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27 September 2023, USA, Menlo Park: The founder and head of Facebook’s Meta Group, Mark Zuckerberg, presents new devices and AI offerings at the Meta Connect developer conference. Among other things, the Quest 3 glasses were announced, which are designed to integrate digital content into real environments. Photo: Andrej Sokolow/dpa (Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Social media made $11 billion in U.S. ad sales from minors and therefore has ‘overwhelming financial incentives’ to avoid protecting children, study finds

By Barbara Ortutay, Haleluya Hadero, and others

File – Packages are stacked on the doorstep of a home on Oct. 27, 2021, in Upper Darby, Pa. Retailers and delivery companies have been trying to combat the theft of delivered packages in a variety of ways. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Over 1 in 4 U.S. consumers have been the victim of package theft, a recent survey found. Here’s what you need to know about ‘porch piracy’

By Haleluya Hadero and The Associated Press

AI image generators

Top AI image generators are getting trained on thousands of illegal pictures of child sex abuse, Stanford Internet Observatory says

By Matt O'Brien, Haleluya Hadero, and others

An Amazon Prime delivery person lifts packages while making a stop at an apartment building on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, in Denver. Walmart, Target and Amazon are all-in on the shipping wars, a move retail experts say will help them maintain a competitive edge against low-cost Chinese retailers Shein and Temu. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Amazon, Walmart and Target are speeding up deliveries as they fight challengers Shein and Temu

By Haleluya Hadero, Anne D'Innocenzio, and others

San Bernardino, CA – July 13: EXPLICIT IMAGE- A striking Amazon worker gestures towards an Amazon truck as it attempts to leave the Amazon ONT 5 warehouse facility adjacent to San Bernardino International Airport in San Bernardino on Thursday, July 13, 2023. Approximately 60 protesters are demanding the e-commerce giant stop what they call are unfair labor practices. (Photo by Will Lester/MediaNews Group/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin via Getty Images)

Leaked Amazon memo reveals plans to fight ‘labor agitation’ and ‘cultivate’ politicians in a California region that’s trying to cap warehouse growth

By Haleluya Hadero and The Associated Press

Dorota Mani sits for an interview in her office in Jersey City, N.J. on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. Mani is the parent of a 14-year-old New Jersey high school student victimized by an AI-generated deepfake image. (AP Photo/Peter K. Afriyie)

AI-generated nude images of teen girls spur families to push for protections: ‘We’re fighting for our children’

By Haleluya Hadero and The Associated Press

Cyber Monday

Cyber Monday is tracking for over $12 billion in sales, the biggest online shopping day of all time

By Haleluya Hadero and The Associated Press

TikToker Allie Pribula poses for a photograph in Mechanicsburg, Pa., Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. More than a decade after debuting on the once-nascent YouTube creator community, “Get Ready with Me” videos have inundated social media. Pribula, a 25-year-old TikToker who used to be an elementary school teacher in the Philadelphia suburbs, says she started making GRWM videos as a way to process her feelings about her old job. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

‘Get Ready with Me’ videos take over TikTok with over 150 billion views as users prepare for everything from going on dates to getting fired

By Haleluya Hadero and The Associated Press

An employee prepares a package for shipment at the Amazon logistics centre in Suelzetal, eastern Germany, on Mai 12, 2021. – The US online sales giant opened the new warehouse in Saxony-Anhalt in August 2020. (Photo by Ronny Hartmann / AFP) (Photo by RONNY HARTMANN/AFP via Getty Images)

Amazon collected $1 billion in extra profits using algorithm that jacked up prices on customers, FTC alleges in antitrust case

By Haleluya Hadero and The Associated Press

FILE – vJeep maker Stellantis has reached a tentative contract agreement with the United Auto Workers union that follows a template set earlier this week by Ford, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

UAW, Stellantis reach tentative contract deal that follows model set by Ford

By Tom Krisher, Haleluya Hadero, and others

15 April 2021, Hessen, Gießen: Sarah Schneider, chief detective at the police headquarters in Central Hesse, sits in front of an evaluation computer in an office of the “BAO Fokus”. The special organization within the police has been fighting child pornography and sexual abuse since October 2020. It is often terrible images that the investigators have to look at. But their work is important. From the successes, the police officers draw motivation to sit for hours in front of the computer and sift through child pornography photos and videos. (to dpa: “How do police officers cope with child pornography investigations?”) Photo: Arne Dedert/dpa (Photo by Arne Dedert/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Child sex abuse images generated by AI risk flooding the internet if no new controls are put in place, watchdog warns

By Matt O'Brien, Haleluya Hadero, and others

Workers and CEOs struggle to discuss Israel-Hamas war: ‘What good am I in my job if I compromise my own morals and ethics?’

By Alexandra Olson, Anne D'Innocenzio, and others

Albert Bourla

The workplace is divided by responses to the Israel-Hamas war: ‘What good am I in my job if I compromise my own morals and ethics?’

By Alexandra Olson, Anne D'Innocenzio, and others

Arm wrestling match between a body builder and much weaker man

TikTok influencers are promoting steroids to young men anxious to ‘be like Captain America,’ warns nonprofit

By Haleluya Hadero and The Associated Press

Andy Jassy

Amazon just got hit with a massive antitrust lawsuit from the FTC and 17 states accusing it of quashing competition and burying sellers in fees

By Paolo Confino, Haleluya Hadero, and others