Barbara Ortutay

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  • Mark ZuckerbergTech

    Mark Zuckerberg says Meta’s AI tool is on pace to be the ‘most used’ in the world

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Elon MuskTech

    Elon Musk is backing Trump, but Democrats won’t quit X

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Larissa May, of HalfTheStory, is photographed in New York’s Madison Square Park, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. The site works with young people to build better relationships with technology, on their own terms, starting in middle school even before some kids have a device. To May, abstinence is not the answer to teens’ problems with social media. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Tech

    How should kids use TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat? Between an outright ban or allowing free rein, parents are choosing slow, deliberate onboarding

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A child holds an iPhone at an Apple store on Sept. 25, 2015 in Chicago. Parents — and even some teens themselves — are growing increasingly concerned about the effects of social media use on young people. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)Tech

    Congress has held a slew of hearings on child online safety but passed no regulation. What are parents—and teens—supposed to do in the meantime?

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Hock TanFinance

    Pay for executives skyrocketed 12.6% last year, dwarfing the 4.1% raises for rank-and-file employees

    By Mae Anderson, Paul Harloff, and others
  • FILE – Broadcom CEO Hock Tan speaks as President Donald Trump listens during an event on Nov. 2, 2017 in Washington. Tan topped the AP survey of CEO pay with a package valued at about $162 million in 2023. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)Leadership

    Typical S&P 500 CEO pay jumped nearly 13% to $16.3m last year—easily surpassing the gains for workers as inflation squeezes them

    By Mae Anderson, Paul Harloff, and others
  • FILE – The Meta logo is seen at the Vivatech show in Paris, France, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. The European Union opened fresh investigations Thursday, May 16, 2024 into Facebook and Instagram over suspicions that they’re failing to protect children online, in violation of the bloc’s strict digital regulations for social media platforms. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)Tech

    Meta AI can answer search queries and recommend a cocktail bar—but you can’t really turn it off even if you want to

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Arati PrabhakarTech

    The White House is pleading with Big Tech to shut off the firehose of sexually abusive AI deepfakes—’if you’re a teenage girl, if you’re a gay kid, these are problems that people are experiencing right now’

    By The Associated Press, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • Diversity in work team using internet on phones and digital tablet for teamwork growth in the office. Professional staff work with 5g technology to match work schedule online the company websiteTech

    Professor who invented tool to mass unfollow people on Meta is preemptively suing because he’s afraid of the platform banning him

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Computer monitors and a laptop display the X, formerly known as Twitter, sign-in page, July 24, 2023, in Belgrade, Serbia. Attorneys for X Corp. and a research organization that studies online hate speech traded arguments in court Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, after the social media platform sued the non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate for documenting the recent increase in hate speech on the site since it was purchased by Elon Musk. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)Tech

    Elon Musk’s X wants judge to penalize non-profit for documenting hate speech on the platform, costing it millions when advertisers fled

    By David Klepper, Barbara Ortutay, and others
  • Dating-app companies named in proposed lawsuitLifestyle

    Dateless? Lawsuit claims Tinder, Hinge, Match apps are addicting users instead of helping them find relationships

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Mark ZuckerbergPolitics

    Whistleblower says Zuckerberg grilling was just Capitol Hill talk: ‘They know how much harm teens are experiencing, yet they won’t commit to reducing it’

    By Barbara Ortutay, Haleluya Hadero, and others
  • People hold photos of their loved ones as they sit in the audience before the start of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with the heads of social media platforms on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to discuss child safety. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Family

    Meta, TikTok, other social media CEOs testify before Senate committee on child exploitation: ‘Constant pursuit of engagement and profit over basic safety’

    By Barbara Ortutay, Haleluya Hadero, and others
  • FILE – Meta’s logo is seen on a sign at the company’s headquarters, Nov. 9, 2022, in Menlo Park, Calif. Newly unredacted documents from New Mexico’s lawsuit against Meta released Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, underscore the Facebook and Instagram parent’s “historical reluctance” to keep children safe on its platforms, according to the complaint. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)Tech

    Meta’s ‘historical reluctance’ to protect children on Instagram laid bare by freshly unredacted court documents

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Mark ZuckerbergTech

    Amid onslaught of lawsuits, Instagram and Facebook will start hiding posts about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders from teenagers’ accounts

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press