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A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a Texas law that would have required age verification and parental consent for minors downloading mobile apps, ruling the measure likely violates free speech protections.... Read more

As generative AI systems become more deeply woven into the fabric of modern life—drafting text, generating images, summarizing news—debates over who should profit from the technology are intensifying.... Read more

Google's corporate parent on Monday announced an agreement to buy data center energy specialist Intersect for $4.75 billion as part of its effort to secure the vast amounts of electricity needed to power artificial intelligence technology.... Read more

Italy's competition authority said Monday it had fined the US tech giant Apple 98 million euros ($115 million) for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the mobile app market.... Read more

Even as the United States is embarked on a bitter rivalry with China over the deployment of artificial intelligence, Chinese technology is quietly making inroads into the US market.... Read more

A Spanish consumer rights association on Friday said it had launched preliminary legal action against Google for allegedly collecting sensitive personal data and violating their right to privacy.... Read more

For a reading of Wall Street's shifting mood on the artificial intelligence investment boom, take a look at the daily fluctuations of Oracle stock, analysts say.... Read more

TikTok said Thursday it has signed a joint venture deal with investors that would allow the company to maintain operations in the United States and avoid a ban over its Chinese ownership.... Read more

Austria's Supreme Court on Thursday ordered Meta to provide an online privacy rights campaigner with access to all of his personal data within two weeks, after a marathon 11-year legal battle.... Read more

Robots from around the world converged on Silicon Valley to provide a glimpse of a potential future.... Read more

Apple's data protection measure "App Tracking Transparency" (ATT) strengthens user privacy, but causes significant revenue losses in e-commerce, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The reason for this is the mandatory opt-in for users introduced by ATT. This is shown by a study co-authored by Maximilian Kaiser from the... Read more

A University of Cambridge philosopher argues that our evidence for what constitutes consciousness is far too limited to tell if or when artificial intelligence has made the leap—and a valid test for doing so will remain out of reach for the foreseeable future.... Read more

Netflix is set to release a FIFA soccer simulation game exclusively on its gaming platform in summer 2026, timed to coincide with the World Cup, the streaming giant said Wednesday.... Read more

In a seismic shift for one of television's marquee events, the Academy Awards will depart ABC and begin streaming on YouTube beginning in 2029, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday.... Read more

Warner Bros. is telling shareholders of the company that it believes a $72 billion buyout offer from Netflix is superior, and to reject a hostile takeover bid from Paramount Skydance.... Read more

Shares in China's MetaX, which makes high-end chips used to power AI systems, rocketed more than 750% on its debut in Shanghai on Wednesday, fueled by hopes of the country's potential to challenge US powerhouse Nvidia.... Read more

Tech giants Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Oracle have been taking on enormous new debt in a race to build out their artificial intelligence ventures in the last year, fueling Wall Street fears of a bubble capable of disrupting the entire economy.... Read more

Amazon.com Inc.'s business ties with Israel's military and the US Department of Homeland Security are the focus of a shareholder proposal demanding that the company investigate whether such contracts comply with its responsible AI policies.... Read more

A new analysis finds that AI companies now average just 40 out of 100 on transparency, marking a significant decline from last year.... Read more

Earlier this month, Australia's long-anticipated National AI Plan was released to a mixed reception.... Read more

United Parcel Service Inc. will invest $120 million in 400 robots used to unload trucks, according to people familiar with the matter, revealing new details on the logistics giant's $9 billion automation plan that aims to boost profits by decreasing labor costs.... Read more

Three years after ChatGPT made OpenAI the leader in artificial intelligence and a household name, rivals have closed the gap and some investors are wondering if the sensation has the wherewithal to stay dominant.... Read more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Dec. 11, 2025, that aims to supersede state-level artificial intelligence laws that the administration views as a hindrance to innovation in AI.... Read more

This week, US President Donald Trump approved previously banned exports of Nvidia's powerful H200 artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China.... Read more

The grocery delivery service Instacart is using artificial intelligence to experiment with prices and charge some shoppers more than others for the same items, a new study found.... Read more

Governments and companies constantly face decisions about how to allocate finite amounts of money to clean energy technologies that can make a difference to the world's climate, its economies, and to society as a whole. The process is inherently uncertain, but research has been shown to help predict which technologies... Read more

Cryptocurrency firm Tether said Friday it had submitted a bid to Juventus's main shareholder, Exor, to acquire its entire stake in the Turin football club—but was quickly rebuffed.... Read more

The evolving global order, intense geopolitical competition, and anxiety over supply chain vulnerabilities in this century have led to urgent concerns over supply chain resilience as well as national security. Amidst these upheavals, governments across the globe are making substantial efforts to reaffirm control over strategic sectors, especially in the... Read more

The recent news that Netflix has agreed to buy part of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) for US$83 billion (£61.8 billion), followed by Paramount Global's hostile counterbid to acquire WBD in its entirety for US$108.4 billion, has triggered shockwaves through Hollywood and the wider entertainment industry.... Read more

In some cases, and for limited periods, energy suppliers can generate more energy than is needed, which can lead to so-called negative prices. This is typically observed in wind and solar energy, for instance, during particularly windy days or at hours when the sun shines stronger.... Read more

A US court sentenced cryptocurrency tycoon Do Kwon to 15 years in prison Thursday over fraud linked to his company's failure, which wiped out $40 billion of investors' money and shook global crypto markets.... Read more

Online discussion site Reddit launched a legal challenge Friday to Australia's social media ban for under-16s, just days after the landmark law came into effect.... Read more

Accompanying Time's annual person of the year selection Thursday is a magazine cover that resembles the "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" photograph from the 1930s showing eight of the " Architects of AI " sitting on the beam.... Read more

Walt Disney and OpenAI announced a three-year licensing deal Thursday that will allow users to create short videos featuring beloved Disney characters through artificial intelligence.... Read more

Driverless taxis are a bit like buses. You wait ages for one, and then a fleet arrives all at once. The US firms Waymo and Uber have both said their vehicles will be on the streets of London in 2026.... Read more

Bay Area laboratories are set to play a central role in the Genesis Mission, a multibillion-dollar effort by the Trump administration to accelerate the nation's artificial intelligence push in the face of technological advances in China.... Read more

OpenAI said Tuesday it has picked Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its first chief of revenue, a message to wary investors that the ChatGPT maker is serious about making a profit from its artificial intelligence technology.... Read more

Tech giants will apply multiple layers of security to weed out young users under Australia's world-first ban on social media for under-16s.... Read more

International airlines expect to transport a record 5.2 billion passengers in 2026 despite global headwinds affecting the sector, the industry's trade association said on Tuesday.... Read more

The EU announced Tuesday it had opened a probe to assess whether Google breached antitrust rules by using content put online by media and other publishers to train and provide AI services without appropriate compensation.... Read more

Paramount on Monday launched a hostile takeover offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, initiating a potentially bruising battle with rival bidder Netflix to buy the company behind HBO, CNN and a famed movie studio along with the power to reshape much of the nation's entertainment landscape.... Read more

As OpenAI marks its tenth birthday in December 2025, it can celebrate becoming one of the world's leading companies, worth perhaps as much as US$1 trillion (£750 billion). But it started as a non-profit with a serious moral mission—and its story demonstrates the difficulty of combining morality with capitalism.... Read more

A man mourns the loss of his dead celebrity mom, who unexpectedly appears before him as a hologram in his childhood home, singing and strumming a guitar.... Read more

Netflix struck a deal Friday to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, the Hollywood giant behind "Harry Potter" and HBO Max, in a $72 billion deal that would bring together two of the biggest players in television and film and potentially reshape the entertainment industry.... Read more

Meta announced Friday it will integrate content from major news organizations into its artificial intelligence assistant to provide Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users with real-time information.... Read more

On Dec. 4, the Chicago Tribune filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in New York federal court against Perplexity AI, alleging the California-based startup has been unlawfully profiting off the newspaper's content in building its AI-driven search engine.... Read more

The EU said Thursday it had opened an antitrust probe to determine if the way Meta is rolling out AI features in WhatsApp breaches the bloc's competition rules.... Read more

In the nine years since TikTok debuted, it's helped transform the way people view and absorb information, along with other short-form video platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat. Every month, TikTok alone has nearly 1.6 billion active users globally.... Read more

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and cloud services has led to a massive demand for computing power. The surge has strained data infrastructure, which requires lots of electricity to operate. A single, medium-sized data center here on Earth can consume enough electricity to power about 16,500 homes, with even... Read more

OpenAI will award $40.5 million to more than 200 nonprofits before the end of the year, following an open call for applications in September.... Read more