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The response comes after X's Grok chatbot began spewing antisemitic and pro-Hitler comments earlier this week.

The advocacy group Free Press on Friday blasted America's Federal Communications Commission chief "for an order that rips net neutrality rules off the books, without any time for public comment, following an unfavorable court ruling," reports the nonprofit progressive news site Common Dreams: A pan...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: JPMorgan Chase has told financial-technology companies that it will start charging fees amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars for access to their customers' bank account information -- a move that threatens to upend the industry's business m...

After praising Hitler earlier this week, the chatbot is now listing the “good races.”

People don’t upgrade phones every year anymore—longevity matters.

Among a diversity of rumors around the Dynamic Island on the iPhone 17 line, a leaker has just teased big changes ahead for the feature.

The US ITC has released an initial determination that says Insta360's cameras infringe on some of GoPro's patents.

Meta Platforms has hired two more artificial intelligence researchers from OpenAI as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues his aggressive push to recruit AI talent, after stumbles earlier this year. Allan Jabri and Lu Liu, who worked on multimodal AI at OpenAI, are joining Meta’s new AI organization, Meta Superintelligence Labs, according to a person with direct knowledge of the hires. In recent

With ESPN unwilling to match Tim Cook and Eddy Cue’s offer, the U.S. rights to Formula One are almost certainly headed to Apple’s streamer, trading cable TV’s reach for Big Tech revenue. Here’s hoping Cupertino will be a better, more creative, partner to F1 than it was to MLS.

We got big news this afternoon in the AI world, as we learned that OpenAI’s talks to buy Windsurf, maker of the popular Codeium AI coding assistant, have ended—and Google has hired Windsurf’s CEO and some staff. For more on this drama, see our story here.Lots of questions remain unanswered, ...

Key researchers are joining Google DeepMind, too.

GameStop is auctioning the stapler that punctured a Nintendo Switch 2. CEO Ryan Cohen is joining the fray by throwing his underwear into the bid.

Apple researchers developed an AI model trained on behavioral data collected from wearables, and it performed surprisingly well.

OpenAI will reportedly release its own web browser, putting it in position to challenge Google’s long dominance in web search.

Study Shows That Even Experienced Developers Dramatically Overestimate Gains

Elon Musk's newly launched AI chatbot, Grok 4, seemed to reference Musk's posts on social media before answering controversial questions.

James Carter Cathcart, the voice of Professor Oak and many other animated characters, has died of throat cancer at 71.

Belkin has announced that it will shut down all services for its Wemo smart home products in early 2026, and there's a full list.

Studios including EA, Activision, and Disney have agreed to new AI consent rules for performers in games

Apple Inc. is planning an ambitious pipeline of new products for release during the first half of 2026, including a new low-end iPhone, multiple iPads and upgraded Macs.

The lawsuit accused Apple, Visa, and Mastercard of colluding to keep payment processing fees artificially high for merchants.

In looking over the shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 competition, I thought about how I’ve seen tho

Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.

Makers of the most advanced artificial intelligence systems will face new obligations for transparency, copyright protection and public safety. The rules are voluntary to start.

Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus will train on Hearst and Condé Nast publications as part of a multi-year agreement.

X is now a strip mine for Grok's training data.

Google is making it easier to create videos with Gemini, but you only get a few shots per day.

Linda Yaccarino is stepping down.