Thousands of Reddit Inc. forums today switched into private mode in protest over the company’s controversial changes to its application programming interface, API. At least 7,000 pages engaged in voluntary blackouts, which restrict the public from seeing those pages. This ...

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, published an almost 7,000-word blog post today that presents the rise of artificial intelligence in almost utopian terms and scathingly contradicts the grim outlook painted by various AI skeptics. As ...

Linda Yaccarino began her job as Twitter Inc. chief executive today, reportedly much earlier than expected. Prior to taking the post, Yaccarino had worked for four years as head of NBCUniversal Media LLC’s advertising and partnership team. Back in December, ...

Airbnb sued New York City today in an attempt to prevent the city’s officials from enforcing an ordinance that the app says will effectively end its business in the city. The ordinance, Local Law 18, was drawn up last year, ...

Amazon.com Inc. will pay more than $30 million to settle two separate lawsuits brought by the Federal Trade Commission, it was reported today. One of the lawsuits, brought by both the FTC and Justice Department, accused the company of collecting ...