Technology
House Republican squares off against Nvidia, Sacks over AI chip bill
Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) is squaring off against chipmaker Nvidia and White House artificial intelligence (AI)...
Spotify to hike subscription price
Spotify last hiked fees for U.S. subscribers in June 2024, which marked the second increase in less than a yea...
California sends xAI cease and desist letter over sexualized deepfakes
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) sent a cease and desist letter Friday to xAI demanding that it stop...
Taiwan to invest more in US chip manufacturing in new trade deal
Taiwan has reached a trade agreement with the U.S., committing to a multibillion-dollar investment in American...
White House, bipartisan governors call on biggest US grid operator to lower prices
The Trump administration and a group of bipartisan governors are trying to pressure the nation’s largest regio...
X outages reported days after thousands briefly affected
Thousands of X users reported outages Friday, with the social media platform’s homepage showing an error messa...
Mother of Musk child sues over Grok sexualized images
Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, is suing the tech billionaire’s AI company, xAI,...
Senators scramble as crypto fissures threaten key bill
Senators are scrambling to find a way forward on key cryptocurrency legislation after the Senate Banking Commi...
Musk's Starlink offering free satellite internet service in Iran, activists say
SpaceX has made its Starlink technology free for users in Iran after the government implemented an internet bl...
Musk says he's not aware of any Grok-generated 'naked underage images'
Tech billionaire Elon Musk said he’s unaware of any instances in which his AI chatbot, Grok, generated nude ph...
Banks, crypto clash over stablecoin rewards in key Senate bill
A fight over whether stablecoin holders can receive reward payments has taken center stage in a push to secure...
Women's groups, watchdogs call on Google, Apple to pull X, Grok from app stores
A coalition of nearly 30 women’s, child safety and tech advocacy groups urged Google and Apple on Wednesday to...
Senate passes bill allowing victims of deepfake porn to sue
The Senate unanimously passed a bill Tuesday that would allow victims of nonconsensual deepfake pornography to...
Microsoft aims to minimize data centers' impact on electricity bills
Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith laid out a plan Tuesday to reduce the tech giant’s impact on ele...
6 in 10 say Big Tech has too much influence in DC
About 6 in 10 U.S. voters said technology companies have too much influence in Washington, according to new po...
UK to criminalize nonconsensual deepfakes amid probe into Grok AI
The crackdown comes as the U.K. media regulator Ofcom announced a formal investigation into Elon Musk's X.
Meta selects Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chair
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced Monday it has tapped former Trump adviser Dina P...
How artificial intelligence is reshaping the future of war
The Department of War has announced a new AI platform it is developing in partnership with Google.