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  • Elon Musk hunches over while walkingTech

    Elon Musk says he will be irreparably harmed if OpenAI isn’t stopped. The federal judge overseeing his lawsuit called it a ‘stretch’

    By Barbara Ortutay, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)Tech

    Trump signs executive order to cull Biden AI policies and develop a version ‘free from ideological bias’

    By Matt O'Brien, Sarah Parvini, and others
  • FILE – Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, left, and Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump attend a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show on Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)Politics

    Elon Musk’s own businesses sit front and center as he says he and Trump have a ‘mandate to delete’ regulations with DOGE

    By Matt O'Brien, Tom Krisher, and others
  • Donald Trump and Kamala Harris shake handsPolitics

    VCs backing Kamala Harris are ‘trying to buy the right type of risk’

    By Sarah Parvini, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • cop gestures as he talksTech

    Cops are using AI to write reports, and it’s changing how they respond to crimes

    By Sean Murphy, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • Close-up of phone screen displaying Anthropic ClaudeTech

    Anthropic accused of seeking to profit from ‘strip-mining the human expression and ingenuity’ behind authors’ work

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Sad teen crying after read phone messageTech

    Boys are taking images of female classmates and using AI to deepfake nude photos. A landmark lawsuit could stop it.

    By Matt O'Brien, Haleluya Hadero, and others
  • WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 01: Jacob Helberg, Advisor to Palantir CEO introduces a video message from 45th U.S. President, Donald Trump at The Hill & Valley Forum on AI Security at U.S. Capitol Visitor Center on May 01, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Jacob Helberg)Politics

    Trump camp says he would repeal Biden’s ‘dangerous’ AI order that ‘hinders’ innovation

    By Matt O'Brien, Sarah Parvini, and others
  • WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 30: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris (R) looks on as President Joe Biden signs a new executive order guiding his administration’s approach to artificial intelligence during an event in the East Room of the White House on October 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. President Biden issued a new executive order on Monday, directing his administration to create a new chief AI officer, track companies developing the most powerful AI systems, adopt stronger privacy policies and “both deploy AI and guard against its possible bias,” creating new safety guidelines and industry standards. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Tech

    White House says there’s no need to restrict ‘open source’ AI—for now at least

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 11: Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) speaks with reporters in the Senate subway at the U.S. Capitol on September 11, 2023 in Washington, DC.Regulators

    Tech’s war for AI talent is creating a ‘massive consolidation’ problem, lawmakers say

    By Matt O'Brien, Sarah Parvini, and others
  • Nick Gage gestures as he is speaking.Tech

    This 84-year-old quit an elite job and went $160K into debt to launch his career. Now he’s suing ChatGPT to protect writers like him from ‘highway robbery’

    By The Associated Press and Matt O'Brien
  • Aravind Srinivas, CEO of PerplexityTech

    Jeff Bezos-backed Perplexity AI wants to upend search business—but news outlets say it’s just ripping them off and inventing quotes

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Sam Altman, wearing a suit and in front of a large blue screen, frowns and looks to the side.Tech

    The AI gold rush is hitting a ‘bottleneck’ that could spell disaster for Google and Meta

    By Matt O'Brien 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
  • Satya NadellaTech

    Microsoft’s new AI-enabled laptops will have a ‘photographic memory’ of your virtual activity

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press