Artificial intelligence

Duolingo's decision to replace contractors with AI has sparked a wave of user outrage and public pledges to quit the app.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to social media to indicate that the money lost by his company when users are polite to ChatGPT is money "well spent".

A man credits ChatGPT with saving his life after the AI told him to go to the hospital immediately—advice that may have prevented him from losing an organ.

After being suspended from Columbia for using an AI cheating tool, a 21-year-old turned the controversy into a $5.3 million-funded startup.

A new AI service that chats with elderly family members on your behalf is raising questions about convenience and connection.

Sony Music said recently it has already demanded that 75,000 deepfakes -- simulated images, tunes or videos that can easily be mistaken for real -- be rooted out, a figure reflecting the magnitude of the issue.

Elon Musk has announced that his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, has acquired X in an all-stock deal valuing the social media platform at $33 billion.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, has named its own creator as a "Top Misinformation Spreader," despite alleged attempts to censor it.

Spooked by generative AI's sudden advance, governments initially scrambled to develop guardrails, as major tech companies rapidly integrated the technology into their products.

Google's AI model has drawn criticism for its ability to remove watermarks from copyrighted images, leading to concerns about copyright infringement.

A developer using Cursor AI encountered an unexpected refusal from the assistant, which advised him to "develop the logic yourself."

Since late 2022, just a handful of AI assistants -- such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini -- have reigned supreme, becoming ever more capable thanks to multi-billion-dollar investments in engineers, data centers, and high-performance AI chips.

An AI-generated parody video portraying Trump as Putin's subservient "puppet" in war-torn Ukraine has gone viral on X.

DeepSeek was met with much resistance when it first landed into the global tech space, weeks since the Chinese AI chatbot's launch, some experts in the blockchain industry are seeing the AI model in a different light.

Colombian AI expert explains in an interview with The Latin Times the power of Hispanics in the AI revolution.

A hacked HUD display inside a federal agency building played an AI-generated video of Donald Trump kissing Elon Musk's feet.

Investors have piled into Chinese technology stocks since the start of the year, with Alibaba -- which runs some of the country's biggest online shopping platforms -- seeing its shares soar to three-year highs.

The foundation of a successful solo venture is identifying a problem and then deploying the appropriate AI tools to solve it.

Governments from Rome to Seoul are cracking down on the user-friendly Chinese app, saying they need to prevent potential leaks of sensitive information through generative AI services.

Up to 30% of fashion items bought on the internet are sent back, according to a late 2024 study by consulting firm McKinsey and the Business of Fashion website -- not least because "clients are buying several sizes or styles and returning most of them".

A viral YouTube channel that claimed to document shocking true crime cases was actually fabricating invented stories using artificial intelligence.

Baidu also announced that it will launch an advanced search feature, which will be available for free starting April 1. The company said this feature will have better reasoning abilities and tool integration, allowing it to provide more expert-level responses.

Facing a severe teacher shortage, a Louisiana school district turned to AI to fill the gap in classrooms, and so far, teachers are appreciative of the help.

Musk and Altman were among the 11-person team that founded OpenAI in 2015. Created as a counterweight to Google's dominance in artificial intelligence, the project got its initial funding from Musk, who invested $45 million to get it started.

Governor Kathy Hochul orders ban, citing national security concerns.

Hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the gathering comes hours after Elon Musk reportedly put in a bid for star developer OpenAI, underscoring AI's potential to gather power into a single pair of hands.

Political and tech industry leaders were set to descend on Paris Monday for a two-day summit on artificial intelligence, hoping to find common ground on a technology with the potential to upset global business and society.

University students sue the Education Department, alleging it unlawfully gave DOGE access to sensitive financial aid data in violation of federal privacy laws.

The mounting expenses of data-intensive artificial intelligence and its infrastructure have cast a shadow over this earnings season, with only Facebook owner Meta winning Wall Street's approval.

Revised AI principles were posted just weeks after Google chief executive Sundar Pichai and other tech titans attended the inauguration of US President Donald Trump.