WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The CIA has a message for Chinese government officials worried about their place in President Xi Jinping’s government: Come work with us. America’s premier spy agency released two Mandarin-language videos on social media Thursday inviting disgruntled officials to contact the CIA. The recruitment videos posted to YouTube and X racked up more […]
ATLANTA (AP) 鈥� Georgia on Thursday became the eighth state to see its law requiring parental consent for children to use social media challenged in court. NetChoice, a technology industry trade group, sued in federal court in Atlanta to overturn the law, which is scheduled to take effect on July 1. Similar laws have been […]
BOSTON (AP) 鈥� Tariffs weren’t on the agenda of this week’s Robotics Summit, where thousands of tech industry workers mingled with humanoid and other robot varieties and talked about how to build and sell a new generation of increasingly autonomous machines. Not on the official agenda, at least. 鈥淛ump up to the microphones,鈥� said keynote […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� Conservative activist Robby Starbuck has filed a defamation lawsuit against Meta alleging that the social media giant’s artificial intelligence chatbot spread false statements about him, including that he participated in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Starbuck, known for targeting corporate DEI programs, said he discovered the […]
Artificial intelligence 鈥渁gents鈥� are supposed to be more than chatbots. The tech industry has spent months pitching AI personal assistants that know what you want and can do real work on your behalf. So far, they’re not doing much. Visa hopes to change that by giving them your credit card. Set a budget and some […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) 鈥� A group of high school students in upstate New York are being threatened with charges of kidnapping if they don’t turn themselves into authorities over a lacrosse team hazing prank in which participants are accused of staging an armed abduction of younger players. Prosecutors allege members of the lacrosse program at […]
Congress has overwhelmingly approved bipartisan legislation to enact stricter penalties for the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery, sometimes called 鈥渞evenge porn.鈥� Known as the Take It Down Act, the bill is now headed to President Donald Trump鈥檚 desk for his signature. The measure was introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, and Sen. […]
There’s a new pour from Starbucks: Its first 3D printed store in the U.S. The Seattle-based coffee giant with more than 17,000 locations nationwide has never had a store quite like the one opening this week in the Texas city of Brownsville, along the U.S.-Mexico border, where a computer-controlled robotic arm did much of the […]
BALTIMORE (AP) 鈥� A former high school athletics director accused of using artificial intelligence to create a racist and antisemitic deepfake of a Maryland principal has been sentenced to four months in jail as part of a plea deal for disrupting school operations. Dazhon Darien, 32, accepted the deal Monday in Baltimore County Circuit Court, […]
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) 鈥� The trial of a former Michigan police officer charged with second-degree murder in the killing of a 26-year-old Black man is set to begin in Grand Rapids, three years after the case sparked weeks of protest and national outrage. Patrick Lyoya, a Congolese immigrant who sought refuge with his family […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) 鈥� Authorities released more videos Friday related to their investigation of the deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, including images of agents returning to the couple’s Santa Fe home days after they were found to look for more evidence. The bodies of Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 65, were […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) 鈥� Oregon’s environmental agency won’t say if a group of hackers stole data in a cyberattack that was first announced earlier this month. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality on Friday declined to confirm or deny reports that ransomware group Rhysida was behind the cyberattack and stole department data, including sensitive employee […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Prosecutors at Sean 鈥淒iddy鈥� Combs ‘ upcoming federal sex trafficking trial can show jurors video of the hip-hop mogul hitting and kicking one of his accusers in a Los Angeles hotel hallway, a judge ruled at a hearing Friday. U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian said Combs’ lawyers failed to convince him […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� U.S. preorders for the Nintendo Switch 2 kicked off shortly after the clock struck midnight Thursday. But chaos soon ensued amid high demand. Scores of consumers hoping to be among the first to own Nintendo’s latest gaming console 鈥� which is set to officially launch June 5 鈥� jumped online to […]
Ashley Dayer’s dream of winning a National Science Foundation grant to pursue discoveries in bird conservation started when she was an early-career professor with an infant in her arms and a shoestring laboratory budget. Competition is intense for NSF grants, a key source of funding for science research at U.S. universities. It took three failed […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump has ordered sharper scrutiny of America鈥檚 colleges and the accreditors that oversee them, part of his escalating campaign to end what he calls ” wokeness 鈥� and diversity efforts in education. In a series of executive actions signed Wednesday, Trump targeted universities that he views as liberal adversaries to […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� The State Bar of California has disclosed that some multiple-choice questions in a problem-plagued bar exam were developed with the aid of artificial intelligence. The legal licensing body said in a news release Monday that it will ask the California Supreme Court to adjust test scores for those who took its […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The H-1B visa has long been a highly coveted employment visa for foreign citizens with specialized skills to live and work in the U.S., and recent requests from the Trump administration have put greater attention on the program. The requests for more information from people applying for or renewing H-1B visas come […]
Instagram is beginning to test the use of artificial intelligence to determine if kids are lying about their ages on the app, parent company Meta Platforms said on Monday. Meta has been using AI to determine people’s ages for some time, the company said, but photo and video-sharing app will now 鈥減roactively鈥� look for teen […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 鈥� As Big Tech kicks off its quarterly earnings season this week, the industry’s bellwether companies have been thrust into a cauldron of uncertainty and turmoil that they didn’t anticipate when Donald Trump re-entered the White House nearly 100 days ago. Since President Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, Big Tech stocks have been […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Hackers linked to Russia’s government launched a cyberattack last spring against municipal water plants in rural Texas. At one plant in Muleshoe, population 5,000, water began to overflow. Officials had to unplug the system and run the plant manually. The test the vulnerabilities of America’s public infrastructure. It was also a warning: […]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) 鈥� America鈥檚 only rare earths mine heard from anxious companies soon after China responded to President Donald Trump鈥檚 tariffs this month by limiting exports of those minerals used for military applications and in many high-tech devices. 鈥淏ased on the number of phone calls we鈥檙e receiving, the effects have been immediate,鈥� said Matt […]
Google has been branded an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time for illegally exploiting some of its online marketing technology to boost the profits fueling an internet empire currently worth $1.8 trillion. The ruling issued Thursday by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Virginia […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) 鈥� A federal judge permanently struck down an Ohio law on Thursday that would have required children and teens under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps. U.S. District Court Judge Algenon Marbley鈥檚 a lawsuit filed by NetChoice, a trade group representing TikTok, Snapchat, Meta and other major tech […]
