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AI's future could be 'open-source' or closed. Tech giants are divided as they lobby regulators 12/05/2023 09:56am • Tech leaders have been vocal proponents of the need to regulate artificial intelligence, but they’re also lobbying hard to make sure the new rules work in their favor. That's not to say they all want the same thing. Facebook parent Meta and IBM on Tuesday launched a new group called the AI Allianc AI in Education: 5 Stocks With Growth Potential 12/04/2023 07:00pm • Artificial intelligence has changed many industries and expanded business and communication capabilities. Large language model-powered tools like ChatGPT grabbed the international spotlight for their ability to easily process queries and produce lengthy paragraphs on a variety of topics. While ChatG Canada's public broadcaster to cut 600 jobs as it struggles with budget pressures 12/04/2023 06:03pm • TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s public broadcaster announced on Wednesday that it will cut 600 jobs and reduce its English and French programming budgets as it struggles with monetary pressures. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and Radio-Canada, the French-language version, said the bulk of the layoffs Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs this year 12/04/2023 06:15am • LONDON (AP) — Spotify says it's axing 17% of its global workforce, the music streaming service's third round of layoffs this year as it moves to slash costs while focusing on becoming profitable. In a message to employees posted on the company's blog Monday, CEO Daniel Ek said the jobs were bei Florida's Republican chair has denied a woman's rape allegation in a case roiling state politics 12/02/2023 07:30pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The head of the Florida Republican Party, whose wife is a founder of one of the nation’s most prominent conservative groups, has been accused of rape, leading Gov. Ron DeSantis to call for his resignation, roiling the state's conservative politics and creating accusa Prince George's Co. man fatally shot in car 12/02/2023 12:44pm • Police in Prince George's County, Maryland, are looking for a suspect in a shooting that left a Temple Hills man dead. Police say on Thursday, police were called to the scene of a shooting in the 6000 block of Oxon Hill Road. When they arrived, police found a man in a vehicle suffering from a Online shopping scams to avoid this holiday season 12/01/2023 06:56pm • Nearly 85% of consumers are worried about running into artificial intelligence-based fraud this holiday shopping season, according to the Prove Identity 2023 Online Shopping & AI-Based Fraud Report. And that's with good reason. AI-technology means the days of phishing emails filled with broke Is AI Investing a Winner-Take-All Game? 4 Stocks Competing for the Pie 11/30/2023 07:00pm • One of the best-performing investment themes of 2023 has been artificial intelligence. From AI chatbots and search features to AI enterprise optimization software to generative AI applications that can create digital art, literature, movies and other media, the world seems to have AI fever. Wall Str 10 Best-Performing ETFs of 2023 11/30/2023 07:00pm • When it comes to the best-performing exchange-traded funds of 2023, the theme they all share is obvious: a focus on technology. While the S&P 500 has had a pretty good year, with roughly 18% returns through Nov. 30, the tech-heavy Nasdaq has performed about twice as well in 2023. The best-perfor Thousands of fake Facebook accounts shut down by Meta were primed to polarize voters ahead of 2024 11/30/2023 09:09am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Someone in China created thousands of fake social media accounts designed to appear to be from Americans and used them to spread polarizing political content in an apparent effort to divide the U.S. ahead of next year's elections, Meta said Thursday. The network of nearly 4,800 f Canada says Google will pay $74 million annually to Canadian news industry under new online law 11/29/2023 03:05pm • TORONTO (AP) — Canada's government said Wednesday it reached a deal with Google for the company to contribute $100 million Canadian dollars annually to the country's news industry to comply with a new Canadian law requiring tech companies to pay publishers for their content. The agreement removes Michigan to join state-level effort to regulate AI political ads as federal legislation is pending 11/29/2023 10:15am • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan is joining an effort to curb deceptive uses of artificial intelligence and manipulated media through state-level policies as Congress and the Federal Elections Commission continue to debate more sweeping regulations ahead of the 2024 elections. Campaigns on the state Amazon launches Q, a business chatbot powered by generative artificial intelligence 11/28/2023 05:04pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon finally has its answer to ChatGPT. The tech giant said Tuesday it will launch Q — a business chatbot powered by generative artificial intelligence. The announcement, made in Las Vegas at an annual conference the company hosts for its AWS cloud computing service, represent Former Google executive ends longshot bid for Dianne Feinstein's US Senate seat in California 11/28/2023 03:40pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former California tech executive is ending her longshot campaign for the U.S. Senate seat once held by the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, she announced Tuesday. Democrat Lexi Reese said in a statement that she has been unable to raise the many millions of dollars neede New Google geothermal electricity project could be a milestone for clean energy 11/28/2023 01:20pm • An advanced geothermal project has begun pumping carbon-free electricity onto the Nevada grid to power Google data centers there, Google announced Tuesday. Getting electrons onto the grid for the first time is a milestone many new energy companies never reach, said Tim Latimer, CEO and co-founder o