The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has outlined a new strategy to expand its use of artificial intelligence.

Russian authorities say they have imposed restrictions on Apple's video calling service FaceTime, alleging it was being used for organizing what it called “terrorist activities.”.

Venmo says that an issue impacting the payment service has been fixed and it is “back up and running,” after users reported trouble sending and receiving money.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is making the rounds in Washington.

The end of 2025 is near.

Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show earlier this year featured a stage design resembling a giant PlayStation controller.

OpenAI has awarded $40.5 million to more than 200 nonprofits in the first round of grants it has made since it rebranded its nonprofit as the OpenAI Foundation in October.

Chile has passed a bill outlawing the use of mobile phones and other smart devices during classes at elementary and middle schools.

India’s telecoms ministry has rolled back its order for smartphone manufacturers to preinstall a government-run cybersecurity app on new devices.

Australia is set to enforce its age limit for social media accounts starting next week, and the platforms must provide monthly reports on how many children's accounts they have closed or face fines.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing online retailer Temu and its parent company PDD Holdings Inc., claiming the Chinese company is stealing customers' data and violating state consumer protection laws.

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A new report by the United Nations Development Program is urging governments to focus more on how artificial intelligence technologies might affect people already disadvantaged in a data-driven world.

Students applying to college know they're not supposed to use AI chatbots to write their essays.

India’s telecoms ministry has ordered smartphone manufacturers to install a government-run cybersecurity app on all new devices.

A new app designed by a pair of computer scientists aims to revolutionize the way figure skating is judged.

Airlines around the world canceled and delayed flights heading into the weekend to fix software on a widely used commercial plane after an analysis found computer code may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a JetBlue aircraft last month.

Airlines around the world canceled and delayed flights heading into the weekend to fix software on a widely used commercial plane after an analysis found computer code may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a JetBlue aircraft last month.

George Clooney playing a dashing movie star with nagging midlife regrets in “Jay Kelly” and Zac Brown Band returning with fresh tunes are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

South Korea launched its largest satellite yet on its nationally developed space rocket in the fourth of six launches planned through 2027.

Mexico plans to build Latin America's most powerful supercomputer.

The Australian government says children under 16 will be banned from social media next month as scheduled despite a legal challenge.

INEOS plans to transform the Nini oil field in the North Sea into a carbon storage site.

A federal judge has called out an immigration enforcement agent for using artificial intelligence to write the narrative of a use-of-force report as just a small part of a scathing opinion that rebutted federal officials' narratives about appropriate force used against protesters and others during an ongoing immigration crackdown in Chicago.

Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X unveiled a feature that lets users see where an account is based.

In a year in which technology news was dominated by artificial intelligence, the outstanding video games were still being designed by human beings.

China's Alibaba Group is reporting a 34% jump in revenue from its cloud business, driven by the AI boom.

Hackers working for Russian intelligence attacked an American engineering company this fall, seemingly because that firm had worked for a U.S. municipality with a sister city in Ukraine.

President Donald Trump is directing the federal government to share scientific data and use artificial intelligence to accelerate discovery, including streamlining the nation’s electric grid.

Malaysia plans to ban social media accounts for people under 16 starting in 2026.

When Russians look back at 2025, they might remember it as the year when the government took even tighter control of the internet.

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has sold 15% of his Formula 1 team share to George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike.

Director Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17” starring several versions of Robert Pattinson and Kevin Hart debuting a new comedy special on Netflix are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

France's government is taking action against Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, after it generated posts questioning the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.

OpenAI has announced a partnership with Taiwan's Foxconn to design and make equipment for AI data centers in the U.S. Foxconn, known for making assembling iPhones and other Apple products and making servers for Nvidia, said it will co-design artificial intelligence data center racks with OpenAI under the agreement.

Warner Music Group has resolved its copyright dispute with Udio and signed a deal to collaborate on a new AI song creation service.

Spanish legacy media companies in Spain have scored a victory against social media giant Meta after a Madrid-based court ordered that it must pay news outlets nearly half a billion euros in damages.

Meta has started notifying young Australians to download their digital histories and delete their accounts from Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

The rise of ChatGPT and other AI systems has transformed education, changing how students learn and study.

Children’s and consumer advocacy groups are urging parents not to buy AI-powered toys during the holiday season.

Yann LeCun, a pioneer in artificial intelligence, has announced he will leave his role as Meta's chief AI scientist at the end of the year.

President Donald Trump is again expressing support for skilled immigrants training U.S. workers in high-tech factories.

Nvidia reported more eye-catching numbers for its fiscal third quarter Wednesday, with net income jumping 65% and revenue increasing 62% from a year earlier.

President Donald Trump is counting on the tech sector and artificial intelligence to drive his economic agenda.

Nvidia’s sales of the computing chips powering the artificial intelligence craze surged beyond the lofty bar set by stock market analysts in a performance that may ease recent jitters about a Big Tech boom turning into a bust that topples the world’s most valuable company.

The United States, Britain and Australia have announced sanctions against a Russia-based web hosting service for allegedly running ransomware operations.

The president of Cyprus says some of the estimated 20 trillion cubic feet of natural gas discovered in waters off the island nation could reach European markets as soon as 2027.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has abruptly gone on leave from teaching at Harvard University over recently released emails showing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Meta has prevailed over an existential challenge to its business that could have forced the tech giant to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp after a judge ruled that the company does not hold a monopoly in social networking.

Microsoft has announced a partnership with AI company Anthropic and chipmaker Nvidia.

For more than 15 years, San Francisco-based billionaire Cari Tuna has strived to do the most good with the money she gives away.

Artificial intelligence is being cast as both a hero and a villain at the U.N. climate talks in Brazil.

A widely used Internet infrastructure company said that it has resolved an issue that led to outages impacting users of everything from ChatGPT and the online game, “League of Legends,” to the New Jersey Transit system early Tuesday.

The European Union is considering stricter scrutiny for Amazon and Microsoft's cloud businesses.

Roblox is stepping up its age verification system for users who want to message other players and implementing age-based chats so kids, teens and adults will only be able to communicate with people around their own age.

A new report says China funneled billions in hidden loans to U.S. companies over the past quarter century, some targeting industries key to national security.

Cities and states in the U.S. are turning to AI to improve road safety.

Utilities are producing eye-popping forecasts about the amount of electricity they'll need to power massive new data centers that are feeding the fast-growing AI economy.

Disney and YouTube TV reached a new deal to bring channels like ABC and ESPN back to the Google-owned live streaming platform Friday, ending a blackout for customers that dragged on for nearly six weeks.

Ted Danson’s “A Man on the Inside” returning to Netflix for its second season and Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo belting out the “Wicked: For Good” soundtrack are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

Researchers at an artificial intelligence firm say they've found the first reported case of foreign hackers using AI to automate portions of cyberattacks.

Three Chinese astronauts have returned from their nation's space station after a nine-day delay.

Months after a judge said Luigi Mangione could have a laptop in jail to review evidence, lawyers for the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson say the device has yet to be delivered.

AT&T has reached a combined $177 million settlement over two data breaches.

Cash App has introduced Moneybot, a new financial services chatbot that will be integrated into its banking app this winter.

Disney’s fiscal fourth-quarter performance was mixed, as a weak performance from its television networks and some films was buffered by strength in its streaming business and theme parks.

Waymo is hitting the highway.

The White House's list of 37 donors to President Donald Trump's $300 million ballroom project includes crypto billionaires, powerful financiers, tobacco companies, tech giants, media companies, longtime Republican donors and several of the president’s neighbors in Florida.

Oscar-winning actors Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey have partnered with voice-cloning company ElevenLabs.

Finding the perfect tech gifts can be tricky, but The AP has put together a quick guide to help.

Anthropic has announced a $50 billion investment in computing infrastructure, including new data centers in Texas and New York.

Drone warfare exploded following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Apple says it has pulled two popular gay dating apps in China following an order from Chinese authorities in the latest evidence of their tightening grip on the LGBTQ+ community.

Tech advocacy group Public Citizen has demanded OpenAI withdraw Sora 2, citing safety concerns and threats to democracy from the AI video generator.

The return of three stranded Chinese astronauts who are facing a delayed return to Earth is progressing smoothly, according to the country's Manned Space Engineering office.

Japanese technology giant SoftBank says it has sold its stake in Nvidia, raising $5.8 billion to pour into other investments.

China has a new visa scheme that is creating job opportunities for foreign professionals, part of its effort to attract global talent and gain an edge in global technology.

Voter anger over rising electricity costs is shaping next year's midterm elections.

A South Korean solar company says it will temporarily reduce pay and working hours for about 1,000 of its 3,000 employees in Georgia because U.S. customs officials have been detaining imported components for solar panels.

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan re-teaming as the body-swapping mother and daughter duo in “Freakier Friday” and albums from 5 Seconds of Summer and the rapper NF are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.

The Congressional Budget Office confirmed Thursday that it had been hacked.

Dramatic videos captured the tragic final moments of a UPS cargo plane crash near Louisville's airport.

The world’s richest man was just handed a chance to become history’s first trillionaire.

The first contemporary Agatha Christie English-speaking TV series is being shot in the U.K. Over a hundred years since they first appeared in a Christie novel, Tommy and Tuppence have been modernized.

For the past decade, Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg have focused part of their philanthropy on a lofty goal — “to cure, prevent or manage all disease” — if not in their lifetime, then in their children’s.

Poland and Romania are deploying a new weapons system to defend against Russian drones.

Deepfakes have become not only easier to make worldwide but also look or sound exponentially more realistic thanks to technological advances and the proliferation of generative artificial intelligence tools.

India is repatriating the first batch of hundreds of its nationals who last month fled to Thailand from Myanmar, where most had been working at a notorious center for online scams.

A Norwegian public transport operator plans to tighten security after tests on Chinese-made electric buses revealed the manufacturer could remotely turn them off.

Epic Games has reached a settlement with Google, potentially ending its five-year legal battle over Google's Play Store for Android apps.

A group of U.S. data scientists has published a list of federal datasets that have been altered or removed since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

Google Maps is heading in a new direction with artificial intelligence sitting in the co-pilot’s seat.

Australia has added Reddit and Kick to its list of social media platforms that must ban children under 16 from having accounts.

The European Union says it has reached an agreement with China to stabilize the flow of rare earth materials crucial for high-tech and military products.

Stability AI has mostly prevailed against Getty Images in a British court battle over intellectual property.

Japanese video-game maker Nintendo's net profit jumped 85% in April-September from the previous year, as its sales more than doubled following the launch of its hit Switch 2 console in June.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called for tripling government spending artificial intelligence infrastructure and technology in a budget speech to the legislature.

Britain's antitrust watchdog is intensifying its investigation into Getty Images' plan to buy Shutterstock.

Microsoft has announced it will ship Nvidia's advanced AI chips to the United Arab Emirates.