The Defense Innovation Unit released its initial "Responsible AI Guidelines" document Nov. 15, with intent to operationalize the Defense Department's ethical principles of artificial intelligence into

Good Jobs First, a policy resource center, estimated that Amazon has received around $4.2B in US subsidies through property tax abatements, corporate income tax credits and sales tax exemptions to expand its corporate footprint in "opportunity zones" throughout the country.

Americans widely distrust algorithms used across different industries. Both liberals and conservatives overwhelmingly agree that there should be public or government oversight of the use of algorithms (71%).

Politicians and their immediate families bought $267 million and sold $364 million worth of assets this year, of which 60% were company stocks. Republicans bought $100 million worth of stock versus $75 million for Democrats.

Such organizations often deal in sensitive issues, like mental health, addiction, and reproductive rights—and many are feeding data about website visitors to corporations

An extensive array of research reports, online employee debates and drafts of presentations to senior management, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, offer an unparalleled look inside the social-media giant’s failings—and its unwillingness or inability to address them.

As the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund kick off next week, the Bretton Woods institutions are mired in scandal. I want to set aside the broader political calculations and focus on the case at hand: the Doing Business scandal. Facts matter, and the credibility of the World Bank and IMF matters beyond current leadership. So let’s review what we actually know about the data manipulation, how it arose, and who may be to blame, starting at the very beginning.

A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people’s movements

New research shows insider trading is everywhere. So far, no one seems to care.

You pay for Facebook with your privacy. And it keeps raising the price.

Lawyers from top accounting firms do brief stints in the Treasury Department, with the expectation of big raises when they return.

For decades, the law has sought to restrain nursing homes from trying to control the behavior of dementia patients with antipsychotic drugs, which are known to have adverse health effects.

Veronica Wu serves on the board of VF Corporation, one of the world's biggest apparel companies.

WhatsApp assures users that no one can see their messages — but the company has an extensive monitoring operation and regularly shares personal information with prosecutors.

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VPNs promise privacy, but The Markup found their apps and websites full of trackers

When employees are paid more, they give more. Going above market pay might sound like a fantasy, but in a growing number of companies it’s becoming a profitable reality. Peek inside workplaces that have reinvented their pay structures to give employees their worth and more—and explore the science of how it can pay off for everyone in the long run.

It made headlines around the world: a New Jersey sandwich shop with a soaring stock price. Was it just speculation, or something stranger?

Bitfinex and Tether will admit no wrongdoing in their $18.5 million settlement with the New York Attorney General's office.

Lured by the aura of degrees from top-flight institutions, many master’s students at universities across the U.S. took on debt beyond what their pay would support, an analysis of federal data on borrowers found.

Google's Official Digital Marketing Publication. Discover how to run more intentionally inclusive meetings with these practices and tips.

Salary transparency is intended to help address inequities. But making the number public doesn’t seem to move the needle.

The company's cutthroat corporate culture cripples critical coverage—and your right to know.

By rooting through files stored on Google Cloud, a researcher says he recovered 13 early coronavirus sequences that had disappeared from a database last year.

An excerpt from the book ‘Nightmare Scenario’ details how Trump's illness was far more severe than the White House acknowledged. Advisers thought it would alter his pandemic response. They were wrong.

When hospitals acquire physician practices, it can influence how individual physicians practice medicine, two new studies show.

Some companies are refusing to hire Coloradans for remote work because they don’t want to reveal what they pay under the state's law requiring a salary range be posted with a job opening.

When I worked at the social network, I saw how users in the Global South shared their accounts with shady middlemen. The practice erodes public trust and is corrupting civil discourse around the world.

She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?