Interpreter Yves Valerus speaks at a LanguageLine press conference in front of New York City Hall in April. LanguageLine interpreters have had their hours drastically cut after the company said it experienced fewer customer demand and started using new scheduling software. Some workers are trying to organize a union.
Artificial Intelligence robots demonstrate working on power grid control units during a media organized tour at Guangdong Power Grid Robotics Laboratory in Guangzhou, in southern China's Guangdong province, Thursday, April 16, 2026.
The European Union's executive arm on Wednesday accused Meta of failing to protect young children from the harms of social media. The European Commission said Meta, the company behind several social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, breached its own rules of only allowing children above 13 years of age on their platforms.
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China blocked US tech giant Meta from acquiring the AI firm Manus on Monday. China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said in a one-line statement that it would "prohibit foreign investment in Manus in accordance with laws and regulations, and requires the parties involved to withdraw the acquisition transaction."
This aerial view shows residential lots cleared after homes were destroyed in the January 2025 Eaton Fire beside homes that are still standing in Altadena, Calif.
The jury is set to be selected on Monday for a high-profile trial pitting the world's richest person, Elon Musk, against a company he once backed and that is now a major rival in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector, OpenAI.
Data centers need vast amounts of energy to fuel servers and process the information that keeps our websites, applications and generative AI models running. The United States has more data centers than anywhere else in the world and the extra energy demand is straining transmission grids and driving up the cost of electricity.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman speak at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Oct. 6, 2015, in San Francisco.
Can't see the video above? Watch it here . Police in Virginia used a technique called geofencing to tap into Google's databases to find out who was near the scene of a bank robbery in the town of Midlothian, where a robber pulled out a gun and subsequently fled with $195,000.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologized to the Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge following a February mass shooting that left eight dead. Altman said he was "deeply sorry" the company didn't alert the police about the shooter's troubling ChatGPT accounts. Britich Colombia Primier David Eby called the apology "necessary, and yet grossly insufficient." How did OpenAI fail to act?
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released a preview version of its new model, the V4, on Friday. The long-awaited next-generation model "features an ultra-long context of one million words," the company said in a statement on social media. The DeepSeek-V4 is available in a pro version and a cheaper flash version.