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OpenAI wants to raise taxes on the rich, expand the welfare state, let workers decide how their employers use artificial intelligence, and give everyone a cut of the tech industry’s profits.Or so the company claims in a new vision statement.In that document, the AI titan argues that the government needs to enact sweeping economic reforms, so as to “share prosperity broadly” in “the age of intelligence.”The plan received far more attention than your typical policy white paper, due largely to its improbable author. Tech companies do not typically issue sweeping proposals for restructuring the American economy.This said, OpenAI’s vision statement…
Hasan Piker is 15 minutes late to our Zoom. He’s just gotten back from the gym, where he works out seven days a week, first thing in the morning, with no rest days. He’s been up since 5. In 45 minutes, he goes live for an eight-hour stream on Twitch. Everything is already set up, so we can chat right up until he needs to switch over, he tells me. There’s no buffer time.Piker is a man accustomed to operating under pressure, which is fortunate because the pressure has rarely been greater. To his audience—mostly young, white men—the 34-year-old far-left…
Many countries are pursuing social media bans for anyone under 16, but a recent poll is putting the effectiveness of such laws into question. The Molly Rose Foundation, a charity organization that focuses on preventing online harm, recently published a study that polled 1,050 Australian children between ages 12 and 15 in March. The study’s results showed that 61 percent of those between 12 and 15 who previously had access to affected social media platforms still have one or more active accounts.Australia made a first-in-the-world decision to ban social media for those under 16 years old, beginning on December 10.…
Stanford University researchers today released their highly anticipated 2026 AI Index Report, revealing a global landscape where artificial intelligence technology is being adopted at record-breaking pace, even as public trust in AI oversight and transparency hits new lows. The report by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, known as Stanford HAI, is now into its ninth year. It’s a comprehensive annual study that tracks the dizzying evolution of the AI industry, documenting a world in which America’s lead over Chinese innovation has all but evaporated, and where the technology is already reshaping global workforces and changing the course of…
When my wife and I travel, we usually watch shows and movies on our flight, but we always have to split a set of AirPods. So while one of our ears is enjoying the show, the other is forced to endure the crying baby behind us on the plane. But thanks to Apple’s Audio Sharing feature, we can enjoy a show together while using our own sets of AirPods, AirPods Pro or other headphones. Apple introduced Audio Sharing with iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 in 2024. It allows two pairs of compatible AirPods or Beats headphones to pair with a…
Canada’s B2B market is mature, competitive, and underserved by agencies that actually understand it. Here’s a list of the ones that do. Canada does not get enough credit in the global B2B conversation. Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal, these are not satellite cities catching overflow from the US. They are legitimate hubs with their own talent, their own enterprise market, and their own buyer dynamics that do not simply map onto American playbooks. Add the bilingual requirement across certain markets, the distinct regulatory environment under PIPEDA, and the geography that spans industries from tech to natural resources to financial services, and…
At some point in 2025, Windows stopped feeling like an operating system and started feeling like a demo for AI. Open Notepad to jot something down, and there it was, nudging you to summarize. Fire up Edge, and Copilot would politely wave from the sidebar. Even apps like Microsoft Paint began to feel different, not because they got simpler, but because they suddenly wanted to generate, edit, and enhance images for you. Microsoft wasn’t just adding AI, it was threading it into every corner of the experience. And for a while, that felt exciting. Then it started to feel… a…
If you Ask any bike shop owner or manager if they fix electric bikes, you get an interesting array of stories.“I know a guy who has lost a finger working on ebikes,” says MacKenzie Hardt, owner of Hardt Family Cyclery in Aurora, Colorado, and the former executive director of the nonprofit bike shop and community hub Bikes Together. Hardt has torn tendons in his own hand after accidentally triggering a cadence sensor that caused the wheel to spin out of control on the stand, even when the motor and battery were disconnected.He now has a message on the company voicemail…
Something has shifted in the air around AI. It is not a dramatic turn of events, the kind that usually heralds a new dawn, but more akin to a hushed room, where everyone suddenly looks around.This has happened over the last couple of days, as a few high-profile figures have begun to raise a question previously deemed as fantasy. Is AI safe, they are asking, in the event it does not do what they expected?That is the general theme in this report on why some are worried AI may eventually “go rogue.” As the pieces of AI are assembled and…
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 5, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire Tech Moves: Microsoft names corporate VP; Amazon exec departs for Google; Zoom names CPO Microsoft names a corporate VP for Identity & Network Access, while a CVP of product management departed for Zoom. … Read More Non-compete ban stirs optimism and uncertainty in Washington state — here’s…