Separate lawsuits were filed by Google, Meta and TikTok, which have been battling a flood of claims that their services are addictive.
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A new California law says features like personalized recommendations can be โpsychologically exploitativeโ for minors and cause them to check social media compulsively.
A student made plans to end her life after chatting with Googleโs artificial intelligence, a new lawsuit claims, amid mounting concerns about online harms to children.
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The new lawsuit argues that Googleโs โsprawling digital ecosystemโ of school laptops and apps has helped the tech giant push its A.I. into classrooms.
Google is making it easier to restrict its A.I. tools for students. But schools that block A.I. entirely will lose student access to Googleโs search engine.
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Google products are ubiquitous in American schools.
The company has been spending relentlessly to build A.I. and said it would increase those investments next year. Profit dropped because of changes to the value of its investments.
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A Google data center next to the Columbia River in The Dalles, Ore. โWeโre excited by the range of big opportunities ahead of us,โ said Alphabetโs chief executive, Sundar Pichai.
The midterms are the first elections in which artificial intelligence is integrated into every major social media platform. Efforts to blunt its harms are uneven.
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One in five voters plan to use A.I. to look into a race on their ballot, according a survey released this month by the American Association of Political Consultants.
A series of lawsuits has created a new de facto regulatory regime as courts order companies like Meta and Google to change their business practices โ and pay up.
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Metaโs chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg. On Wednesday, a New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay a record $25 billion penalty for abusing consumer privacy.
Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Metaโs chief executive, questioning the companyโs $6.6 billion in tax breaks.
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Meta has claimed to the Internal Revenue Service that the data centers it is building across the country to power its new generative A.I. efforts are โexperimental.โ
For more than a year, The New York Times followed recipients of universal basic income programs, which Elon Musk and other tech leaders have promoted as a solution to A.I.-fueled job losses.
Nearly 100 patients discussed their maladies with a Google bot, called AMIE, before meeting with physicians.
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After scheduling a visit with the hospitalโs urgent care facility, the patients discussed their ailments with a Google chatbot before meeting with their doctors.
It takes a long time to build new nuclear plants. So, some U.S. companies are looking to get more electricity out of reactors that already exist.
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Constellation Energy, the nationโs largest nuclear power plant operator, said it would spend more than $4.3 billion to refurbish 11 reactors at six plants in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
100 Zeros, a collaboration between Google and Range Media Partners, aims to give the tech giant a foothold in movies, TV and emerging forms of entertainment.
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Jonathan Zepp, left, Googleโs head of entertainment content and platforms, and Peter Micelli, chief executive of Range Media Partners, at Google offices in Los Angeles.
For safety reasons, Gemini 4 Argon will initially be available only to some companies and organizations focused on cybersecurity defense before it is more widely released, Google said.
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The Gemini 4 model is available for now only to a select group of companies and organizations focused on cybersecurity defense,
President Trumpโs meetings with tech leaders produced some voluntary safeguards and a commitment to rebrand artificial intelligence as โsuper intelligence,โ the term that Mr. Trump prefers.
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President Trump unveiled an A.I.-powered government website at the White House on Tuesday,
Metaโs smart glasses are the latest in a line of products to raise eyebrows over privacy. Thatโs not stopping other companies from creating similar devices.
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Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated the latest of Metaโs smart glasses on Wednesday.
Next Thursday, Google is sending an experimental satellite into orbit that will have enough computing power to answer simple A.I. queries from space.
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A technician in a clean room at the Planet Labs office inspects the solar panels and wires of a Google-commissioned satellite before a vibration test meant to mimic the shaking it will undergo during launch.
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