Lawmakers raise alarm at Google plan to acquire Spirit Airlines data for AI models
More than 120 US lawmakers raised concerns on Thursday about a deal for Alphabet's Google unit to acquire defunct carrier Spirit Airlines' internal
October 09, 2026More than 120 US lawmakers raised concerns on Thursday about a deal for Alphabet's Google unit to acquire defunct carrier Spirit Airlines' internal
October 09, 2026President Donald Trump celebrated tech billionaires such as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at an event with arguably awkward timing
October 08, 2026The four leaders of US President Donald Trump's AI task force are slated to meet on Thursday, task force vice chair Scott Kupor told Reuters, adding
October 09, 2026Anthropic on Thursday launched tools that allow users to create data dashboards and animations through Claude, as AI companies vie to broaden their suite of workplace productivity
October 09, 2026Veterans in Des Moines receive AI glasses to improve daily life
October 09, 2026Alphabet's Google Cloud on Thursday introduced the Gemini agent, a single AI agent for work that can answer questions, handle tasks, create content and write code.
October 08, 2026Indiana 911 call center turns to AI to take non-emergency calls amid critical staffing shortage
October 08, 2026Why are the tech lords so bad at signing their names?
October 08, 2026Upscale AI, a startup valued at $2 billion in June, launched a networking platform on Thursday that allows customers to build data centers using AI chips from different suppliers.
October 08, 2026Amazon on Thursday unveiled a slate of higher-end tablets that for the first time feature its Alexa+ voice assistant and run on Google's Android
October 08, 2026AI models will refuse to say whether a person’s face looks gay or straight, but they will alter images of faces to fit stereotypes of gay and straight.
October 08, 2026‘Political chameleon’: How Mark Zuckerberg charmed Trump and got his way on AI
October 08, 2026A high-velocity drone launched at a disused Dutch airbase by the North Sea roars through the clouds and intercepts
October 08, 2026A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole Sovereign borrowers are no longer the big boys on the block as AI giants increasingly invade their turf.
October 08, 2026Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died
October 08, 2026Some of the guardrails for children that OpenAI included in its ChatGPT for Teens product do not work as intended and the chatbot poses an “unacceptable risk” to children
October 08, 2026U.S. stocks pulled back from their record
October 07, 2026Anthropic on Wednesday launched Claude Haiku 5.5, the third model in its Claude 5.5 family in the past month, expanding its artificial intelligence lineup ahead of a planned IPO.
October 08, 2026The US Federal Trade Commission is gearing up to take action against owner Booking Holdings over online ads that appear to direct consumers to a
October 07, 2026The Federal Communications Commission is considering a request to loosen rules on political robocalls, including those with AI-generated voices
October 07, 2026Huge companies have dominated AI. Two startups with an entirely different approach think they can do better
October 07, 2026The US government and tech heavyweights Meta Platforms and Google parent Alphabet are joining nonprofit Biohub to build open datasets to train AI models for biological
October 07, 2026The head of the International Monetary Fund says countries both rich and poor must take faster action to cut debt and counter growing inequality as their economies weather a triple whammy from the AI boom and shocks from wars in the Middle East and Ukraine
October 07, 2026Existential and financial risks posed by the artificial intelligence boom were top of mind for investors and policymakers at two conferences in Singapore
October 07, 2026AI is quickly changing. These tips from university librarians can help people keep pace with the shifts as they approach their research.
October 07, 2026Most US voters think President Donald Trump's administration and Congress are not taking the risks of AI seriously enough and want the
October 07, 2026Boston Dynamics, a humanoid robot maker owned by Hyundai Motor Group, said it had appointed Rohit Prasad as chief executive officer, effective October 7.
October 07, 2026The US Justice Department directed its employees on Tuesday to use the words "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" when referring
October 07, 2026McDonald’s is facing a federal lawsuit that alleges its AI-enhanced pricing tool violates antitrust laws because it shares nonpublic data with competing franchisees
October 07, 2026US power consumption will rise to record highs in 2026 and 2027, driven by AI-hungry data centers and electrification, the US Energy Information
October 06, 2026Computer-memory company Netlist announced on Tuesday that Micron would pay $600 million to settle a patent dispute over Micron's memory chips.
October 06, 2026Citigroup estimates Meta's AI assistant Muse could generate more than $27 billion in revenue by 2030 as strong user adoption and growing engagement reinforce the platform's first-
October 06, 2026Wall Street is booming. Surging yields could shake things up
October 06, 2026Rapid energy inflation across the euro zone has not yet spread to other goods and services, and the recent rise in bond yields is likely to dampen price pressures as it
October 06, 2026Aragon, a sparsely populated region of northeast Spain, has become one of Europe's fastest-growing digital
October 06, 2026The World Bank has raised Africa's 2026 economic growth forecast to 4.3%, citing stronger performance across the region, and urged governments to embrace
October 06, 2026AMD plans to substantially increase chip supply in 2027 as the US chipmaker races to meet booming demand from artificial intelligence, CEO Lisa Su said on
October 06, 2026OpenAI and Anthropic told Australian parliament on Tuesday they would welcome laws requiring them to report data breaches carried out by their AI agents,
October 06, 2026Nvidia-backed Reflection AI debuted its first open-weight model named Beam on Monday, as the startup aims to compete with lower-cost Chinese models such as DeepSeek and Kimi in
October 06, 2026Conservation group The Wilderness Society on Monday called for a moratorium on artificial intelligence data centers on federal lands, citing concerns over water use, electricity
October 06, 2026Artificial intelligence insiders are warning New York City’s leaders about dangers of the emerging technology, calling for greater oversight as local governments move to respond to mounting safety concerns
October 06, 2026AstraZeneca said on Monday it would spend more than $1 billion in Massachusetts as part of its broader $50 billion US investment plan, a move expected to expand its workforce in the
October 05, 2026The lengthy campaigns to protect kids on social media offer some lessons for those looking to protect children using artificial intelligence
October 02, 2026Hollywood turns on big tech — at least on screen
October 05, 2026Anthropic expected to IPO despite market uncertainty, AI slowdown calls
October 05, 2026France's Schneider Electric struck its biggest deal ever on Monday, agreeing to buy US software company PTC for around $22.6
October 05, 2026Rising political opposition to US data centers has limited near-term impact on their rapid expansion, Goldman Sachs said, with its growth outlook through 2027 remaining largely
October 05, 2026China's Huawei Technologies said on Monday it had agreed a broad multi-year patent licence deal with Qualcomm covering artificial intelligence, 5G, computing and networking
October 05, 2026On Jan. 1, the next United Nations secretary-general will take over an aging global organization controlled by World War II powers
October 05, 2026Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon will testify at a New York City hearing on artificial intelligence, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
October 05, 2026SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted on Sunday that he would rename the company's AI unit to SpaceXSI, following US President Donald Trump's push to use the term "super intelligence" instead
October 04, 2026Trump announces leadership of AI task force
October 04, 2026President Donald Trump has tapped his director of national intelligence, Jay Clayton, to lead a new government task force on artificial intelligence
October 04, 2026US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he had named Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton the administration's AI czar, tasking him with coordinating the federal
October 04, 2026Bull, the state-owned French maker of Europe's fastest supercomputers, reopened an expanded factory on Thursday to double its production capacity, executives told
October 02, 2026Global M&A activity in the third quarter totalled $993 billion, down 41% compared to the prior quarter, marking the first quarter to
October 02, 2026Singapore's Temasek is not worried about the massive levels of
October 01, 2026Chinese hackers impersonated an Anthropic exec to get information about AI
October 01, 2026UVM researchers developing AI 'digital twins' to help personalize ICU care
October 01, 2026San Francisco-based semiconductor startup Volantis on Thursday said it has raised $88 million in venture capital in an effort to solve a key
October 01, 2026Tech nonprofit faces 156% rent hike as AI fuels office demand
October 01, 2026The architecture of automated license plate readers turns local cameras into a far-reaching surveillance network that can be accessed by agencies that never purchased the devices.
October 01, 2026Since OpenAI disclosed this summer that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company in what is now referred to as the Hugging Face incident, other AI companies have jumped on the bandwagon with their own concerning events, such as hacking or runaway bots seemingly evading human control
September 30, 2026Tencent signed its largest overseas lease deal with US cloud provider Oracle to access about 100,000 advanced AI chips that were not available in China, the Financial Times
October 01, 2026‘Trump, Trump, Trump,’ Democrats’ hold on California and other takeaways from the governor debate
October 01, 2026South Korea's exports jumped 83.5% in September from a year earlier to a record $120.9 billion, government data showed on Thursday, as semiconductor shipments
October 01, 2026California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed laws aimed at protecting workers from the risks of artificial intelligence
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October 01, 2026Hegseth announces new autonomous weapons command while repeating attacks on ‘woke’ culture during speech to troops
October 01, 2026Alphabet's Google on Wednesday announced a new top-tier artificial intelligence model to anchor its Gemini 4 generation of models in a fresh bid to
October 01, 2026Synopsys, a maker of software used in designing computing chips, said on Wednesday that it has struck a deal to share revenue with OpenAI as the
October 01, 2026Anthropic is planning what could be the largest initial public offering in history.
October 01, 2026The US Senate on Wednesday blocked legislation requiring state utility regulators to consider whether large electricity users,
September 30, 2026ElevenLabs said on Wednesday it had completed a $300 million employee tender offer valuing the AI voice generation startup at $22 billion, twice the valuation it secured in its
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