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  • FILE – Lina Khan, then a nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaks during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing, April 21, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. The federal government will “not hesitate to crack down” on harmful business practices involving artificial intelligence, Federal Trade Commission head Khan warned Tuesday. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP, File)Tech

    FTC Chair Lina Khan says she will ‘not hesitate to crack down’ on shady AI business behavior

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The Twitter splash page is seen on a digital device, on April 25, 2022, in San Diego. After several false starts, Twitter began making good on its promise Thursday, April 20, 2023, to remove the blue checks from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee to keep them. Twitter had about 300,000 verified users under the original blue-check system — many of them journalists, athletes and public figures. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)Tech

    Twitter is a check mark mess and fake accounts are already popping up claiming to be city agencies and politicians

    By Matt O'Brien, Kathleen Foody, and others
  • San FranciscoTech

    Slain tech exec Bob Lee’s friends remember him as a night owl with ‘boundless energy’ as details remain scant on early-morning stabbing

    By Matt O'Brien, Janie Har, and others
  • INDIA – 2023/04/02: In this photo illustration, a Blue Tick logo is displayed on a smartphone with a Twitter logo in the background. (Photo Illustration by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Tech

    Elon Musk is overhauling how Twitter’s blue check marks are doled out—but his indecision has left many users confused

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • OpenAI ChatGPT website displayed on a laptop screen and Snapchat logo displayed on a phone screenTech

    Coca-Cola, Snapchat, Mattel and other top brands are adopting A.I. despite experts sounding the alarm: ‘We must embrace the risks’

    By Matt O'Brien, Haleluya Hadero, and others
  • Microsoft is rolling out its wayward Bing chatbot to smartphones.Tech

    Microsoft to launch Bing chatbot on smartphones after curbing its wayward A.I.

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • LeBron JamesTech

    The AP asked Bing about sports news on LeBron’s big day and it talked about the Super Bowl—in the past tense

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Satya NadellaTech

    Microsoft CEO says it’s important for AI to have ‘human preferences and societal norms’ as Bing launches with ChatGPT

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Zoubin Ghahramani, vice president of research at GoogleTech

    Google’s scramble to catch up to ChatGPT may be the tech battle of the next decade

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • The logo for OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, appears on a mobile phone, in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023.Tech

    ChatGPT just created a new tool to catch students trying to cheat using ChatGPT

    By Matt O'Brien, Jocelyn Gecker, and others
  • Satya Nadella CEO of MicrosoftSuccess

    Microsoft is laying off around 10,000 workers

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Tutorial class / section of a course during an English lesson in a school library at the “lycee prive Saint Francois de Sales de Troyes” private secondary / high school (10). Students, Secondary / high school students’, team work, guidance. (Photo by: Andia/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Tech

    Schools declare war against a new tech tool that students can use to cheat

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Satya NadellaTech

    Microsoft just got its first ever labor union in the U.S.—and it’s the largest in the history of the video game industry

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • a Microsoft logo on the side of an office buildingTech

    Microsoft just got its first U.S. labor union for jobs that are traditionally ‘treated poorly, paid very little, and treated as replaceable cogs’

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • The Activision Blizzard Booth during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, June 13, 2013. Microsoft is headed for a battle with the Federal Trade Commission, filing a formal challenge Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022, over whether the U.S. will block the tech giant’s planned takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)Tech

    Microsoft steps up to antitrust fight with FTC over $69 billion Activision acquisition

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press