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  • Art teacher Joyce Hatzidakis uses the AI tool Google Gemini in her high school classroom Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026, Riverside, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AI

    Meet a 70-year-old Home Depot store associate who uses AI on his phone about once an hour: ‘I think my job would suffer if I couldn’t’

    By Matt O'Brien, Linley Sanders, and others
  • Smoke rises from Fort Tiuna, the main military garrison in Caracas, Venezuela, after multiple explosions were heard and aircraft swept through the area, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)Politics

    Airlines cancel hundreds of flights across the eastern Caribbean after U.S. raid on Venezuela

    By Matt O'Brien, Josh Funk, and others
  • A man records a humanoid robot inside the exhibition room at the Humanoids Summit, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)Innovation

    Silicon Valley summit offers rare insight into humanoid robots—and China is the clear winner

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • A Providence police car passes by Brown University’s Van Wickle gates, in Providence, R.I., two days after a shooting took place on Brown University’s campus, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (Lily Speredelozzi/The Sun Chronicle via AP)Law

    How the ‘Reddit Detective Agency’ and surveillance technology helped find the suspect in the deadly Brown University shooting

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • A man records a humanoid robot inside the exhibition room at the Humanoids Summit, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)Innovation

    Even in Silicon Valley, skepticism looms over robots, while ‘China has certainly a lot more momentum on humanoids’

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • robotsInnovation

    ‘The question is really just how long it will take’: Over 2,000 gather at Humanoids Summit to meet the robots who may take their jobs someday

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • OpenAILaw

    OpenAI, Microsoft face wrongful death lawsuit over ‘paranoid delusions’ that led former tech worker into murder-suicide

    By Dave Collins, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • CEO Dario Amodei's Anthropic announced a new $50 billion investment on Wednesday as AI companies build out data center infrastructure.AI

    Anthropic says new $50B investment in data centers will create about 800 permanent jobs and 2,400 construction jobs

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • OpenAIAI

    OpenAI accused of ‘consistent and dangerous pattern’ rushing product to market that is ‘inherently unsafe or lacking in needed guardrails’

    By Barbara Ortutay, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • Carnegie Mellon University Head of Machine Learning, Zico Kolter delivers a keynote speech at AI Horizons Summit in Bakery Square on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025 in Pittsburgh. (Sebastian Foltz/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)AI

    The professor leading OpenAI’s safety panel may have one of the most important roles in the tech industry right now

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Harry, MeghanAI

    Prince Harry, Meghan Markle join with Steve Bannon and Steve Wozniak in calling for ban on AI ‘superintelligence’ before it destroys the world

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Amazon Web ServicesBig Tech

    ‘The reality is it’s all very concentrated’: AWS outage exposes the world’s internet chokepoint, one data-center cluster in Virginia

    By Safiyah Riddle, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • Sam AltmanAI

    Dating chatbot expert: ChatGPT subscriptions aren’t ‘really earning much so having erotic content will bring them quick money’

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • MicrosoftBig Tech

    Microsoft brings you Windows 11, now including AI updates where you talk to your laptop all day

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • ICELaw

    ICEBlock creator devastated by Google, Apple decision to remove app after pressure from ‘authoritarian regime’

    By Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Matt O'Brien, and others