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Meta got hit this week with its biggest fine yet, the latest in a mounting pile of court-ordered payments.

MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots.

Apple’s original music player got many things right. Chief among them: It didn’t connect to the internet.

For years these billionaires gushed obsessively about AI. But they meekly went along when Trump cancelled the term.

Some say that tech was always about the money and the military. Don’t buy that argument.

Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing.

The Trump administration says it wants AI models free from ideological bias, as it pressures their developers to reflect the president’s worldview.

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

While philosophers ponder AI consciousness, the models have ideas of their own.

A recent paper argues that AI is often better at doctoring than doctors. Guess who isn’t thrilled.