MICROSOFT BRINGS BING CHATBOT TO PHONES AFTER CURBING QUIRKS

Microsoft is ready to take its new Bing chatbot mainstream — less than a week after making major fixes to stop the artificially intelligent search engine from going off the rails.

HOW TO KEEP YOUR TWITTER ACCOUNT SECURE WITHOUT PAYING

Twitter users were greeted last weekend with an ultimatum from the social media app: Subscribe to the platform’s new premium service or lose a popular account security feature.

ΜΕΤΑ TESTING NEW SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE FOR VERIFIED ACCOUNTS

Meta is testing a new subscription service that would let Facebook and Instagram users pay for a verified account

Al Summit - Apple is entering the artificial intelligence race

With the AI war heating up and companies like Microsoft and Google battling it out to offer more advanced technologies to their customers, Apple looks set to enter the ring next.

FDA'S OWN REPUTATION COULD BE RESTRAINING ITS MISINFO FIGHT

The government agency responsible for tracking down contaminated peanut butter and defective pacemakers is taking on a new health hazard: online misinformation.

PAY-PER-CHEW: MORE RESTAURANTS TRYING SUBSCRIPTION PROGRAMS

Consumers are willing to pay monthly subscription fees for streaming services, pet food and even toilet paper. And now some restaurants are betting they’ll do the same for their favorite meals.

WORD WAR: IN RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR.INFORMATION BECAME A WEAPON

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II, and the first to see algorithms and TikTok videos deployed alongside fighter planes and tanks.

TIKTOK BANNED FROM EU COMMISSION PHONES OVER CYBERSECURITY

The European Union’s executive branch said Thursday that it has temporarily banned TikTok from phones used by employees as a cybersecurity measure, reflecting widening worries from Western officials over the Chinese-owned video sharing app.

US REVISES DOWN LAST QUARTER'S ECONOMIC GROWTH TO 2.7% RATE

The U.S. economy expanded at a 2.7% annual rate from October through December, a solid showing despite rising interest rates and elevated inflation, the government said Thursday in a downgrade from its initial estimate.

RAIMONDO SEEKS TO RALLY US BEHIND $52 BILLION CHIP PROGRAM

On State of the Union night, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo strode down the aisle and found her seat in front of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.

A Marvel Villain Comes Into Focus in 'Ant-Man 3'

Peyton Reed’s “Ant-Man” films have generally served as a kind of palate cleanser to the world-ending stakes of the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Amid ChatGPT Outcry, Some Teachers Are Inviting AI to Class

Under the fluorescent lights of a fifth-grade classroom in Lexington, Kentucky, Donnie Piercey instructed his 23 students to try and outwit the “robot” that was churning out writing assignments.

EX-APPLE DESIGNER BEHIND CHARLES III'S CORONATION EMBLEM

The official emblem of King Charles III’s coronation, created by former Apple chief designer Jony Ive and his associates, honors the monarch’s love of nature by joining the flora that symbolize the four nations of the United Kingdom in a single image.

US BLACKLISTS 6 CHINESE ENTITIES OVER BALLOON PROGRAM

The United States has blacklisted six Chinese entities it said were linked to Beijing’s aerospace programs as part of its retaliation over an alleged Chinese spy balloon that traversed U.S. airspace.

GOOGLE TO EXPAND MISINFORMATION 'PREBUNKING' IN EUROPE

After seeing promising results in Eastern Europe, Google will initiate a new campaign in Germany that aims to make people more resilient to the corrosive effects of online misinformation.

STUDY SHOWS 'STRIKING' NUMBER WHO BELIEVE NEWS MISINFORMS

Half of Americans in a recent survey indicated they believe national news organizations intend to mislead, misinform or persuade the public to adopt a particular point of view through their reporting.

BUFFETT'S FIRM BUYS APPLE, SLASHES CHIPMAKER AND BANK STAKES

Billionaire Warren Buffett’s company added to its already substantial Apple investment at the end of last year while slashing a new investment in computer chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor and two longtime bank holdings.

ELON MUSK HOPES TO HAVE TWITTER CEO TOWARD THE END OF YEAR

Billionaire Elon Musk said that he anticipates finding a CEO for Twitter “probably toward the end of this year.”

TIKTOK 'DE-INFLUENCERS' WANT GEN Z TO BUY LESS, AND MORE

At a time when consumers are inundated with so-called social media influencers peddling the latest products online, a slew of TikTok users are leveraging their platforms to tell people what not to buy instead.

WHITE HOUSE: TESLA TO MAKE SOME EV CHARGERS AVAILABLE TO ALL

Electric car giant Tesla will, for the first time, make some of its charging stations available to all U.S. electric vehicles by the end of next year, under a new plan announced by the White House.

SEVERAL UNIVERSITIES TO EXPERIMENT WITH MICRO NUCLEAR POWER

If your image of nuclear power is giant, cylindrical concrete cooling towers pouring out steam on a site that takes up hundreds of acres of land, soon there will be an alternative: tiny nuclear reactors that produce only onehundredth the electricity and can even be delivered on a truck.

NEW AI VOICE-CLONING TOOLS 'ADD FUEL' TO MISINFORMATION FIRE

In a video from a Jan. 25 news report, President Joe Biden talks about tanks. But a doctored version of the video has amassed hundred of thousands of views this week on social media, making it appear he gave a speech that attacks transgender people.

New Bing Al warfare: The battlefield of the decade is now placed

Welcome to the AI battles, where companies compete to be the top provider of artificial intelligence technology.

DUBAI AGAIN PLANS FOR FLYING TAXI TAKEOFF, THIS TIME BY 2026

Dubai again is planning for the takeoff of flying taxis in this futuristic city-state on the Arabian Peninsula, offering its firmest details yet for a pledged launch by 2026.

CHINA SANCTIONS LOCKHEED MARTIN, RAYTHEON FOR TAIWAN SALES

China on Thursday imposed trade and investment sanctions on Lockheed Martin and a unit of Raytheon for supplying weapons to Taiwan, stepping up efforts to isolate the island democracy claimed by the ruling Communist Party as part of its territory.

CBO PROJECTS HIGHER UNEMPLOYMENT, SLOW EXIT FROM INFLATION

The Congressional Budget Office said this week that it expects the U.S. economy to stagnate this year with the unemployment rate jumping to 5.1% — a bleak outlook that was paired with a 10-year projection that publicly held U.S. debt would nearly double to $46.4 trillion in 2033.

FORD STOPS PRODUCTION OF ELECTRIC F-150 AFTER BATTERY FIRE

Ford Motor Co. has suspended production and halted shipments of the F-150 Lightning electric pickup after a battery caught fireduringa pre-delivery quality check.

AI Search Engines Can Now Chat With Us, but Glitches Abound

Nearly a quarter-century after Google's search engine began to reshape how we use the internet, big tech companies are racing to revamp a familiar web tool into a gateway to a new form of artificial intelligence.

Britcoin? UK Gets Closer to Launching a Digital Currency

Britcoin is moving closer to reality.

AUSTRALIAN DEFENSE DEPARTMENT TO REMOVE CHINESE-MADE CAMERAS

Australia's Defense Department will remove surveillance cameras made by Chinese Communist Party-linked companies from its buildings, the government said Thursday after the U.S. and Britain made similar moves.