A Japanese research vessel has successfully drilled and retrieved deep-sea sediment containing rare earth minerals from the seabed near a remote island, Japan’s government announced Monday as the country seeks to reduce its reliance on China.

Indonesia has allowed Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok to resume operations on a conditional basis and under strict supervision, after banning it for explicit sexual content.

When Amazon announced it was cutting 16,000 corporate jobs, many assumed it was the latest phase of CEO Andy Jassy’s push to reduce the corporate workforce as AI brings more efficiency gains.

The first stand-alone trial from state prosecutors in a stream of lawsuits against Meta is getting underway in New Mexico.

About 50 members of a community outside Chile’s capital spent Saturday trying their best to power an entirely human-operated chatbot that could answer questions and make silly pictures on command, in a message to highlight the environmental toll and water usage of artificial intelligence data centers in the region.

The goofy and wry relationship comedy “Splitsville” landing on Hulu and fresh albums by J.

President Donald Trump is facing a growing cultural revolt against his immigration crackdown.

Meta’s fourth-quarter results jumped past Wall Street’s expectations thanks to solid advertising revenue, sending shares higher in after-hours trading Wednesday.

Microsoft reports revenue of $81.3 billion for the October-December quarter, marking a 17% increase from the previous year.

Google is empowering its Chrome browser with the ability to alter pictures and introducing a side panel for a virtual assistant to help with online tasks as part of its push to turbocharge its of digital services with more artificial intelligence technology.

As layoffs pile up, workers are feeling increasingly anxious about the job market.

France's finance minister is urging Capgemini to clarify its contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The Spanish league says it is stepping up its fight against audio-visual fraud by offering 50 euros for each verified tip on the establishments broadcasting games without proper permission.

Britain's competition watchdog says Google should let news sites and content creators opt out of having their content scraped for AI overviews.

Amazon is cutting about 16,000 jobs in the latest round of tech industry layoffs.

ASML reports a record net profit of 9.6 billion euros in 2025, driven by AI demand.

A NASA research plane has landed without its landing gear in Texas, sending plumes of flame behind it.

Pinterest plans to lay off under 15% of its workforce, as part of broader restructuring that arrives as the image-sharing platform pivots more of its money to artificial intelligence.

Amazon said it’s closing all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh locations, as the online behemoth focuses on its Whole Foods Market stores and grocery delivery.

Neil Young is offering free access to his entire music catalog to residents of Greenland.

A new humanoid robot named Sprout, developed by Fauna Robotics, is making its debut.

The European Union is stepping in to ensure Google gives rival AI companies and search engines access to data and Gemini AI services.

French lawmakers have approved a bill banning social media for children under 15.

TikTok has agreed to settle in a landmark social media addiction lawsuit just before the trial kicked off, the plaintiff’s attorneys confirmed.

The U.S. is taking a minority stake in an Oklahoma rare earth miner, the latest government investment in the sector as it seeks to minimize its reliance on imports of a material used prevalently in smartphones, robotics, electric vehicles and many other high tech products.

European Union regulators have opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X after its AI chatbot Grok started producing nonconsensual sexualized deepfake images.

Egypt is exploring ways to regulate children's use of social media.

Millions of people rely on wearable devices to monitor how well they're sleeping.

A new Gallup poll finds that American workers have adopted artificial intelligence into their work lives at a remarkable pace over the past few years.

French President Emmanuel Macron says he wants to fast-track a ban on social media for teenagers under 15.

Toyota announced Friday it would recall about 162,000 pickup trucks in the United States after it was discovered that the vehicles’ multimedia displays could compromise driver safety.

Meta is halting teens’ access to artificial intelligence characters, at least temporarily, the company said in a blog post Friday.

TikTok has at last finalized a deal to keep the popular video sharing platform operating in the U.S. after years of uncertainty.

Kendrick Lamar and Bad Bunny live at the Grammy Awards and Rose Byrne’s Oscar-nominated performance in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

That snowflake icon on your smartphone app might be quick and handy — it just might not be as accurate as a human when the weather gets rough.

TikTok has finalized a deal to create a new American entity, avoiding the looming threat of a ban in the U.S. that has been in discussion for years.

Clothing retailer Under Armour is investigating a recent data breach that purloined customers' email addresses and other personal information, but so far there are no signs the hackers stole any passwords or financial information.

Elizabeth Hurley has accused the Daily Mail's publisher of tapping her phones and stealing her medical records.

Rwanda will test technology powered by artificial intelligence in more than 50 health clinics as part of a new initiative by the Gates Foundation to support 1,000 clinics across Africa with the aim to improve health care services.

Google is leveraging its artificial intelligence technology to open a new peephole for its dominant search engine to tailor answers that draw upon people’s interests, habits, travel itineraries and photo libraries.

Skydance-owned Paramount is again extending the tender offer window in its $77.9 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros.

Alex Honnold plans to climb Taipei 101 in his signature free solo style without ropes or protective gear.

Netflix capped last year with another solid financial performance despite slowing subscriber growth that underscored the importance of its contested $72 billion bid to take over Warner Bros.

The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it will appeal the November ruling in favor of Meta in its antitrust case against the social media giant.

The European Union plans to phase out telecom gear from companies in "high risk" countries, targeting Chinese firms like Huawei and ZTE.

The British government is considering banning young teenagers from social media to protect them from harmful content and excessive screen time.

The New York Stock Exchange is working on a digital platform that would enable investors to trade digital tokens around the clock.

The mother of one of Elon Musk's children is suing his AI company over deepfake images of her on the internet.

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide the constitutionality of broad search warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users to find people near crime scenes.

YouTube is updating its guidelines for videos containing what advertisers define as controversial content, like abortion and self-harm, allowing more creators to earn full ad revenue when they tackle sensitive issues in a nongraphic way.

OpenAI plans to introduce ads for ChatGPT users who aren't paying for the premium version.

Dwayne Johnson transforming into MMA pioneer Mark Kerr for “The Smashing Machine” and Louis Tomlinson releasing his third solo album are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

A woman in Canada has become a global symbol of defiance against Iran's regime.

The White House and a bipartisan group of governors are taking aim at power shortages and price spikes from data centers for artificial intelligence.

Social media companies have revoked access to about 4.7 million accounts identified as belonging to children in Australia.

Elon Musk's AI assistant, Grok, is facing scrutiny from governments worldwide.

Online ads that appeared before the holidays linked to a website featuring a photo of a woman hand-knitting a Christmas sweater.

Climate change is driving a global boom in desalination as regions turn to the sea for drinking water.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has proposed creating a new agency with $2.5 billion to boost production of rare earths and the other critical minerals.

An ailing astronaut is back on Earth.

The U.S. and Taiwan have signed a trade deal involving $250 billion in new investments by Taiwan's semiconductor and tech companies in the U.S. In exchange, the Trump administration will cut tariffs on Taiwanese goods.

In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or stunningly direct.

Elon Musk’s X says its AI chatbot Grok won't be able to edit photos of real people in revealing clothing in places where that is illegal.

An astronaut in need of medical care is on the way back to Earth.

Verizon says it resolved an outage that disrupted many U.S. customers’ calling and other cellular services for more than 10 hours on Wednesday.

A widespread outage appears to be affecting thousands of Verizon customers on Wednesday, according to the website Downdetector.

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.

Lawyers for Nexperia and its Chinese owners have faced off in an Amsterdam courtroom over alleged corporate mismanagement.

The Trump administration placed new security requirements on Nividia’s semiconductor sales to China, but essentially greenlighted the export of its powerful H200 artificial intelligence chips to Chinese buyers.

The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025.

SpaceX's Starlink has dropped fees to help Iranian demonstrators share protest details globally, activists say.

A proposal to tax the accumulated wealth of California billionaires has ignited a political uproar in Silicon Valley and across the state.

Microsoft is trying to win over communities concerned about AI data centers.

Malaysian authorities have announced legal action against Elon Musk's social media platform X and its AI unit xAI.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s AI engine inside the Pentagon network.

Google parent Alphabet Inc. on Monday became the fourth Big Tech powerhouse to be valued at $4 trillion, a once seemingly unfathomable milestone that’s become more like a rite of passage amid an artificial intelligence arms race.

A top aide to Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides has resigned after an online video was posted recently in which it was suggested that he and others were using their close ties to the leader to earn favors for would-be investors in exchange for cash.

Apple will lean on Google to help finish its bungled attempts to smarten up its virtual assistant Siri and bring other artificial intelligence features to the iPhone as the trendsetting company plays catch up in technology’s latest craze.

Facebook owner Meta has named Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump administration adviser and longtime finance executive, as president and vice chairman of the tech giant.

Paramount Skydance is taking another step in its hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros.

Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok as concerns grow over its misuse in generating explicit images.

Five years after video of George Floyd's killing on a Minneapolis street, video of another law enforcement action in the northern city is central to another American debate.

Google is expanding the shopping features in its AI chatbot by teaming up with Walmart, Shopify, Wayfair and other big retailers to turn the Gemini app into a virtual merchant as well as an assistant.

Iran has disconnected its internet and phone lines to cut off its 85 million people from the rest of the world.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up an appeal from tech giant Cisco seeking to shut down a lawsuit claiming that the company’s technology was used to persecute members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China.

Lyft and Uber drivers protested Waymo's self-driving taxis in San Francisco.

A$AP Rocky's first full-length album in eight years, “Don’t Be Dumb,” and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reuniting in Netflix’s “The Rip” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

Facebook parent Meta has reached nuclear power deals with three companies as it continues to look for electricity sources for its artificial intelligence data centers.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is now restricting image generation and editing to paying users.

CES 2026 showcased futuristic tech, from paper-thin screens to AI-driven gadgets.

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, plans to spend $20 billion on a data center in Southaven, Mississippi.

A new safety feature is now in effect for Roblox users. Players are required to undergo age verification if they want to chat with other users.

Artificial intelligence took center stage at this year's CES gadget show, but not always for the right reasons.

DeepSeek, a Chinese tech startup, is gaining traction in developing nations, narrowing the AI adoption gap with advanced economies.

The Apple Card, known for its intuitive features and other perks for consumers, will now be issued by JPMorgan but Apple says nothing will change for users.

More artificial intelligence is being implanted into Gmail as Google tries to turn the world’s most used email service into a personal assistant that can improve writing, summarize far-flung information buried in inboxes and deliver daily to-do lists.

As a shooting unfolded at Brown University on Dec. 13, students turned to the anonymous app Sidechat to document fear, confusion and grief in real time — often before receiving official alerts.

Prosecutors in the United States say Chen Zhi boasted of pulling in $30 million a day.

China's commerce ministry says it plans to investigate Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus.

Google and Character Technologies have agreed to settle a lawsuit from a Florida mother who claimed a chatbot pushed her son to kill himself.