After a decade of building the future, tech’s new guard is going back to the American past, spurring a funding frenzy in defense technology

The number of likely departures prompted Musk to ease his return-to-office edict and managers to meet to decide which engineers to ask back.

Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight.

Advocates of greater diversity at Google say they are being harassed and targeted on right-wing websites.

Christchurch could be the moment Silicon Valley decides to finally treat white nationalism the way it's been treating ISIS for years.

Engineers and advocates of the lowest-ranked caste say that tech companies don't understand caste bias and haven't explicitly prohibited caste-based discrimination.

Dozens of scientists funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative urged Mark Zuckerberg to enforce stricter policies around the spread of misinformation and incitements to violence.

Thenmozhi Soundararajan was uninvited from giving a talk at Google about caste bias after some employees said such discrimination doesn't exist.

Timnit Gebru is launching Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR) to document AI’s harms on marginalized groups

The abrupt firing of one of the most high-profile Black women in AI shows that Google is pushing back on the kind of scrutiny that it claims to welcome.

At The Post, she will build on her decade of experience covering technology from San Francisco and New York.

Employees confronted CEO Satya Nadella after weeks of complaints on an internal discussion about lack of advancement and sexual harassment.

Black employee resource groups at tech companies find themselves putting in more hours at their unpaid second job in order to help their employers fix systemic issues with race.

Instacart, Amazon Flex, Shipt and DoorDash added hundreds of thousands of workers to meet demand. These workers signed up hoping for flexibility, but instead encountered low tips and difficulty...

An analysis of a chatbot data set by The Washington Post reveals the proprietary, personal, and often offensive websites that go into an AI’s training data.

Timnit Gebru, a star researcher who has criticized the company’s lack of diversity, emailed co-workers that she felt “constantly dehumanized." Her managers, she said, abruptly fired her shortly after.

Ifeoma Ozoma and Aerica Shimizu Banks claim they were underpaid, faced racist comments, and were subject to retaliation for raising complaints. Other women are now coming forward with their own...

Student-led groups focused on AI Safety have popped up at Stanford University and other schools, backed by billionaires fixated on the AI apocalypse

Google will no longer bar employees from suing the company for discrimination or wrongful termination, or from joining together in class-action suits.

Dispute at software startup is rare case of tech workers trying to unionize---and even rarer example of the government coming to their aid.

Thenmozhi Soundararajan was uninvited from giving a talk at Google about caste bias after some employees said such discrimination doesn't exist.

In a survey conducted by Girls Who Code, teen female engineers report that even their very first encounters with tech companies raised red flags.

The company subsequently refused to comment on whether it would decline to participate in building such a registry, or endorse data collection policies championed by a group of Silicon Valley...

Google’s shifting moral calculus around China illustrates the tech giant’s transformation from an organization that portrayed itself as an exception to corporate norms into one driven by business...

RAICES, which received more than $20 million in donations through a viral Facebook campaign, wanted Salesforce to drop its contract with a US border agency.

Engineers and employees from major tech companies — including Google, IBM, Slack, and Stripe — have pledged never to build a database of people based on their religious beliefs.

Google for years has been celebrated for trying to fix Silicon Valley’s race gap. But while Google had a head start on building relationships with HBCUs, critics say its track record also exposes...

Two employees who helped organize a walkout of thousands of workers say they've either been demoted or been told to drop concerns about ethics.

As Facebook's bias is under federal scrutiny, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg points to his philanthropic arm, CZI. But Black employees there say his efforts are hamstrung by race bias and fear of...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified before the Senate on AI like ChatGPT as regulations and oversight are being considered.

Mark Zuckerberg’s likability blitz isn’t a presidential campaign, it’s a focus group for his 1.8 billion constituents, and part of a high-stakes campaign to win your likes.

Gwyneth Paltrow, Mila Kunis and other celebs push NFTs as a way for women to get rich.

Leaked documents describe weapons and cite potential "gunfight."

Vanessa Bain was once an Instacart evangelist, but after drastic pay changes she became one of the most effective agitators against the grocery delivery startup, in what has become a stark test of...

Kevin Cernekee, a conservative firebrand inside Google, kept a low public profile. Then, WIRED's reporting propelled him to Fox News—and Trump's tweets.

As unease with Big Tech grows, some prescribe a slower, less viral online existence. "Eat independent sites, mostly not Facebook."

In a new filing, the US Department of Labor says Oracle underpaid women and minorities at its headquarters complex by $400 million over four years.

A new wave of wealthy investors is moving to the island. This time they say the locals can get rich too.

In a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and other top executives, employees ask the company to permanently suspend Donald Trump and investigate Twitter's role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

AI image generators like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E amplify bias in gender, race and beyond, despite efforts to detoxify the data fueling these results.

Thenmozhi Soundararajan was uninvited from giving a talk at Google about caste bias after some employees said such discrimination doesn't exist.

Employees ask GitHub to cancel ICE contract: ‘We cannot offset human lives with money’

Educators believe that computer games can be the gateway — and female mentors are the X factor.

This story began with a simple question: if a facial recognition system processes a lot of pictures of a child, will it recognize that person when he or she grows up? If I were to upload all my...

Effective altruism, a mix of 18th-century utilitarianism and modern ideas about happiness, helped deflect scrutiny from Bankman-Fried's dubious crypto operation.

Since April, DALL-E has triggered an explosion of images generated using artificial intelligence. But the technology is spreading faster than creators can shape norms around its use.

A Google study found some male engineers were set to receive smaller raises this year. The finding comes amid analyses that the company discriminates against women.

Shipt workers draw most of their income from gratuities, and many say the recent disruptions speak to an emerging two-tier employment system.

Silicon Valley's most controversial must-read loses its two lead editors in the past month. WiIl lit survive?

It's on.

The fact that “Jew haters” can be targeted isn’t surprising if you understand how the business model works.