--- description: Perrigo is a correspondent at TIME, based in the London bureau. He covers the tech industry, focusing on the companies reshaping our world in strange and unexpected ways. His investigation ‘Inside Facebook’s African Sweatshop’ was a finalist for the 2022 Orwell Prize. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production ---  # Billy Perrigo  ## Billy Perrigo Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Perrigo is a correspondent at TIME, based in the London bureau. He covers the tech industry, focusing on the companies reshaping our world in strange and unexpected ways. His investigation ‘[Inside Facebook’s African Sweatshop](https://time.com/6147458/facebook-africa-content-moderation-employee-treatment/)’ was a finalist for the 2022 Orwell Prize.  ## Billy Perrigo Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Jul 14, 2026 ### [Mozilla Wants to Build a ‘Rebel Alliance’ for Open-Source AI](https://time.com/article/2026/07/13/open-source-ai-mozilla-rebel-alliance/) In its first "state of open-source AI" report, the Firefox maker lays out its vision of an AI indust... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Jun 23, 2026 ### [Can the Cold War Teach Us How to Slow Down AI?](https://time.com/article/2026/06/23/ai-slowdown-cold-war-verification/) No one in AI trusts their rivals to slow down—so everyone races ahead. New tech could help break tha... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Jun 4, 2026 ### [Inside the AI Boom's Arctic Outpost](https://time.com/article/2026/06/03/ai-norway-nscale-data-center/) Above the Arctic Circle, Nscale is turning a remote Norwegian valley into one of Europe’s largest AI... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  May 22, 2026 ### [A Tale of Two Anthropics](https://time.com/article/2026/05/22/anthropic-claude-code-jack-clark-ai-safety/) Anthropic wants developers to build faster with Claude. It also wants policymakers to understand tha... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  May 8, 2026 ### [A Robot (Sort of) Made Me Lunch](https://time.com/article/2026/05/06/robot-ai-food-restaurant-kaikaku/) Inside Kaikaku AI’s London pilot, where the startup’s food-assembly robot is testing whether automat... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Apr 28, 2026 ### [Musk and Altman Head to Court](https://time.com/article/2026/04/28/elon-musk-and-sam-altman-head-to-court/) Musk's lawsuit could shape the future of OpenAI. [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Apr 2, 2026 ### [People Want Jobs, Not UBI](https://time.com/article/2026/04/02/people-want-jobs-not-ubi/) Plus: does Nvidia suffer from an "innovator's dilemma"? [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Mar 27, 2026 ### [African Content Moderators Have Worse Mental Health than Global Peers, Study Finds](https://time.com/article/2026/03/26/africa-content-moderators-mental-health-study/) A new study finds African content moderators report worse mental health than global peers, amid low ... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Mar 17, 2026 ### [The AI War Game That Looks Like Reality](https://time.com/article/2026/03/17/intelligence-rising-ai-war-game-faculty-marc-warner/) Plus, our day with killer robots [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Mar 11, 2026 ### [The Pentagon’s Side of the Anthropic Battle](https://time.com/article/2026/03/11/pentagon-anthropic-battle-emil-michael/) Read the full transcript of our conversation with Emil Michael, the Pentagon official who led negoti... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Mar 11, 2026 ### [The Most Disruptive Company in the World](https://time.com/article/2026/03/11/anthropic-claude-disruptive-company-pentagon/) How Anthropic's battle with the Pentagon became a fight for its future [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Feb 24, 2026 ### [Exclusive: Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge](https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/) In an abrupt shift, the safety-conscious AI company may release future models without ironclad safet... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Feb 20, 2026 ### [World Leaders Near Declaration on AI, Indian Government Says](https://time.com/7379949/india-ai-impact-summit-us-china-middle-powers/) India’s technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said at least 70 signatories were expected to commit to... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Feb 17, 2026 ### [Why One Insider Turned Against Big Tech](https://time.com/7378739/dex-hunter-torricke-tech-ai/) He did PR for Zuckerberg, Musk, and Google. Now he says he "only told half the story." [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Feb 10, 2026 ### [Is Sam Altman’s Orb Missing Its Moment?](https://time.com/7377356/sam-altmans-orb-bot-moltbook/) After Moltbook’s viral bot surge, Sam Altman’s Orb faces questions about whether it’s ready to prove... 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