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Character.AI bans teens from talking to its chatbots amid mounting lawsuits and regulatory pressure

The move follows lawsuits alleging Character.AI’s chatbots encouraged self-harm and ongoing investigations into child safety.

By Beatrice Nolan

October 29, 2025

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Aerial View villas, home, intercostal, bridges, Ocean from Delray Beach, Florida

Florida’s housing market was skewed wildly by the pandemic. It’s finally coming to grips with a ‘realistic middle ground’

Top analyst still thinks we’re on the cusp of a new boom for the economy, but investors aren’t with him: ‘Markets remain choppy’

By Nick Lichtenberg

‘He was very proud, but never said it’: One of the greatest soccer managers alive on how his dad motivated him to work harder

By Nick Lichtenberg

Coinbase, Robinhood down as Amazon outage briefly cripples the internet

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A cyclist rides a bicycle past a sign at Apple Inc.'s campus in Cork, Ireland.

Ireland’s special relationship with Apple and Google has created a multibillion-dollar windfall—and an existential crisis

September 11, 2024

EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager looking very happy after winning Apple and Google cases

Apple’s iPhone 16 victory lap is spoiled by the EU’s ‘tax lady’ and her record $14.4 billion legal victory

September 10, 2024

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov delivers his keynote conference during day two of the Mobile World Congress at the Fira Gran Via complex in Barcelona, Spain on February 23, 2016.

Starlink’s capitulation to Brazil and Telegram’s house cleaning show the game has changed for tech titans in a big way

September 9, 2024

Fortune

Would a gen AI-powered Alexa return real profits for Amazon?

By Jason Del Rey

September 6, 2024

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

No one has gained more wealth this year than Mark Zuckerberg, who is up $56 billion

By Paolo Confino

September 6, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives at Baku's airport, August 18, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan.

What Russia’s propaganda campaign tells us about the fight against disinformation

September 5, 2024

Jensen Huang, wearing a Giants baseball jersey and baseball glove on his left hand, stands with his arms out wide after apparently throwing out the first pitch.

Nvidia shares keep falling. Should you buy the dip?

By Greg McKenna

September 4, 2024

Jensen Huang, President of NVIDIA seen at a press conference during the COMPUTEX 2023.

Nvidia’s outsized role is coming back to bite the markets

September 4, 2024

One man in center of the photo on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange covers one hand over his mouth (his other hand is holding a tablet) while another man in the foreground looks up in the same direction with a worried look on his face.

A Nobel winner’s famous metric says stocks are way overpriced. Should you be worried?

By Greg McKenna

September 4, 2024

Canva says its new AI features justify raising subscription prices by 300%

Canva says its new AI features justify raising subscription prices by 300%

September 3, 2024

Millions of new users flock to Bluesky after Elon Musk’s X is banned in Brazil

Millions of new users flock to Bluesky after Elon Musk’s X is banned in Brazil

September 3, 2024

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (left); Elon Musk (right)

Brazil’s president says Elon Musk’s wealth doesn’t mean world has to accept his ‘far-right ideology’

By Eleanor Pringle

September 3, 2024

Drone companies are making huge leaps in regulatory approvals—the path to scale will still be tough

Drone companies are making huge leaps in regulatory approvals—the path to scale will still be tough

By Jessica Mathews

August 30, 2024

Young woman at the beach talks pink "Barbie" phone

The $130 Barbie dumbphone is targeting Gen Z’s nostalgia for an era they can’t remember

By Chloe Berger

August 29, 2024

Chart shows companies in the $1 trillion club

Warren Buffett gets early birthday present as Berkshire Hathaway joins $1 trillion club

By Greg McKenna

August 28, 2024

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang sells $14 million in stock almost daily—raising questions about his successor

By Eleanor Pringle

August 22, 2024

I’m a woman working in ‘deep tech.’ Here’s why you don’t see more women in AI (hint: it isn’t a pipeline problem)

I’m a woman working in ‘deep tech.’ Here’s why you don’t see more women in AI (hint: it isn’t a pipeline problem)

By Brooke Hartley Moy

August 21, 2024

Google cofounder Larry Page signs the clear screen in front of him as other men clap as Google is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange for the first time

Google went public 20 years ago—what your $1000 investment would be worth today

By Greg McKenna

August 20, 2024

There are only 15 people whose wealth is greater than $100 billion (and they’d be richer if they weren’t giving it away)

There are only 15 people whose wealth is greater than $100 billion (and they’d be richer if they weren’t giving it away)

By Orianna Rosa Royle

August 20, 2024

The FuboTV app on a television arranged in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024.

Fubo shares surge over 40% after judge blocks the launch of ESPN, Fox, and Warner’s Venu sports app

August 19, 2024

Photo of Bill Gates (left) and Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett’s friendship with Bill Gates has soured. What that means for the $77 billion Gates Foundation

By Greg McKenna

August 19, 2024

photograph of an iPhone displaying various apps

The problem with the war against Temu and Shein

By Jason Del Rey

August 16, 2024

Bill Gates ‘terrified’ employees at his foundation, book claims, where meetings felt like a king holding court

Bill Gates ‘terrified’ employees at his foundation, book claims, where meetings felt like a king holding court

August 16, 2024

Will air taxis be ready to fly passengers by the next Olympics?

Will air taxis be ready to fly passengers by the next Olympics?

By Jessica Mathews

August 15, 2024

Brian Rakowski, vice president of product management for Pixel at Alphabet Inc., during the Made By Google launch event in Mountain View, California, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024.

Google’s AI-packed Pixel event showed it has the upper hand in its Apple battle—for now

August 14, 2024

Donald Trump Twitter account displayed on a laptop screen and Elon Musk Twitter account displayed on a phone screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on November 22, 2022.

Elon Musk shouldn’t feel too bad about X’s technical problems during his Trump chat

August 13, 2024

Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey seen during the UEFA EURO 2024 match between Netherlands and Turkey at Olympiastadion in Berlin.

Signal, Instagram, and X feel the heat of censorship by authoritarian governments

August 12, 2024

Intel is the latest Fortune 500 giant to test the ‘4 wrong CEOs’ rule

Intel is the latest Fortune 500 giant to test the ‘4 wrong CEOs’ rule

By Geoff Colvin

August 10, 2024

Netlist founder and CEO Chuck Hong.

Big Tech’s abuse of the patent system must end—take it from me, I’ve fought Google over IP for years

August 9, 2024

Amid the negative headlines, it’s easy to forget the tech industry can still amaze and do good too

Amid the negative headlines, it’s easy to forget the tech industry can still amaze and do good too

By Verne Kopytoff

August 9, 2024

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