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A joint law enforcement operation uses a drone swarm for inspection in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, on August 26, 2025.

The U.S. keeps warning about China’s surveillence tech threat—while cashing in on it: ‘I think we’ve been naive or complicit in the extreme’

By Garance Burke, Dake Kang, and others

An Israeli tank moves in a staging area in southern Israel, near the border with Gaza, Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Microsoft says it provided AI to Israeli military for war but denies use to harm people in Gaza

By Michael Biesecker, Garance Burke, and others

FILE – Elon Musk attends the finals for the NCAA wrestling championship, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)

Two of Elon Musk’s top DOGE hires are a married couple who worked at X and lived at Twitter’s HQ with their infant child

By Byron Tau, Joshua Goodman, and others

A Microsoft building with a large Israeli flag hanging from the exterior

Israel’s use of Microsoft and OpenAI raises questions about what could go wrong with the powerful tech

By Sam Mednick, Garance Burke, and others

FILE – Border Patrol agents talk with migrants seeking asylum as they prepare them for transportation to be processed, June 5, 2024, near Dulzura, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Biden administration surveillance and AI tools for tracking and ranking immigrants set to help Trump deportation crackdown

By Sarah Parvini, Garance Burke, and others

A grid of stickers that say "I voted today" in Spanish

Latino voters say they’re being targeted by AI-generated ads in Spanish with incorrect voting information—and Facebook’s model is one of the worst offenders

By Gisela Salomon, Garance Burke, and others

Assistant professor of information science Allison Koenecke, an author of a recent study that found hallucinations in a speech-to-text transcription tool, works in her office at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., Friday, Feb. 2, 2024.

OpenAI’s transcription tool hallucinates more than any other, experts say—but hospitals keep using it

By Garance Burke, Hilke Schellmann, and others

This combination of images assembled in June 2024 shows some of the images that appear in an online blog for Glenn Cook, a Republican running for a state legislative seat in southeastern Georgia. The campaign says artificial intelligence was used to to generate them. AI-generated podcast episodes use a cloned version of his voice to narrate his policy positions. (AP Photo)

‘Congress is pathetic’: Senator rips Washington as AI and deepfakes remake local elections while legislation goes nowhere

By Ali Swenson, Dan Merica, and others

FILE – Brad Parscale, then-campaign manager for President Donald Trump, speaks during a campaign rally at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Oct. 10, 2019. Parscale, the digital campaign operative who helped engineer Trump’s 2016 presidential victory, vows that his new, AI-powered platform will dramatically overhaul not just polling, but also campaigning. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Former Trump campaign manager who used Cambridge Analytica to target Facebook ads in 2016 run has returned with his own AI platform

By Garance Burke, Alan Suderman, and others

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‘The chatbots are not ready for primetime’: Election officials, tech experts sound the alarm on the first AI election

By Garance Burke and The Associated Press

Social worker looks at computer screen with an image of her adopted son

One of the few adoption algorithms is the brainchild of a pastor’s wife who recruited a data scientist from Christian dating site eharmony

By Sally Ho, Garance Burke, and others

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Bombshell Stanford study finds ChatGPT and Google’s Bard answer medical questions with racist, debunked theories that harm Black patients

By Garance Burke, Matt O'Brien, and others

Young boy standing back and watching a family

An AI algorithm designed for child welfare could have the potential for discrimination and now the Justice Department is looking into it

By Sally Ho, Garance Burke, and others

An algorithm that screens for child neglect raises concerns

By Garance Burke and The Associated Press

WEST SALEM, WISCONSIN – OCTOBER 27: President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at the LaCrosse Fairgrounds Speedway on October 27, 2020 in West Salem, Wisconsin. A recent polling average has Trump trailing former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden by about 7 points in the state.

Meet the financially troubled startup helped power Trump’s campaign

By Garance Burke and The Associated Press