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  • John Beieler, chief AI officer at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, speaks at a conference of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance on Thursday, April 4 , 2024, in Arlington, Virginia. U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, believing they’ll otherwise be smothered by exponential data growth as sensor-generated surveillance tech further blankets the planet. (AP Photo/Frank Bajak)Tech

    U.S. intelligence agencies were using generative AI 3 years before ChatGPT was released—but they still think it should be treated as a ‘crazy, drunk friend’

    By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press
  • Nand MulchandaniTech

    Ex-tech CEO who now manages AI for the CIA explains why it’s like your ‘crazy, drunk friend’

    By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, left, listens during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing titled “CHIPS and Science Implementation and Oversight”, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday, April 2, 2024, saying “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)Tech

    Microsoft committed a ‘cascade of errors’ that let state-backed Chinese hackers break into email of senior U.S. officials, federal report says

    By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press
  • Jonathan KanterTech

    Yale antitrust scholar likens Apple case to epic Microsoft battle: ‘It’s a really big deal to go up and punch someone who is acting like a bully and pretending not to be a bully’

    By Michael Liedtke, Lindsay Whitehurst, and others
  • FILE – The Microsoft logo is shown at the Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, on March 2, 2023. Microsoft said Friday, March 8, 2024 it’s still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email accounts of senior company executives in November and who it said have been trying to breach customer networks with stolen access data. . (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra, File)Tech

    Microsoft admits Russian state hack still not contained. ‘This has tremendous national security implications’

    By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press
  • Hacker’s hands using laptop computer to code program. Focus on keyboardTech

    Microsoft says Iran, North Korea, Russia and China are beginning to use generative AI in offensive cyberattacks

    By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press
  • President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign eventPolitics

    Biden administration is rolling out policy to restrict visas for those who misuse commercial spyware

    By Aamer Madhani, Frank Bajak, and others
  • FILE – A sign marks the entry way into Hewlett Packard Enterprise, May 24, 2016, in Andover, Mass. Hewlett Packard Enterprise disclosed Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, that suspected state-backed Russian hackers broke into its cloud-based email system and stole data from cybersecurity and other employees. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)Tech

    HP Enterprise admits suspected state-backed Russian hackers broke into its email system and stole data from employees

    By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press
  • a Microsoft logo is displayed on a smartphoneTech

    Russian hackers broke into Microsoft’s corporate email system and gained access to some accounts of the company’s leadership team

    By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press
  • Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. Meta Platforms Inc. introduced its latest lineup of head-worn devices, staking fresh claim to the virtual and augmented-reality industry just ahead of Apple Inc. pushing into the market. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Disinformation scholar accuses Harvard of muzzling her work related to Facebook after Mark Zuckerberg donated $500 million to the university

    By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The exterior of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building is pictured on May 4, 2021, in Washington. U.S. regulators on Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, sued SolarWinds, a Texas-based technology company whose software was breached in a massive 2020 Russian cyberespionage campaign, for fraud for failing to disclose security deficiencies ahead of the stunning hack. Detected in December 2020, the SolarWinds hack penetrated U.S. government agencies, including the Justice and Homeland Security departments, and more than 100 private companies and think tanks. It was a rude wake-up call on the perils of neglecting cybersecurity. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)Tech

    U.S. sues SolarWinds for fraud over alleged cyber security neglect ahead of stunning Russian hack into Justice and Homeland Security departments

    By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press
  • Spring Hill General Motors workers picket outside of the plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., after United Auto Workers Local 1853 announced a strike after 44 days of negotiations with GM, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. (Nicole Hester/The Tennessean via AP)Finance

    UAW increases pressure on lone holdout GM after reaching tentative pacts with Ford and Stellantis: ‘Everybody’s really fired up’

    By Tom Krisher, Frank Bajak, and others
  • FILE – The Google logo is displayed at their offices, Nov. 1, 2018, in London. In a letter, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, children’s advocacy groups including Fairplay and Common Sense Media asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google, saying the tech giant serves personalized ads to kids on YouTube despite federal law prohibiting the practice. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)Tech

    Google reaches settlement with all 50 states over alleged Play store app monopoly

    By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press
  • A couple looks at themselves in a car's rearview mirrorFinance

    ‘Wiretaps on wheels’: Cars are probably selling your personal information, and half would freely hand it over to the government, report finds

    By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press
  • Hyrum Anderson, a security engineer at the AI model safety firm Robust Intelligence, gestures in this frame grab from an interview conducted on Zoom on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Anderson is co-author of a new book that calls the state of AI security “pitiable.” (AP Photo/stf)Tech

    Hackers red-teaming A.I. are ‘breaking stuff left and right,’ but don’t expect quick fixes from DefCon: ‘There are no good guardrails’

    By Frank Bajak and The Associated Press