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 […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� On the rooftop patio of the General Services Administration headquarters, an agency staffer recently discovered something strange: a rectangular device attached to a wire that snaked across the roof, over the ledge and into the administrator鈥檚 window one floor below. It didn鈥檛 take long for the employee 鈥� an IT specialist 鈥� […]
BANGKOK (AP) 鈥� Shares in computer chip makers slumped in after-hours trading and in Asia after Nvidia said tighter U.S. government controls on exports of computer chips used for artificial intelligence will cost it an extra $5.5 billion. The company, which announced Monday that it will produce its artificial intelligence super computers in the United […]
Navigating bedtime with a teenager is, in many homes, a nightly battle with a constant refrain: Get off your phone! Go to bed! Research shows that today鈥檚 teenagers are more sleep-deprived than ever before. Adolescents need between eight and 10 hours of sleep, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But nearly 80% […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered separating Instagram from its parent company due to worries about antitrust litigation, according to an email shown Tuesday on the second say of an antitrust trial alleging Meta illegally monopolized the social media market. In the 2018 email, Zuckerberg wrote that he was beginning to wonder […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� At first, the bar association for immigration attorneys began receiving inquiries from a couple students a day. These were foreigners studying in the U.S., and they’d discovered in early April their legal status had been terminated with little notice. To their knowledge, none of the students had committed a deportable offense. In […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) 鈥� China said Tuesday it was pursuing three alleged U.S. operatives accused of carrying out cyberattacks on Chinese infrastructure during the Asian Games held in the city of Harbin in February. A notice from the Harbin police headquarters named them as Katheryn A. Wilson, Robert J. Snelling, and Stephen W. Johnson and […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� Nvidia announced Monday that it will produce its artificial intelligence super computers in the United States for the first time. The tech giant said it has commissioned more than one million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test its specialized Blackwell chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas […]
Meta Platforms Inc. faces a historic antitrust trial beginning Monday that could force the tech giant to break off Instagram and WhatsApp, startups it bought more than a decade ago that have since grown into social media powerhouses. The looming antitrust trial will be the first big test of President Donald Trump鈥檚 Federal Trade Commission鈥檚 […]
When the first two rounds of 10% tariffs hit, Zou Guoqing, a Chinese exporter, groaned but didn’t find the barriers insurmountable. He gave up some of his profits and offered his client, a snow-bike factory in Nebraska, price cuts ranging from 5% to 10%. It seemed to work: The factory agreed to a new order […]
The Trump administration says electronics like smartphones and laptops will be excluded from 鈥榬eciprocal鈥� tariffs, a move that could help keep prices down for popular consumer electronics that aren鈥檛 usually made in the U.S. The announcement on Friday would also benefit big tech companies like Apple and Samsung. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection said […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump’s administration has been predicting its barrage of tariffs targeting China will push Apple into manufacturing the iPhone in the United States for the first time. But that’s an unlikely scenario even with U.S tariffs now standing at 145% on products made in China 鈥� the country where Apple […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� When Donald Trump offered some financial advice Wednesday morning, stocks were wavering between gains and losses. But that was about to change. 鈥淭HIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT,鈥� he wrote on his social media platform Truth Social at 9:37 a.m. Less than four hours later, Trump announced a 90-day […]
Former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, accusing the social media company of undermining national security and briefing China on U.S. artificial intelligence efforts in order to grow its business there. 鈥淲e are engaged in a high-stakes AI arms race against China. And during my time at Meta, company executives […]
AP Technology Writer (AP) 鈥� Microsoft said it is 鈥渟lowing or pausing鈥� some of its data center construction, including a $1 billion project in Ohio, the latest sign that the demand for artificial intelligence technology that drove a massive infrastructure expansion might not need quite as many powerful computers as expected. The tech giant confirmed […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Thanks to a mouse watching clips from 鈥淭he Matrix,鈥� scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date 鈥� a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off messages. Using a piece of that mouse鈥檚 brain about the size of a poppy seed, the researchers identified […]
A judge has dismissed conspiracy and kidnapping charges against five Massachusetts college students who were accused of plotting to lure a man to their campus through a dating app and then seizing him as part of a 鈥淐atch a Predator鈥� trend on social media. The Assumption University students, all teenagers, were arraigned in January and […]
Four years ago, a sixth grader in Rigby, Idaho, shot and injured two peers and a custodian at a middle school. The tragedy prompted school officials to reimagine what threat prevention looks like in the district. Now, student-run Hope Squads uplift peers with homemade cards and assemblies. Volunteer fathers patrol hallways through Dads on Duty. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The Internal Revenue Service has agreed to share immigrants’ tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S., according to a document signed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The new data-sharing arrangement was signed […]
Microsoft has fired two employees who interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebration to protest its work supplying artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military, according to a group representing the workers. Microsoft didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Monday. The protests began Friday when Microsoft software engineer Ibtihal Aboussad walked up to a […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� A bogus rumor that President Donald Trump was considering a pause in tariffs briefly lifted markets Monday before the White House shot down the unfounded reports. The confusion 鈥� which was amplified on social media and by some traditional media outlets 鈥� lasted less than a half hour but reflected a […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� EDITED THURSDAY BY TJACOBS. It took only seconds for the judges on a New York appeals court to realize that the man addressing them from a video screen 鈥� a person about to present an argument in a lawsuit 鈥� not only had no law degree, but didn’t exist at all. […]
Fifty years after the founding of Microsoft, the CEO of its artificial intelligence division has a big task: develop a new product line as integral to daily life as the software giant’s past innovations. 鈥淲e鈥檙e really trying to land this idea that everybody is going to have their own personalized AI companion,” said Mustafa Suleyman […]
