Kara Swisher is expanding her influence from tech journalism to politics.

South Korean tech giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix plan to invest a combined $518 billion in a new computer chip manufacturing hub, capitalizing on surging artificial intelligence-driven demand.

OpenAI has restricted the release of its new AI model at the request of President Donald Trump's administration.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his government is giving priority to strengthening the world's first laws that ban children younger than 16 from social media platforms.

A former Meta executive whose memoir, “Careless People,” provides an explosive insider account of her time at the social media giant, has sued the company for attempting to “silence” her.

Seminole County doesn’t have any large-scale AI data centers — and there are no concrete plans to build one. But county commissioners aren’t waiting for that to change before asking a critical question: Should they have rules in place before one arrives? This week, commissioners began discussing whether a moratorium on data centers is needed as they plan for the county’s future.

Apple on Thursday announced an increase in prices for Macs and iPads, citing a memory chip shortage brought on by the artificial intelligence boom.

A new bipartisan nonprofit wants to help Americans who find they're out of work because of AI.

A new AP-NORC poll shows that most Americans are inundated with scam attempts on a daily basis — and about 3 in 10 have personally lost money or personal information to scams.

A former New York City Council candidate has been charged with forgery over allegations he used artificial intelligence to post fake endorsements and news articles on social media.

A federal lawsuit accuses gas station operators in California of using AI-powered software to illegally collude and raise prices.

Alibaba has sued the U.S. Department of Defense, demanding removal from a list naming it a Chinese military company.

Agility Robotics, a maker of humanlike robots, is going public on Wall Street.

As the world tries to curb human-caused climate change and not run dry of water, every online query is increasing our environmental footprint and exacerbating the problem.

A U.S. official says one of Anthropic’s artificial intelligence models identified vulnerabilities in highly sensitive and secure U.S. government computer systems during a testing exercise.

AI "world models" are the next frontier for computer scientists who see too many limitations in the AI language models behind popular chatbots.

Tech companies are spending big on AI, but investors are getting nervous.

Georgia will stick with an embattled vote-counting method that relies on QR codes for this year’s midterm elections after state lawmakers passed legislation that put off making changes until 2028.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has successfully backed three allies in Democratic U.S. House primaries.

The World Cup has been delivering thrills on the pitch, but fans have flooded social media with complaints about tickets that never arrived, orders canceled at the last minute and hours spent trying to sort out problems between FIFA’s ticketing system and outside resale platforms.

A federal judge has extended his block on enforcement of an Ohio law that would require children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps while a legal challenge proceeds.

Federal regulators have ordered regional grid operators to help large energy users connect more quickly to the nation’s inefficient and aging electric transmission system.

Kansas City, Missouri, plans to boost security by installing facial recognition cameras on buses.

The man who died in this week's crash of a small jet in Texas was a well-known entrepreneur named Joshua Baer who was a successful investor in technology startup companies.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is proposing a plan to give Americans ownership stakes in the country’s largest artificial intelligence companies.

New York Democratic Assemblyman Alex Bores is running for Congress, and the tech industry is deeply involved.

French President Emmanuel Macron is urging the U.S. not to keep cutting-edge AI to itself, calling for global cooperation on AI regulation.

Vozinha gasped and laughed in shock when shown the number of new Instagram followers he had gained after helping tiny Cape Verde hold off powerhouse Spain in his team’s World Cup debut.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — whose work helped propel artificial intelligence — is stressing in an Associated Press interview that society has no choice but to change in the advent of AI.

Eatonville leaders will consider a “call to action” aimed at increasing transparency and community input as a data center project draws questions from residents.

Nvidia is betting on artificial intelligence to revive U.S. manufacturing.

SpaceX will move forward with its $60 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Cursor as Elon Musk’s space exploration and AI company seeks a competitive edge against rivals Anthropic and OpenAI after its Wall Street debut last week.

Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group Corp. is launching a service using OpenAI technology to protect against the looming threat of cyberattacks.

A group of cybersecurity executives and experts is asking the Trump administration to lift its directive preventing the use of Anthropic’s latest artificial intelligence models by foreign nationals, saying the move could help U.S. adversaries more than it hurts them.

A News 6 photographer spotted one on Monday: a gold-colored Tesla coupe with an obscured rear window, driving up Pine Hills Road in Orange County. The vehicle is a Tesla Cybercab, and we may see more of these cars in the future.

Florida’s attorney general is accusing social media platform TikTok of breaking the state’s social media laws, letting kids younger than 14 keep their accounts and deceiving parents about the platform’s risks in a new lawsuit.

Britain plans to ban people under 16 from using social media apps like Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube to protect them from harmful content.

Fox Corp. is buying streaming platform Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $22 billion.

The use of advanced sonar to catch fish has some anglers divided about the point of heading out onto the lake.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain will ban children under 16 from using social media apps like Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube from early next year.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says countries must learn the lesson of diversification after AI giant Anthropic said it has taken its latest artificial intelligence models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline to comply with a directive from the Trump administration to prevent their use by foreign nationals.

Georgia lawmakers are expected to try to clean up an election mess of their own making when they return to the Capitol this week for a special session.

OpenAI received a subpoena from several states as part of a probe into the safety of customers using its chatbot as it prepares to offer stock to the public for the first time.

Legislation in two of the nation's most populous states could force 3D printers to come equipped with technology blocking them from making guns.

AI giant Anthropic says it has taken its latest artificial intelligence models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline to comply with a directive from the Trump administration to prevent their use by foreign nationals.

A coalition including Kalshi, Crypto.

The U.S. Justice Department has determined that Paramount Skydance’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and now first-ever trillionaire, controls a lot of different businesses.

The opening lyrics couldn’t be plainer: “I am from Bosnia; take me to America.”.

Shares of SpaceX soared 19% in their Wall Street debut, making the rocket maker’s founder and CEO Elon Musk the first-ever trillionaire.

Amazon opened a new, first-of-its-kind distribution center in Deltona on Wednesday, a move company officials say will help streamline deliveries across Central Florida while adding hundreds of jobs.

Anthropic will donate $150 million to launch a fellowship program called Claude Corps that plans to help nonprofits effectively use artificial intelligence by embedding 1,000 trained fellows in various organizations for a year.

Many workers fear machines will supplant them as adoption of artificial intelligence accelerates.

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX is set to make its debut on Wall Street Friday.

Anthropic has joined calls for the AI industry to find ways to cushion people from AI's disruptions to the workforce.

Visa is embedding its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to shop and complete transactions for users.

In Brazil, home of soccer-mad fans and the five-time world champions, the only way to watch all 104 games of the World Cup will be through the streaming platform anchored by a digital influencer.

When SpaceX makes its debut on the U.S. stock market, it wants smaller-pocketed, mom-and-pop investors to play a big role in what may be the biggest IPO ever.

Anyone following SpaceX’s plans to sell shares to the public is likely to hear terms thrown around that describe steps and components of an initial public offering.

Taiwan's military has sent rockets in China's direction from “shoot and scoot” launchers in a demonstration of how it might defend itself against an attack.

Bill Gates says he made an error in judgment by ever meeting with Jeffrey Epstein as the Microsoft co-founder faces questions behind closed doors from lawmakers about his relationship with the disgraced financier.

Fans who hear the whirring sound of a drone over a stadium might see it as a nuisance but law enforcement has long viewed those aircraft as a potential weapon of mass destruction.

New York has implemented a law requiring advertisements featuring AI-generated people to clearly label them as “synthetic performers.”.

European Union regulators have ordered Meta Platforms to restore access to WhatsApp for rival AI chatbot makers.

Apple and the European Union are blaming each other for delaying the rollout of Apple's Siri AI app to European users.

Humanoid robots struggling with tasks like grasping a cup have a new teacher — a person wearing an ultrasound wristband that captures the movement of muscles, tendons and ligaments beneath the skin.

Sweden is set to ban mobile phones in schools from the next academic year as part of a broad reversal on the use of screens in classrooms.

OpenAI has filed preliminary paperwork to potentially become a publicly traded company.

The Pentagon has added several prominent Chinese businesses to its list of Chinese military companies.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has met with Sen. Bernie Sanders to discuss public ownership in AI companies — a meeting that highlighted the tension between AI powerhouses and policymakers.

In a June 6 story about humanoid robots in China, The Associated Press misspelled the name of Matrix Robotics’ CEO.

President Donald Trump is calling for the U.S. military and national security agencies to accelerate their use of artificial intelligence.

Anthropic is proposing that top AI companies coordinate a way to pause the development of advanced AI systems if they become too dangerous.

A new study finds that smoke from larger wildfires is reversing more than a decade of American improvements in smog.

The Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration in a case about the power of federal regulators over telecommunications companies.

Some of the leading artificial intelligence companies are moving toward initial public offerings this year at eye-popping valuations.

SpaceX says it plans to raise up to $75 billion when it goes public this month, setting the stage for the largest-ever stock market debut and putting Elon Musk on course to becoming the world’s first trillionaire.

Polymarket is ending its paid relationship with George Santos as federal regulators investigate him for possible insider trading.

According to a United Nations University report, the environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries.

British competition regulators have mandated that Google must allow news sites to opt out of having their content scraped for AI overviews.

A California man known as the crypto “Godfather” has admitted to playing a key role in a botched Connecticut kidnapping nearly two years ago.

President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order on oversight of artificial intelligence, less than two weeks after postponing a White House ceremony over his concerns that a similar policy could dull America’s edge on AI technology.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin says last week's rocket explosion spared fuel tanks and some other critical parts of the launch pad.

Israel's weapons exports reached a record high of over $19 billion last year, marking a 30% increase from 2024, according to Israel's Defense Ministry.

Pope Leo XIV has issued a manifesto calling for robust regulation of artificial intelligence.

Florida is accusing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, of harmful and deceptive practices in a first-in-the-nation lawsuit against the maker of ChatGPT. Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the lawsuit on Monday.

The state of Florida has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming the company knowingly released and aggressively marketed ChatGPT to the public while concealing serious risks.

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is moving toward going public on Wall Street, the latest chapter in its meteoric rise from a little-known research laboratory to one of the leading AI companies valued at $965 billion.

The rise of remote work since the pandemic has made businesses more reluctant to hire young, inexperienced workers and is the key driver of higher unemployment rates for recent college graduates, a study released Monday has found.

Nvidia has unveiled powerful new chips to bring advanced artificial intelligence to Windows laptops and desktops.

Malaysia has started enforcing rules to prevent children under 16 from having social media accounts.

The Trump administration is pushing to use artificial intelligence in the U.S. military even as it faces calls for caution from some companies and military leaders.

Russian intelligence agencies have grown more aggressive in their efforts to steal Western technology and defense secrets as sanctions squeeze the country’s wartime economy.

Artificial intelligence is helping a London-based singer-songwriter continue writing and recording music after Parkinson’s disease largely took away his ability to play guitar.

The decades-long quest to build home robots that are both helpful and lifelike — spurred on by fictional machines like The Jetsons’ humanoid maid Rosie —- is still mostly a pipe dream, but some developers are getting closer.

A rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has exploded during a test at the launch pad.

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said Thursday it raised $65 billion in private funding that will push its valuation to $965 billion, a whopping number that makes the 5-year-old research laboratory behind the Claude chatbot one of the world’s most valuable startups as it careens toward a likely Wall Street debut.

Ohio is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states to attract the massive new facilities that power and train artificial intelligence chatbots.

U.S. prosecutors slapped insider trading charges against a Google employee this week, alleging the software engineer used confidential company information to pocket more than $1.2 million on prediction market platform Polymarket.

European Union regulators have fined Chinese online retailer Temu for failing to protect consumers from illegal products.