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YouTube prankster testifies about video that got him shot at Dulles Town Center 05/04/2023 07:15am • LEESBURG, Va., (AP) ��� Tanner Cook's prank videos were known to security guards at Dulles Town Center, a mall in northern Virginia where Cook sometimes found his unsuspecting targets. And the content creator was known to law enforcement. The sheriff's deputy who found Cook shot and bleeding outs Artificial intelligence market faces review from UK watchdog 05/04/2023 06:44am • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain���s competition watchdog said Thursday that it's opening a review of the artificial intelligence market, focusing on the technology underpinning chatbots like ChatGPT. The Competition Markets Authority said it will look into the opportunities and risks of AI as well as the c Ban social media for kids? Fed-up parents in Senate say yes 05/04/2023 06:16am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Sen. Katie Britt says she hears about it constantly when she is at home in Alabama ��� at school track meets, basketball tournaments and on her regular morning walks with friends. And when she was running for the Senate last year, Britt says, ���parent after parent��� came up to Hate passwords? You're in luck - Google is sidelining them 05/03/2023 06:24pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Good news for all the password-haters out there: Google has taken a big step toward making them an afterthought by adding ���passkeys��� as a more straightforward and secure way to log into its services. Here's what you need to know: WHAT ARE PASSKEYS? Passkeys offer Scientists warn of AI dangers but don't agree on solutions 05/03/2023 04:52pm • CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) ��� Computer scientists who helped build the foundations of today���s artificial intelligence technology are warning of its dangers, but that doesn���t mean they agree on what those dangers are or how to prevent them. Humanity's survival is threatened when "smart things can ou Business Highlights: Federal Reserve, McDonald's 05/03/2023 04:52pm • ___ Fed raises key rate but hints it may pause amid bank turmoil WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Federal Reserve reinforced its fight against high inflation by raising its key interest rate by a quarter-point to the highest level in 16 years. But the Fed also signaled that it may now pause its streak of 10 Neighbors argue over sidewalks in quiet Montgomery Co. community 05/03/2023 01:50pm • The debate over whether to build sidewalks in a quiet Montgomery County, Maryland, neighborhood continues after the county has delayed constructing them. Construction on sidewalks on Greenspan Lane and Parkvale Road in the Rock Creek Manor neighborhood was scheduled to begin May 8, but residents Google to open two more data centers in Ohio 05/03/2023 01:09pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� Google plans to build two more data centers in Ohio to help power its artificial intelligence technology and other tools, the company and state officials announced Wednesday. With one data center already up and running near Columbus, the two new locations will bring Google's 4 dangers that most worry AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton 05/03/2023 12:53pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Geoffrey Hinton, an award-winning computer scientist known as the ���godfather of artificial intelligence,��� is having some serious second thoughts about the fruits of his labors. Hinton helped pioneer AI technologies critical to a new generation of highly capable chatbotssuc Apple, Google partner to combat creepy tracking tactics 05/03/2023 04:42am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Apple and Google are teaming up to thwart unwanted tracking through Bluetooth devices that were created to help people find lost keys, keep tabs on luggage or to locate other things that have a tendency to be misplaced or lost. The two companies behind the iPhone and the so California bill advances, requiring Big Tech to pay for news 05/02/2023 07:57pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� Big Tech companies such as Google and Meta might soon have to pay media outlets for posting and using their news content under a proposed California measure attempting to save local journalism. The bill, which cleared an important Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing Tue 'Godfather of AI' leaves Google to talk about potential dangers 05/02/2023 07:31pm • The man known as the "godfather of artificial intelligence" quit his job at Google so he could freely speak about the dangers of AI, the New York Times reported Monday. Geoffrey Hinton, who worked with Google and mentors AI's rising stars, started looking at artificial intelligence more than 40 y Brazil orders Google to halt campaign against speech bill 05/02/2023 06:24pm • BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) ��� Brazil���s Justice Ministry on Tuesday ordered Google to stop conducting what it called a propaganda campaign against Brazilian legislation aimed at curbing misinformation, or face about $200,000 per hour in fines. The company later Tuesday took down an article the ministry Bank stocks continue to fall following First Republic demise 05/02/2023 04:52pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Regulators have barely written the epitaph for First Republic Bank, but investors on Wall Street have already moved onto speculating which bank might be the next to fail. Bank stocks fell sharply Tuesday, led downward by smaller banks with heavy exposure to uninsured deposits and Business Highlights: Writers strike; bank stocks 05/02/2023 04:41pm • ___ Late-night TV shows go dark as writers strike for better pay NEW YORK (AP) ��� The first Hollywood strike in 15 years began Tuesday as the economic pressures of the streaming era prompted unionized TV and film writers to picket for better pay outside major studios, a work stoppage that is leadin