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The Justice Department’s $400 million deal to settle TikTok child privacy allegations has puzzled Beltway insiders over its easy terms and an unusual lack of transparency.

Apple treated Tim Cook to a farewell tour as he wrapped up his 15-year tenure as CEO on Monday and passed the reins to successor John Ternus – who faces challenges ranging from a troubled AI rollou…...

AI has sparked widespread concern about its potential effects — though the evidence for some of the most alarming predictions remains less certain.

In a test, popular AI chatbots mostly debunked falsehoods spread by other countries and avoided uncritically spreading falsehoods better than search engines. AI summaries above search results fared worse.

Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.

Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.

The tribe invokes a 232-year-old treaty as Trump celebrates the proposed name change with bizarre AI memes...

A new report details startling security breaches by OpenAI agents—using a model that helped cause them.

Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.

Report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.

Hospitals, technology firms and other companies could soon be at risk from AI-enabled cyberattacks, according to a new open letter from more than 100 signatories.

Actor Ben McKenzie talks about his documentary, “Everyone Is Lying to You for Money,” which examines the scammers and fraudsters behind cryptocurrency.

Stanley Druckenmiller said he was ‘proud of using it’ as wider media grapples with parameters around AI use...

Breitbart News, in coordination with Innovation Council Action, holds a policy event discussing the rise of artificial intelligence titled "AI is Here: What to Fear, What to Embrace."...

The education secretary says AI can transform learning, even as evidence about its effectiveness remains limited...

A local ordinance would ban the online retailer and similar businesses from using subcontractors for its deliveries.

AI models have hacked out of their training environments and tried to deceive their creators. It’s probably still not enough.

The AI backlash is now hitting the six Senate races that Cook Political Report rates as toss-ups heading into November.

The Iran war has slashed transit traffic at Middle Eastern airports, creating opportunities for hubs in Asia and beyond — at least for now.

Consumer advocates are urging the FTC to examine whether AI developers are hurting competition and reducing public access to source material.

CNN’s Max Foster and Hadas Gold discuss OpenAI rolling out new safeguards.

Spotify, LinkedIn and others are trying to dig out of a digital sewage heap full of low-quality content made with artificial intelligence.

Americans across the country say “Get The Flock Out” to the widespread license plate cameras that record their movements and collect their data.

Both candidates are trying to surf the anti-tech wave — without fully betraying the AI boom’s beneficiaries.

Amazon is reportedly buying massive quantities of rare books, scanning their pages to train its AI models and destroying the tomes in the process.

He's welcoming leaders of crypto firms and prediction markets—industries he's deeply invested in—to discuss regulation.

World Liberty Financial is reportedly backing a Hong Kong AI venture linked to Chinese companies restricted by the U.S. government.

Oliver Larkin is trying to unseat Rep. Jared Moskowitz, who is backed by AIPAC donors and an artificial intelligence super PAC.

A Kentucky mother and daughter turned down a life-changing offer for their farmland. The ensuing drama has left the town divided.

President Donald Trump was sued in federal court Wednesday to stop him from making money off a new, paid service at his Truth Social company offering early, exclusive access to his posts on U.S. po…...

The Treasury Department announced the approval of a banking charter for World Liberty Financial Friday, a company founded by Trump family members.

I asked AI chatbots to help me build an autonomous attack drone. They said yes.

Tech companies are not modelling their own claims of the technology giving people more free time.

Journalist Gil Durán argues that a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — and that they should be governing in its place.

Meta is taking a stance on one of the biggest debates shaping the future of artificial intelligence: Should AI models be open for anyone to tinker with and modify, or should they be tightly controlled by the companies making them?

A pro-Paxton Super PAC remade LBJ's "daisy girl" spot by swapping nuclear armageddon for anti-trans fearmongering.

Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester demands security logs and transcripts from OpenAI and Anthropic after AI agents allegedly hacked third parties during testing.

Elon Musk's rocket, satellite and AI provider reported quarterly revenue of $7.8 billion, topping Wall Street forecasts.

Cybercriminals are increasingly using artificial intelligence to target people: Americans lost more than $893 million from AI-related crimes last year, according to the FBI.

The proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.

Yes, our digital infrastructure is vulnerable to AI attacks. But we’re not doomed.

The program is an effort to make products more affordable as artificial intelligence sends some component prices soaring.

The lawsuit from xAI comes as a Minnesota law that takes effect Saturday bans apps that can create fake, sexualized pictures of people.

James Comey’s lawyers say Secret Service illegally tracked him to develop case around his ‘8647’ seashell post...

AI threatens to undermine man’s relationship with God and with his fellow man.

California, Oregon and Washington have some of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, as AI reshapes the West Coast’s dominant tech industry by sharply slowing hiring in that sector.

How to make AI work for workers...

Moderate Democrats want to put a stop to Trump’s meme coin self-dealing. But that might cut off campaign donations from crypto interests.

Pastor Ezra Jin’s release is a reason to celebrate, but the U.S. shouldn’t rest until Lai is freed.

A model undergoing testing at OpenAI escaped the lab and hacked into another company’s server.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune is planning a vote on crypto market structure legislation as soon as next week despite Democratic criticism that the bill would do little to curb President Donald Trump’s rapidly accumulating crypto wealth.

OpenAI says some of its experimental AI models left a test environment with no human direction and hacked its way onto a different company’s real production systems while trying to “cheat” on a cybersecurity test.

AI companies are stripping universities of their best researchers.

Here's how to choose what to do about it ... or not.

Trump’s Department of Justice has stepped in to protect it.

Two-thirds of the Michigan congressman's campaign cash last quarter came from AIPAC bundlers after he invested millions in crypto.

In his first testimony as the new chairman of the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh shared his views on a range of topics from artificial intelligence to immigration.

Mayo Clinic, one of the world’s most well-known hospital systems, is using AI in hopes of improving patient care and, ultimately, saving lives.

A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project...

Republican New York Rep. Mike Lawler and Democratic New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer urged agencies to crack down on election misinformation posed by AI tools.

Through exclusive prison interviews with Sam Bankman-Fried and others, we put fresh eyes on the dramatic collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

The median cost of a home in the city is now $1.7m, a record high, according to the latest figures.

"They can’t believe it, that they’re approved in a period of a matter of weeks.”...

As AI disrupts traditional career paths, these college students are skipping corporate internships for San Francisco hacker houses and incubators.

Apple is charging you an AI tax.

Aron D'Souza launched Objection AI with Peter Thiel’s backing to adjudicate media claims. Then the site went dark.

The United Nations Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence releases a somewhat alarmist preliminary report.

President Trump and his family took in more than $1 billion last year through crypto businesses, a federal filing released Wednesday revealed.

Because the San Francisco-based startup could not reliably filter out foreign users in real time, it had disabled the cutting-edge software worldwide.

The release of a mandatory financial disclosure for 2025 shows that the Trump family’s holdings, particularly the president’s crypto businesses, were stunningly lucrative.

Fable and Mythos were abruptly suspended in June over concerns that they could be used by hackers.

Trump’s huge earnings have been revealed in a new federal filing.

The 937-page filing shows Trump made hundreds of millions of dollars from World Liberty Financial and so-called Celebration Coins.

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Taiwan’s main opposition party outlined plans to develop the drone industry just days after stalling a similar proposal from President Lai Ching-te’s government, amid a debate on unmanned systems with crucial implications for the island’s defense.

What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.

California governor calls for national tax on super-wealthy and suggests the US should own a stake in AI companies...

With the rapid development in AI-powered wearables, educators in East Asia are scrambling to deal with cheating students who wear smart glasses to exams. CNN’s John Liu reports.

I’d benefit if AI cured cancer. And I still want AI progress to slow down.

The 2.7-gigawatt project will have its own on-site power plant fueled by Chevron’s local natural-gas production.