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    Amazon, IBM, and Dell helped build China’s surveillance state brick by brick, investigation finds

    What started as ordinary tech sales to China became the foundation of a sweeping surveillance machine, powered by U.S. companies.

    By Dake Kang and The Associated Press
    September 9, 2025

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    Denmark catches Trump allies running ‘covert influence’ ops in Greenland as secret hit lists and backdoor tactics surface

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    xAI sues Apple and OpenAI

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    Germany nabs American working at military base who offered to spy for China

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    The terms of the U.S. government’s 10% Intel stake

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    August 25, 2025
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    Colleges have a new worry: ‘Ghost students’—AI powered fraud rings angling to get millions in financial aid

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    August 23, 2025
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    China’s DeepSeek quietly releases an open-source rival to GPT-5—optimized for Chinese chips and priced to undercut OpenAI

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    August 21, 2025
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    From Los Angeles to Manila, prosecutors say $300 million voting machine helped fund Smartmatic’s foreign bribes

    By Joshua Goodman, Jennifer Peltz and The Associated Press
    August 21, 2025
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    Students are so glued to their phones that 17 states are cracking down with ‘bell-to-bell’ bans for this school year

    By Jeff Amy and The Associated Press
    August 21, 2025
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    China’s secret weapon against the dollar is a yuan stablecoin

    By Elaine Kurtenbach and The Associated Press
    August 21, 2025
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    Coming soon: Meta’s ‘Hypernova’ smart glasses

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    August 18, 2025
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    U.S. secretly tracked AI shipments to see if they ended up in China

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    August 14, 2025
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    Apple has a new AI problem: Elon Musk

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    August 13, 2025
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    Hacker, bodyguard, target: AI’s triple act at the year’s biggest security showdowns

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    August 12, 2025
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    Ford’s new EV strategy includes $2 billion U.S. investment

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    August 12, 2025
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    The stakes for OpenAI with the launch of GPT-5

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    August 8, 2025
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    Behold, an AI model from OpenAI that’s…open

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    August 6, 2025
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    The auto industry isn’t ready for what comes after this Tesla Autopilot crash decision

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    August 4, 2025
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    What Figma’s debut says about the tech IPO landscape

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    August 1, 2025
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    Cybersecurity upstart Legion emerges from stealth with $38 million from Accel, Coatue, and others

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    July 30, 2025
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    The EU has a bone to pick with Temu

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    July 30, 2025
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    Samsung Electronics scores a major Tesla deal

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    July 29, 2025
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    Allianz Life says hackers accessed personal data on the majority of its 1.4 million US customers

    By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press
    July 26, 2025
    The Tea app was intended to help women date safely. Then hackers leaked 72,000 images online, including users’ selfies
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    The Tea app was intended to help women date safely. Then hackers leaked 72,000 images online, including users’ selfies

    By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press
    July 26, 2025
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    Arizona woman in North Korean IT workers scheme sentenced to 8.5 years for helping to trick Fortune 500 companies out of millions

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    July 24, 2025
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    Trial opens against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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    July 17, 2025
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    Crypto regulation bills stumble in Congress

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    July 16, 2025
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    So Elon, about that new federal contract…

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    July 15, 2025
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    Google beats OpenAI to the Windsurf punch

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    July 14, 2025
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    Tesla prepares to face its shareholders

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    July 11, 2025
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    A scammer used AI to impersonate the U.S. Secretary of State

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    July 9, 2025

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