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The Latest: Project 2025's director steps down and Trump says Harris 'doesn't like Jewish people' 07/30/2024 09:18pm • Republican Donald Trump���s campaign has announced that he will travel to Atlanta on Saturday for a rally in the same venue where Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris plans one Tuesday night featuring a performance by hip hop star Megan Thee Stallion. Dueling ad campaigns by the presidential cand FACT FOCUS: Google autocomplete results around Trump lead to claims of election interference 07/30/2024 05:57pm • With fewer than 100 days until the 2024 election, social media users are claiming that a lack of Google autocomplete results about former President Donald Trump and his attempted assassination is evidence of election interference. Many posts include screenshots showing what the autocomplete feature, Senate passes bill to protect kids online and make tech companies accountable for harmful content 07/30/2024 04:34pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation Tuesday that is designed to protect children from dangerous online content, pushing forward with what would be the first major effort by Congress in decades to hold tech companies more accountable for the harm that they cause. The bill Meta agrees to $1.4B settlement with Texas in privacy lawsuit over facial recognition 07/30/2024 03:46pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� Meta has agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas in a privacy lawsuit over allegations that the tech giant used biometric data of users without their permission, officials said Tuesday. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the settlement is the largest secured by a si Google's partnership with AI startup Anthropic faces scrutiny from UK competition watchdog 07/30/2024 09:41am • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain's competition watchdog said Tuesday it's looking into Google's partnership with artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, adding fresh regulatory scrutiny to investment money flooding into the AI industry. The Competition and Markets Authority said it's seeking comments as How Harris and Trump differ on artificial intelligence policy 07/30/2024 12:01am • Two days after President Joe Biden signed a sweeping executive order on artificial intelligence last year, Vice President Kamala Harris brought the wonky document to a global AI summit, telling an international audience what set the U.S. apart in its approach to AI safety. In an event meant to addre Trump agrees to be interviewed as part of an investigation into his assassination attempt, FBI says 07/29/2024 07:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Former President Donald Trump has agreed to be interviewed by the FBI as part of an investigation into his attempted assassination in Pennsylvania earlier this month, a special agent said on Monday in disclosing how the gunman prior to the shooting had researched mass attacks and 7 Steve Cohen Stocks That Made Point72 a Top Hedge Fund 07/28/2024 08:00pm • The Point72 Asset Management hedge fund, based in Stamford, Connecticut, had amassed $41.3 billion in managed 13F securities as of its latest filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. At the helm of this successful fund is Steve Cohen, the founder of hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors Technology's grip on modern life is pushing us down a dimly lit path of digital land mines 07/27/2024 09:53pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� ���Move fast and break things,��� a high-tech mantra popularized 20 years ago by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was supposed to be a rallying cry for game-changing innovation. It now seems more like an elegy for a society perched on a digital foundation too fragile to withs 10 Best-Performing ETFs of 2024 07/25/2024 08:00pm • The stock market tacked on 26% across all of last year, and as the S&P 500 has tacked on 13.2% from January through late July, it appears Wall Street could rival those gains again in 2024. Thanks to this sustained optimism, "risk-on" stocks have been at the top of the heap in the current bull ma OpenAI tests ChatGPT-powered search engine that could compete with Google 07/25/2024 04:28pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� OpenAI is testing a ChatGPT-powered search engine that could put the artificial intelligence company in direct competition with search giant Google and affect the flow of internet traffic seeking news and other timely information. San Francisco-based OpenAI said Thursday it i One Tech Tip: To hide your internet activity or your IP address, use a virtual private network 07/25/2024 04:00am • LONDON (AP) ��� On the move and looking for an internet connection to check email or post a video to TikTok? It's tempting to jump onto the free Wi-Fi at the coffee shop or the shopping mall. But don't do it unless you've got protection. Using unsecured internet access can be risky. Hackers can secr Stock market today: Asian shares dive after a wipeout on Wall Street as Big Tech skids 07/25/2024 02:18am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Asian shares dropped in Thursday morning trading, with Tokyo's benchmark losing more than 1,000 points at one point and closing down more than 3%, as pessimism set in over a nose-dive on Wall Street. U.S. stock indexes suffered their worst losses since 2022 after profit reports from Highest-Paid CEOs: Do Stock Returns Justify Ballooning Pay? 07/24/2024 08:00pm • Executive pay has become a hot topic thanks in part to the widening pay gap between CEOs and average workers. The world's highest-paid CEOs would argue that their leadership skills help generate big returns for investors, justifying their large paychecks, but critics of swelling CEO compensation pac Trump rally gunman looked online for information about Kennedy assassination, FBI director says 07/24/2024 05:51pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The gunman in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is believed to have done a Google search one week before the shooting of ���How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?��� FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday, revealing new details about a suspect he s