Tech Company Layoffs: How Are Amazon, Meta and Others Pivoting? | Tech News Briefing Podcast | WSJ

After a period of aggressive hiring to meet heightened demand for online services during the pandemic, tech companies are now laying off many of those workers. And tech bosses are saying “mea culpa” for the miscalculation.

WSJ reporter Dana Mattioli joins host Zoe Thomas to talk through the shift and what it all means for the tech sector going forward.

How did an AI chatbot go viral? – BBC News

A new chatbot which generates convincing human-like answers in response to users’ prompts has passed one million users in less than a week, the project behind it has said. ChatGPT was publicly released by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research firm whose founders included Elon Musk. But the company has warned it can produce problematic answers and exhibit biased behaviour. Open AI said it’s “eager to collect user feedback to aid our ongoing work to improve this system”. This film is from Click – the BBC’s weekly technology show.