The University of Notre Dame and International Business Machines Corp. this week launched an applied ethics lab to research and promote the ethical application of advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence and quantum computing. The entity, called the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab, will conduct research, host conferences and produce policy guidelines for governments and businesses on the ethical development and use of emerging technologies. The lab will explore issues such as...

Fourteen security and risk management companies in the region hauled in $675 million through June, according to enterprise-technology venture-capital firm Work-Bench, which tracks local startups. “As a lot of organizations have been making the move to cloud, and paired with the fact that more people than ever are working from home, there’s an increased attack surface area,” said Jonathan Lehr, a Work-Bench co-founder and general partner, explaining the continuing interest in the sector. These...

July marked the first month of tech job declines since March, as employers across industries expanded net IT head count in April, May and June, according to CompTIA. While tech jobs remain among the most in-demand, some firms may be hesitant to fill openings as they assess how the economy develops, said Tim Herbert, CompTIA’s executive vice president for research and market intelligence. “Perhaps they want to see how the stimulus package is going to play out,” Mr. Herbert said. “They want to...

Last month, software developer Kevin Lacker tested GPT-3, the latest version of an artificial-intelligence language system developed by San Francisco-based software company OpenAI LP. The system isn’t yet public, but it set off a firestorm in tech circles after OpenAI gave select researchers and developers access so they could provide feedback. They observed its uncanny and unprecedented ability to answer trivia questions, generate long passages of coherent text, design simple software...

“How do you do that without creating unintended consequences?” said Casey Ellis, founder of San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup Bugcrowd Inc. “That’s a hard problem to solve, and I think she’s been pretty thoughtful about it.” A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Ms. Harris served as California’s attorney general as Silicon Valley companies such as Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc. grew into global titans and critics began questioning their influence. Newsletter Sign-up CIO Journal The...