Accenture expects about $250 million in charges in the November quarter, on top of $615 million recorded in the fourth quarter, for a total of $865 million. The restructuring program highlights the broader trend of companies adapting their workforce and…
The European Commission is preparing to issue preliminary findings saying that Meta’s Facebook and Instagram lack an adequate “notice and action mechanism” that would let users flag illegal posts for removal, according to two people familiar with the plans, who…
Microsoft disabled certain cloud and AI services used by Israel’s Ministry of Defense after finding preliminary evidence of their role in surveillance in Gaza and the West Bank.
Machine-learning models can speed up the discovery of new materials by making predictions and suggesting experiments. But most models today only consider a few specific types of data or variables. Compare that with human scientists, who work in a collaborative…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral Wikipedia is the most ambitious multilingual…
This week, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it has another customer for its first commercial fusion power plant, in Virginia. Eni, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, signed a billion-dollar deal to buy electricity from the facility. One…
When Kenneth Wehr started managing the Greenlandic-language version of Wikipedia four years ago, his first act was to delete almost everything. It had to go, he thought, if it had any chance of surviving. Wehr, who’s 26, isn’t from Greenland—he…
Annotating regions of interest in medical images, a process known as segmentation, is often one of the first steps clinical researchers take when running a new study involving biomedical images. For instance, to determine how the size of the brain’s…
Conversations around birth control usually focus on women, but Kevin Eisenfrats, one of the MIT Technology Review 2025 Innovators Under 35, is working to change that. His company, Contraline, is working toward testing new birth control options for men. Speakers: Kevin…
Earlier this week, the White House said Trump will declare that a deal to divest TikTok’s U.S. operations from its Chinese owner ByteDance will meet requirements set out in a 2024 law, and investors will include Oracle, and private equity…