From how we work and learn to how we consume entertainment, artificial intelligence has become nearly inescapable in daily life. And while the technology has fueled soaring profits for companies—and promises to bring profound benefits to society—even top business leaders are doubling down on the need to intentionally preserve human connection. Billionaire Mark Cuban put…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks, alongside Sen. Ron Wyden, to press in the Capitol, Feb. 3, 2025. Kayla Bartkowski | Getty Images Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden and Richard Blumenthal called on federal agencies to scrutinize AI deals from Nvidia, Meta and Google for potential antitrust violations, in a letter shared with CNBC. The three Democrats…
Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Match Group beat Wall Street’s fourth-quarter estimates on Tuesday but issued weak guidance as it invests in new products and artificial intelligence initiatives to turn around declining user growth at Tinder. Shares popped 8% during extended trading. The stock closed 8% lower on Tuesday. Here’s…
This past week, news that AI agents were self-organizing on a social media platform called Moltbook brought forth breathless headlines about the coming robot rebellion. “A social network for AI threatens a ‘total purge’ of humanity,” cried one normally sober science website. Elon Musk declared we were witnessing “the very early stages of the singularity.”…
Spain will join the growing list of countries banning access to social media for children, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez Tuesday. The law will apply to users under 16 years of age amidst a broader push to hold social media companies accountable for hate speech, social division and illegal content. at the World Governments Summit in…
MADRID (AP) — Spain plans to ban social media access for children under 16, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Tuesday, in a move designed to shield young people from the harms of online content. The progressive Spanish leader spoke at a summit in the United Arab Emirates, where he chided the world’s biggest tech…
(Getty Images) Free speech is often celebrated in theory and resisted in practice. At its core, the First Amendment is not meant to protect speech that is popular, polite, or affirming. It exists to protect speech that challenges authority — speech that makes people uncomfortable, exposes misconduct, and forces public officials to answer questions they…
The year is 2016. Somehow it feels carefree, driven by internet culture. Everyone is wearing over-the-top makeup. At least, that’s how Maren Nævdal, 27, remembers it — and has seen it on her social feeds in recent days. For Njeri Allen, also 27, the year was defined by the artists topping the charts that year,…
It’s a tale of two different megacaps so far this earnings season when it comes to artificial intelligence. Meta Platforms surged more than 8% after showing signs that AI investments are boosting the bottom line, while Microsoft shares dropped as the company struggled to justify recent spending plans to investors and showed a slowdown in…
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to ramp up his company’s spending on artificial intelligence in 2026. Wall Street seems fine with that strategy….