Elon Musk's xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to block a state law that imposes a $500,000 fine on AI developers each time a user generates a nonconsensual intimate image, arguing …
Mark Zuckerberg and Ari Emanuel used Wall Street Journal op-eds to frame corporate consolidation as populist liberation, with Zuckerberg arguing against concentrated AI power while Emanuel backed Para…
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorism and placed him on an international wanted list for refusing to censor content on the messaging ap…
The Salamanca City Central School District in New York approved a nearly $60,000 purchase of an AI humanoid robot from Realbotix, a company whose sister firm makes hyper-realistic sex dolls, without v…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg urged Washington to drop barriers against Chinese AI models and chip export limits in a Financial Times interview and Wall Street Journal op-ed published Tuesday, arguing that…
BlackRock is acquiring an 80% stake in Meta's $14 billion data center in El Paso, Texas, under a joint venture that keeps the debt off Meta's balance sheet. BlackRock will contribute $4.9 billion in c…
The AI stock bubble is deflating, with chip stocks cratering globally Tuesday as investors fled the sector, sending South Korea's Kospi index down more than 10 percent and dragging the Nasdaq into cor…
BlackRock is set to take an 80 percent stake in Meta's $14 billion, one-gigawatt AI data center project in El Paso, giving the world's largest asset manager direct control over infrastructure powering…
Democrat Paige Cognetti, the Scranton mayor, is running a $200,000 TV ad blitz against AI data centers in her bid to unseat freshman Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan in a Pennsylvania swing district, acc…
Hundreds of private Claude AI conversations containing medical records, crypto keys, children's names, and internal company documents were indexed and searchable on Google and Bing over the weekend. A…
Verizon is leasing dark fiber routes to Google for over $1 billion under a new initiative called 'AI Connect,' converting its central offices into edge AI data centers, while laying off 13,000 workers…
Meta on Monday began rolling out Meta AI within Threads DMs globally, allowing users to share posts, images, links, and videos directly with the assistant. TechCrunch and 9to5Mac framed the move as a …
Nvidia formed a 37-member Open Secure AI Alliance excluding OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google after their closed models blocked a breach investigation at Hugging Face, forcing the use of open-weight model…
Best Buy is discounting Microsoft's Copilot+ AI laptops by up to $730 for back-to-school shoppers, with prices starting at $329.99, but the devices are designed to continuously collect user data, incl…
Google's new 'Recover storage' feature in Google Photos compresses original-quality photos and videos to free up account space, but the company retains all user data for AI training, according to repo…
Alphabet shares plunged more than 7% on Thursday after the Google parent revealed it plans to spend up to $205 billion on capital expenditures this year and reported negative free cash flow for the fi…
Major tech companies including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta are investing billions in nuclear power to supply their AI data centers, with Microsoft signing a 20-year, $16 billion contract to re…
Google Maps star ratings have become so unreliable that tech writers now ignore them, according to Android Police, which reported that the platform's AI-generated review summaries under a "Know before…
Meta attempted to impose a $20 monthly paywall on Conversation Focus, an on-device accessibility feature for its smart glasses that requires no internet connection, limiting free use to three hours pe…
Meta has withdrawn from RE100, a corporate clean energy pledge, citing the need for reliable power from natural gas to fuel its AI data centers. The company has committed to funding at least 10 new ga…