Latest Artificial intelligence News

Musk and Trump are viewed roughly the same by Americans, an AP-NORC poll finds

Dec. 18, 2024 12:09 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk, clad in tuxedo and black tie, took the stage at President-elect Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort shortly after the election with all the swagger of the winning candidate himself. “The public has given us a mandate that could not be more clear, the...

What does Big Tech hope to gain from warming up to Trump?

Dec. 17, 2024 18:55 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — In a string of visits, dinners, calls, monetary pledges and social media overtures, big tech chiefs — including Apple's Tim Cook, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos — have joined a parade of business and world...

Why is tech giant SoftBank investing over $100 billion in the US?

Dec. 17, 2024 05:50 AM EST

BANGKOK (AP) — Japanese tycoon Masayoshi Son and President-elect Donald Trump have announced plans for technology and telecoms giant SoftBank Group to invest $100 billion in projects in the United States over the coming four years. Trump said the investments in building artificial...

Book Review: 'The Rivals' is Jane Pek’s fine new mystery novel of online dating, love and death

Dec. 16, 2024 13:49 PM EST

Claudia Lin, an online dating detective in the age of AI, is hunting once again through a dark cybersphere of tech systems in “The Rivals,” the second novel in a new mystery series by Jane Pek. Pek, who introduced Claudia in her 2022 debut book, “The Verifiers,” has given the...

OpenAI's legal battle with Elon Musk reveals internal turmoil over avoiding AI 'dictatorship'

Dec. 13, 2024 18:44 PM EST

A 7-year-old rivalry between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and prevent an artificial intelligence "dictatorship" is now heading to a federal judge as Musk seeks to halt the ChatGPT maker's ongoing shift into a for-profit company. Musk, an early...

Sophia, a famous robot and global icon of AI, wins hearts at Zimbabwe's innovation fair

Dec. 13, 2024 12:42 PM EST

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — From answering questions from Cabinet ministers, academics and students on climate change, substance abuse and the law to children’s inquiries about her “birth” and links to God and being described as a talkative feminist, Sophia, the world-famous robot won hearts at...

US updates a science and technology pact with China to reflect growing rivalry and security threats

Dec. 13, 2024 11:55 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has updated a decades-old science and technology agreement with China to reflect their growing rivalry for technological dominance. The new agreement, signed Friday in Beijing after many months of negotiations, has a narrower scope and additional safeguards to minimize...

Meta to build $10 billion AI data center in Louisiana as Elon Musk expands his Tennessee AI facility

Dec. 11, 2024 19:06 PM EST

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The largest artificial intelligence data center ever built by Facebook’s parent company Meta is coming to northeast Louisiana, the company said Wednesday, bringing hopes that the $10 billion facility will transform an economically neglected corner of the state. ...

Google forges ahead with its next generation of AI technology while fending off a breakup threat

Dec. 11, 2024 15:59 PM EST

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google on Wednesday unleashed another wave of artificial intelligence designed to tackle more of the work and thinking done by humans as it tries to stay on the technology's cutting edge while also trying to fend off regulatory threats to its empire. The next...

Apple's latest iPhones get the gift of more AI as holiday shopping season heats up

Dec. 11, 2024 15:35 PM EST

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is pumping more artificial intelligence into the latest iPhones during the holiday shopping season with a free software update that includes a feature that enables users to create customized emojis within a matter of seconds. The Wednesday release of the...