Rolls Out ChatGPT-Powered Teams Premium, Service Starts at  a Month

Microsoft Rolls Out ChatGPT-Powered Teams Premium, Service Starts at $7 a Month

Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out a premium Teams messaging offering powered by ChatGPT to simplify meetings using the AI chatbot that has taken Silicon Valley by a storm. The premium service will cost $7 (roughly Rs. 600) per month in June before increasing to $10 (roughly Rs. 800) in July,…

ChatGPT Plus Paid Subscription Plan Announced: The Promises, Pitfalls and Panic

ChatGPT Usage Banned in French University Over Concerns About Fraud, Plagiarism

Sciences Po, one of France’s top universities, has banned the use of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-based chatbot that can generate coherent prose, to prevent fraud and plagiarism. ChatGPT is a free programme that generates original text about virtually any subject in response to a prompt, including articles, essays, jokes and…

Big Tech Is Firing Employees by the Thousands. Why? and How Worried Should We Be?

Big Tech Is Firing Employees by the Thousands. Why? and How Worried Should We Be?

Tech companies are always in the news, usually touting the next big thing. However, the tech news cycle recently hasn’t been dominated by the latest gadget or innovation. Instead, layoffs are in the headlines. In the last year, more than 70,000 people globally have been laid off by Big Tech…

PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan Met EU’s Antitrust Chief to Discuss Microsoft’s Activision Deal

PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan Met EU’s Antitrust Chief to Discuss Microsoft’s Activision Deal

Sony’s gaming chief Jim Ryan met EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager on Wednesday to discuss Microsoft’s $69 billion (about Rs. 5,62,647 crore) bid for Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The meeting came as the EU competition watchdog prepares to warn…

ChatGPT Professional Plan Priced at  Per Month Surfaces Online, Firm Yet to Announce Premium Plans

ChatGPT Professional Plan Priced at $42 Per Month Surfaces Online, Firm Yet to Announce Premium Plans

ChatGPT, the chatbot launched by OpenAI, has reportedly started offering a Professional Plan to its users at the cost of $42 (roughly Rs. 3,400) per month. No official announcement has been made by the company yet. However, OpenAI shared a waitlist for a professional tier with listed perks earlier this…

Microsoft Reportedly Hosted Sting Concert in Davos a Night Before Laying Off 10,000 Workers

Microsoft Reportedly Hosted Sting Concert in Davos a Night Before Laying Off 10,000 Workers

A night before Microsoft announced it was laying off 10,000 people, the technology giant hosted a private concert by artist Sting for about 50 people including its top executives in Davos during the annual World Economic Forum meeting, a media report said. The Wall Street Journal said in a report…

Microsoft Reportedly Hosted Sting Concert in Davos a Night Before Laying Off 10,000 Workers

Microsoft Unveils VALL-E, Audio AI That Can Simulate Any Voice From 3-Second Prompts

Microsoft researchers recently announced VALL-E, a new text-to-speech AI model that can accurately mimic a person’s voice when given a three-second audio sample. Once it has learned a specific voice, VALL-E can synthesise audio of that person saying anything—while attempting to retain the speaker’s emotional tone. When combined with other…