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2 days ago | 
eweek.com | J.R. Johnivan
The age of digital workers is no longer science fiction. According to a new report, it is on the horizon. AI-powered virtual employees could hit the workforce within a year, according to Jason Clinton, chief information security officer at Anthropic. In comments to Axios, Clinton noted that, while the technology is advancing fast, major security hurdles remain before fully autonomous digital workers become a reality. The concept behind agentic AI isn’t new.
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2 days ago | 
eweek.com | J.R. Johnivan
Approximately 92% of companies plan to invest more money into AI integration over the next few years, according to McKinsey research. And if the new startup Mechanize has its way, companies might see the entire global workforce replaced by next-gen AI sooner rather than later. Founded in April 2025 by well-known AI researcher Tamay Besiroglu, Mechanize is one of the latest AI startups to tackle the issue of workforce automation.
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6 days ago | 
techrepublic.com | J.R. Johnivan
Image: iStock/BeeBrightA bipartisan report, recently issued by the US Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), accuses DeepSeek of a series of subversive, illegal, and immoral practices. Moreover, the tech giant NVIDIA is also catching the ire of US government officials for supplying DeepSeek with the chips needed to create the AI models.
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1 week ago | 
techrepublic.com | J.R. Johnivan
Image: Andrii/Adobe StockA new court ruling could change the dominant role Google has held in the digital advertising market since the release of AdWords in late 2000. On April 17, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that Google illegally monopolized two markets: one for publisher ad servers and one for online ad exchanges. Antitrust investigators were unable to prove a monopoly in the advertiser ad networks market.
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1 week ago | 
eweek.com | J.R. Johnivan
Excessive social media use has long been associated with negative psychological effects. Now, the rise of agentic AI–AI-powered companions in particular—introduces a new set of risks for tech-savvy users.
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1 week ago | 
techrepublic.com | J.R. Johnivan
Some of the world’s leading chipmakers, including AMD and NVIDIA, continue to rely on overseas manufacturing through long-standing partnerships with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) even with potential tariffs looming. However, some of these companies are embracing chip manufacturing within the US; for instance, AMD and NVIDIA are working with TSMC’s expanding US footprint albeit using the manufacturing prowess of TSMC in different ways.
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1 week ago | 
eweek.com | J.R. Johnivan
Companies of all sizes are finding it increasingly difficult to differentiate between real and fake job applications — and much of the challenge is due to AI. Generative AI tools can easily be used to create headshots, mimic voices, and even fabricate credentials; in addition, hackers and scammers often use advanced AI writing tools to give them an edge when creating resumes and cover letters.
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2 weeks ago | 
techrepublic.com | J.R. Johnivan
While the legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI is scheduled to begin in the spring of 2026, the team at OpenAI has filed a countersuit accusing Musk of sustained harassment. The OpenAI/Musk feud thus farAlthough the roots of the feud go all the way back to the late 2010s and the early days of OpenAI, the legal battle between Musk and OpenAI officially began in February 2024.
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2 weeks ago | 
eweek.com | J.R. Johnivan
Two Microsoft employees were dismissed on Monday, April 7, following high-profile protests surrounding the Israeli military’s usage of Microsoft AI products. Ibtihal Aboussad, a former AI software engineer with Microsoft, was fired for disobedience, willful misconduct, willful neglect of duty, and just cause, according to the company. She interrupted a keynote speech of Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman at the company’s 50th anniversary event on Friday, April 4. “Mustafa, shame on you.
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2 weeks ago | 
eweek.com | J.R. Johnivan
The legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI, the company he co-founded alongside CEO Sam Altman and others, has been ongoing for a while. After recently agreeing to expedite the process, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has officially scheduled a jury trial to begin on March 16, 2026. 2015: OpenAI, the company behind one of the leading generative AI tools, ChatGPT, was founded.
