Amazon has long been synonymous with workplace surveillance. With the introduction of “smart delivery glasses,” the logistics giant may soon ensure that not a moment of its drivers’ time on the clock will go unwatched.

A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not, and attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.

How AI is changing work in the tech sector, from the workers who build, deploy, manage, evaluate and use this technology. A Tech Workers' Inquiry from UTAW.

The online delivery company agreed to give pay relief to workers and to accept monitoring of its methods after it underpaid — or didn’t pay — 264,000 workers.

OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.

AI isn't some new form of "alien mind," according to Jensen Huang. It's just hardware and software, so safety can be engineered by each AI product maker.

While 52% of likely voters said they would vote yes on Proposition 40, they are also lining up behind two competing November ballot measures that could nullify the wealth tax.

Across the country, Americans from all stripes are calling on politicians to dump Big Tech.

Listen now (64 mins) | A conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about “end times fascism” in the tech industry.

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

Oracle’s latest layoffs come just days after the company reported a 121% jump in cloud infrastructure revenue and continued its costly AI data center buildout.

Algorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present. They make them predictably poor into the future.

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham collected the testimony of 24 insiders who helped remotely target Gazans’ homes. They explain how they got these self-professed ‘small cogs’ to talk about the killing

California’s Proposition 40 would tax roughly 200 billionaires to fund health care for millions. Google cofounder Sergey Brin and friends have responded by inventing a new kind of pressure group: a lobby whose only client is the billionaire class itself.

The appeal came as California lawmakers were crafting one of the country’s strictest proposals for regulating kids’ use of AI chatbots like ChatGPT.

California AG Rob Bonta discussed the states' antitrust case to block the Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. Discovery merger with CNBC's David Faber.

Robotics companies are competing to collect videos of humans stitching shoes and welding steel to give their machines new skills.

Drivers for companies like Uber and Lyft are wildly exploited, largely because they’re misclassified as independent contractors. Recent union deals to protect those drivers leave them as independent contractors — just the way the rideshare bosses want it.

Almost a third of ride-hailing drivers in California have signaled they want union representation, a key step in gaining certification to bargain with Uber and Lyft.

California and other states seeking more than $1 trillion in penalties on Meta will go to court over allegations the social media giant knowingly designed its sites to be addictive to minors.

Here's how to opt out of Twitch's new generative AI training setting.

Join the Engelberg Center for the launch of Clarissa Redwine's and JS Tan's Against Tech Oligarchy

Some retailers mine your data, down to how long your mouse hovers, to jack up prices to as much as they think you will pay. It's called surveillance pricing, and California legislators seem ambivalent...

Progressive US senator urges Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to ‘stop building machines that humans cannot control’

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As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

Since the release of ChatGPT in 2023, predictions of widespread job loss have littered headlines. Silicon Valley’s tech titans claim they will reshape the global economy with the creation of...

Since the release of ChatGPT in 2023, predictions of widespread job loss have littered headlines. Silicon Valley’s tech titans claim they will reshape the global economy with the creation of...

What We Will is a worker-led organization for workers across sectors impacted by rapid technological change. We founded What We Will in response to mass layoffs in 2025-2026 as part of the Tech Worker...

"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...

Tens of millions of Americans have criminal records that can be barriers to employment. An AI-powered app is helping those eligible to expunge their records at a pace not seen before.

Housing has long been the largest source of wealth for middle income families. But many renters cannot afford to buy as housing prices soar, which could fuel a generational divide.

AI is raising prices for Americans – and not just electricity bills.

AI’s decimation of call center jobs has begun.