Seeing fans with their phones out during a tennis match would’ve been a strange sight even a decade ago. But at the U.S. Open this year, the digital world has become intertwined with the game as live AI insights reshape the tournament experience. On Tuesday night, when Coco Gauff faced off against Zeynep Sönmez of…
A trade group representing American automakers is urging Congress to permanently bar the sale of Chinese vehicles in the U.S. In a letter to senior lawmakers, the Alliance for Automotive Innovation on Thursday called on them to “enact a permanent ban on the sale, import and manufacture of Chinese connected vehicles, hardware and software” in…
Washington — As legal battles over the U.S. Postal Service’s new regulations for mail ballots move forward, state and local election officials are raising concerns about the logistical hurdles they will have to surmount to implement the requirements just weeks before the November elections. Mail ballots will go out to voters in several states in…
Earlier this year, a super PAC supporting Texas Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton received four checks totaling over $1 million from an organization called Preserve Texas, Inc. Preserve Texas is not registered as a political committee and has not filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission that could reveal where the money came from. Instead,…
America’s aging population and the rising incidence of chronic health conditions such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes are projected to create millions of healthcare and social assistance jobs over the next decade, according to new government labor data. Employment in the sector is projected to grow 9.5%, adding 2.2 million jobs, from 2025 to…
Leading developers of the most powerful artificial intelligence tools are warning that their technology may soon be used to carry out sophisticated cyberattacks against companies and institutions, ranging from hospitals to technology firms. In an open letter published Thursday, the leaders of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and dozens of other signatories said there is a…
Bill Gates is sounding the alarm about artificial intelligence, warning in a new essay that the technology will rapidly transform the U.S. labor market and put millions of jobs at risk. AI is changing the economy much faster than previous technological revolutions, advancing at what the Microsoft co-founder called a “mind-blowing rate” and leaving less…
The Department of Justice said on Friday that TikTok and China’s ByteDance have agreed to pay $400 million to settle claims that the social media platform violated U.S. children’s online privacy laws. The agency sued TikTok in 2024, alleging that it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act by collecting and retaining data from its…
A woman discovered she had been secretly filmed by a man wearing Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses when friends and people she hadn’t talked to in years sent her a video posted on social media. “It went viral. Across all platforms, probably over 200,000 views,” Toluwa Omitowoju said. It’s a growing trend with content creators increasingly…
A sweet back-to-school photo can be more vulnerable to manipulation in the age of artificial intelligence, with bad actors getting their hands on AI-enabled apps that let them take an innocent photo and sexualize it — all that’s required is a photo of someone even fully clothed. So-called “nudify apps” use AI-generated software to turn…
