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  • CEO of OpenAI Samuel Altman testifies at a hearing of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence in Washington, D.C., the United States, on May 16, 2023. (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/Xinhua via Getty Images)Tech

    Buzzy ChatGPT debuts an iPhone app in its latest challenge to Google’s search dominance

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Sam AltmanTech

    Sam Altman pleads with Congress to regulate ‘increasingly powerful’ A.I. systems like his ChatGPT

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the debt ceiling at the White HouseTech

    White House is working with hackers to ‘jailbreak’ ChatGPT’s safeguards

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • President Joe Biden listens as Vice President Kamala Harris speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 1, 2023, about National Small Business Week. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Tech

    Vice President Kamala Harris is meeting with the chiefs of Google and Microsoft as the Biden administration wrestles with guidance for A.I.

    By Matt O'Brien, Josh Boak, and others
  • File – Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton poses at Google’s Mountain View, Calif, headquarters on Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Computer scientists who helped build the foundations of today’s artificial intelligence technology are warning of its dangers, but that doesn’t mean they agree on the risks or how to prevent disastrous outcomes. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)Tech

    A wave of A.I. luminaries are sending out grim warnings about the new tech but not everyone thinks the situation is so dire

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 12: Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith speaks at the Semafor World Economic Summit on April 12, 2023 in Washington, DC. The event features interviews with business and government leaders discussing the global economy and financial markets. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Tech

    Microsoft’s policy chief gets tough with British regulators after the company’s charm offensive fails to push through its Activision Blizzard deal

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • 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