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The city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was shaken by revelations in December 2023 that two local teenage boys shared hundreds of nude images of girls in their community over a private chat on the social chat platform Discord. Witnesses said the photos easily could have been mistaken for real ones, but... Read more

Artificial intelligence developer OpenAI is "not for sale", chief executive Sam Altman said in Paris Tuesday in response to a reported $97.4 billion bid from competitor Elon Musk.... Read more

Last week, Google quietly abandoned a long-standing commitment to not use artificial intelligence (AI) technology in weapons or surveillance. In an update to its AI principles, which were first published in 2018, the tech giant removed statements promising not to pursue:... Read more

Elon Musk is leading an investment group offering $97.4 billion for the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, marking a new front in his war with the ChatGPT-maker, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.... Read more

The digital revolution has opened unimagined opportunities, but it comes with a threat of leaving the most vulnerable workers behind.... Read more

In 1865, William Stanley Jevons first described a paradox. He maintained that more efficient steam engines would not decrease the use of coal in British factories but would actually increase it. As the fossil fuel became cheaper, demand for the resource would grow, leading to the construction of more engines.... Read more

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence has put the issue of compensation for content producers back on the table.... Read more

The integration of advanced technologies like augmented reality (AR) and digital twins is set to redefine the workforce's role, making humans an essential part of the manufacturing equation once again.... Read more

Finnish telecommunications equipment giant Nokia announced on Monday that chief executive Pekka Lundmark would step down and be replaced by Justin Hotard, the head of AI and data centers at US chip-maker Intel.... Read more

Elon Musk, the world's richest person and a top advisor to US President Donald Trump, said he has no interest in acquiring social media platform TikTok's operations in the United States, in comments released Saturday.... Read more

A major outage of Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN) on Saturday has left tens of thousands of gamers unable to access online services, stores and multimedia apps.... Read more

Air traffic is booming in India, even though only a tiny fraction of its people fly each year, and manufacturers are seeking lucrative deals at the flagship Aero India exhibition from Monday.... Read more

At IBM's Investor Day event in New York City this week, the first the company has held since 2021, a word executives stressed was "software."... Read more

US lawmakers on Thursday brought forth a bill to ban Chinese artificial intelligence program DeepSeek from being used on government devices over concerns about user data security.... Read more

Amazon on Thursday reported better-than-expected revenue and profits for the holiday shopping period, but its stocks dipped in after-hours trading due to disappointing guidance for the current quarter.... Read more