Tech

Microsoft Xbox CEO overhauls leadership amid sinking sales: 'We need to evolve how we work'

Asha Sharma, the former Instacart and Meta executive who took over Xbox at Microsoft, said the unit doesn't spend enough time with developers and players.

Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it

Chats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most experts say he is being misled by mimicry

In this machine age we must hold on to imperfect writing. It is not flawed. It is human

We need the mess of it all. Without it, what remains are sentences that are technically flawless but emotionally vacant

Pennsylvania suing Character AI, claiming chatbot posed as a medical professional

Updated on: May 5, 2026 / 10:16 AM EDT / CBS News

Coinbase to lay off 700 workers as cryptocurrency exchange embraces AI

Coinbase announced on Tuesday that it is cutting 700 jobs, or roughly 14% of its workforce, as the cryptocurrency trading company turns to artificial intelligence to reduce costs and boost productivity.

Lubaina Himid’s British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Review

Amid a calming soundtrack of lapping waves and cooing birds, workers in brightly coloured paintings share glances that say: ‘What the hell are we doing here?’ But isn’t there more to not belonging than this show suggests?

Ford’s secret EV unit emerges from shadows, still bullish on new pickup amid market slowdown

The "Universal Electric Vehicle" platform is expected to be key to Ford transforming its EV unit from billions of dollars in annual losses to breakeven by 2029.

Body as masterpiece: nipples, skeletons and tattoos dominate at record-breaking Met Gala

Opening of ‘the dressed body’ show inspires Beyoncé, Kardashians and Skepta, as others pay tribute to fashion moments in art history

Brazil caught up in craze for whistling-only WhatsApp groups

Some chats can get up to 600 voice notes a day and reach the 1,024-member limit in less than 24 hours

An AI version of Milton’s Paradise Lost is fundamentally unworthy of one of the great works of art

Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary wants to bring the epic poem to the big screen using the power of artificial intelligence. It can’t be any good

The Odyssey: New Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Classical Greek Epic Released Online

Trailer offers glimpses of Matt Damon as mythological hero Odysseus, Tom Holland as his son Telemachus and Anne Hathaway as his wife, Penelope

Is Jeff Bezos the real villain of The Devil Wears Prada 2?

The film’s villain is a conniving tech oligarch seeking to buy his way into fashion’s inner circle. Sound familiar?