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The Center for the Future of the Legal Profession (CFLP) at UNSW Law & Justice has released a new report on the impacts of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in law: "GenAI, Fake Law & Fallout: A review of the misuse of generative artificial intelligence in legal proceedings."... Read more

Big tech platforms, including TikTok and Netflix, are all looking to add video podcasts to their content, a rapidly growing format that attracts a young audience prized by advertisers and where YouTube dominates.... Read more

Google on Friday announced changes to its advertising services to avert the risk of a breakup, two months after Brussels hit the US giant with a massive fine.... Read more

Google will pay more than $40 million to support South African news media, many of them floundering in a digital age, the country's competition authority said Thursday.... Read more

The EU launched a fresh investigation into Google Thursday over suspicions the US giant is pushing down news outlets in search results, despite retaliation threats from US President Donald Trump.... Read more

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced a $50 billion investment in computing infrastructure on Wednesday that will include new data centers in Texas and New York.... Read more

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have been tested as taxis for decades in San Francisco, Pittsburgh and around the world, and trucking companies have enormous incentives to adopt them.... Read more

If last week's trillion-dollar slide of major tech stocks felt familiar, it's because we've been here before—when hype about innovation last ran headlong into economic reality.... Read more

A German court ruled Tuesday that OpenAI has infringed copyright law by using song lyrics to feed its chat models in a case that could have wide implications for European artists.... Read more

The robots were taking our jobs—or so we were told over a decade ago. The same warnings are regularly heard today about the likely impact of artificial intelligence (AI).... Read more

OpenAI's recent restructuring of its for-profit arm to a public benefit corporation is a smart move that will allow the organization to increase its investment opportunities and maintain its nonprofit roots, according to a Northeastern University nonprofit management expert.... Read more

Microsoft Corp. is pursuing a more powerful form of AI called "superintelligence" it hopes will be capable of making advances in areas like medicine and materials science.... Read more

Denmark's government on Friday announced an agreement to ban access to social media for anyone under 15, ratcheting up pressure on Big Tech platforms as concerns grow that kids are getting too swept up in a digitized world of harmful content and commercial interests.... Read more

The European Union said Friday it is considering adjustments to its landmark artificial intelligence law, the AI Act, after tech firms and several member states raised concerns.... Read more

Last week, artificial intelligence (AI) music company Udio announced an out-of-court settlement with Universal Music Group (UMG) over a lawsuit that accused Udio (as well as another AI music company called Suno) of copyright infringement.... Read more

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a nonprofit launched by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife aimed at curing all disease, on Thursday announced it was restructuring to focus on using artificial intelligence to achieve that goal.... Read more

Flashy AI, robotics and self-driving cars will be on show at the annual Web Summit in Lisbon from Monday, but global tensions over high-tech trade, competition and sovereignty will be weighing on the minds of entrepreneurs, investors and policymakers.... Read more

Tesla shareholders on Thursday overwhelmingly endorsed a massive pay package for CEO Elon Musk that could reach $1 trillion.... Read more

Ireland's central bank imposed a fine of 21.5 million euros ($24.7 million) Thursday on crypto giant Coinbase over transaction monitoring failures, including some potentially linked to criminal activities.... Read more

American households have become dependent on Amazon.... Read more

For almost as long as the artificial intelligence boom has been in full swing, there have been warnings of a speculative bubble that could rival the dot-com craze of the late 1990s that ended in a spectacular crash and a wave of bankruptcies.... Read more

Tesla shareholders will determine on Thursday the fate of a massive pay package meant to retain Elon Musk long enough to achieve technological breakthroughs he vows will change the world.... Read more

The Motion Picture Association is asking Meta to stop referring to content shown to teen accounts on Instagram as "guided by PG-13 ratings," saying it is misleading and could erode trust in its movie ratings system.... Read more

In little more than five months, Amazon and Microsoft have announced they're collectively cutting more than 29,000 roles.... Read more

The term "black swan" refers to a shocking event on nobody's radar until it actually happens. This has become a byword in risk analysis since a book called "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb was published in 2007. A frequently cited example is the 9/11 attacks.... Read more

At a Cargill slaughterhouse in Texas, AI-equipped cameras scan every cattle carcass and let workers know when they're literally leaving too much meat on the bone.... Read more

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has signed a multibillion-dollar deal with Google to acquire more of the computing power needed for the startup's chatbot, Claude.... Read more

Apple lost a UK lawsuit Thursday which accuses the US tech giant of abusing the dominant position of its App Store, with claimants seeking more than £1.5 billion ($2 billion) in damages.... Read more

Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time.... Read more

A new research study released today finds that more than 9% of all news in U.S. newspapers contains at least some AI-created text.... Read more

Bio-inspired computational methods have gained popularity recently. These methods mimic the seemingly complex behavior of organisms to tackle difficult and often overwhelming problems. For example, algorithms have been inspired by honeybees' flight patterns when searching for nectar, ants' social foraging strategies, the evasive murmurations of birds and fish, and even... Read more

Tech firms battling for supremacy in artificial intelligence are out to transform how people search the web, challenging the dominance of the Chrome browser at the heart of Google's empire.... Read more

Amazon on Wednesday said it is speeding up the automation of its warehouses with the help of artificial intelligence and robotics, raising questions about the future of human workers.... Read more

India has proposed sweeping new regulations to govern artificial intelligence, aiming to curb a surge in misinformation and deepfake videos in the world's most populous nation.... Read more

Renewable energy is today the cheapest source of electricity available. In order to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, the share of renewables must be expanded to 100% by 2030. However, this expansion comes with an increase in land use, leading to rising public opposition.... Read more

Hydrogen production from water may seem straightforward: splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen gases using an electric current. However, one major challenge is the significant cost associated with it.... Read more

From bananas to burgers, store aisles to sidewalks, an army of robots has descended upon Chicagoland with the singular mission to bring us food.... Read more

Electric cars made by the Chinese car firm BYD are now a familiar sight on British roads. In September 2025, the company sold 11,271 vehicles in the UK—ten times as many as in the same month last year.... Read more

I have worked in AI for more than three decades, including with pioneers such as John McCarthy, who coined the term "artificial intelligence" in 1955.... Read more

Britain's antitrust watchdog on Wednesday targeted Google and Apple for their "strategic" roles in mobile ecosystems, opening the door for regulators to impose changes to their business practices to improve competition.... Read more

Electronic Arts (EA) is one of the world's largest gaming companies. It has agreed to be acquired for US$55 billion in the second largest buyout in the industry's history.... Read more

In recent years, several websites selling ultra-low-cost goods have appeared on the French market. Shein, Temu and AliExpress, to name but a few, are shaking up the online retail landscape. According to a study conducted by BPCE Digital & Payments, the number of payment cards recording at least one monthly... Read more

The world's largest cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has experienced a major outage that has impacted thousands of organizations, including banks, financial software platforms such as Xero, and social media platforms such as Snapchat.... Read more

OpenAI introduced its own web browser, Atlas, on Tuesday, putting the ChatGPT maker in direct competition with Google as more internet users rely on artificial intelligence to answer their questions.... Read more

From Reddit and Snapchat to Delta and Zoom, more than a thousand websites around the globe were knocked offline early Monday—and continued to have problems into the afternoon—after a major outage at Amazon Web Services, the single largest cloud service provider in the world.... Read more

The European Union's data privacy regulations have reduced artificial intelligence innovation, according to Northeastern University research. The extent of this dampening, however, depends on individual countries' culture, the researcher says.... Read more

A major Amazon Web Services outage disrupted scores of online platforms on Monday—leaving people around the world unable to access some banks, chatting apps, online food ordering and more.... Read more

Amazon says a massive outage of its cloud computing service has been resolved as of Monday evening, after a problem disrupted internet use around the world, taking down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms.... Read more

Jan Rosenow, Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute, has addressed energy ministers from all 27 member states at the European Union's Energy Council, offering a decisive, research-backed roadmap to restore Europe's industrial competitiveness, strengthen energy security, and accelerate decarbonization.... Read more