Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks as he presents the new Meta Ray-Ban Display at the 2025 Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 17, 2025. Benjamin Legendre | AFP | Getty Images Meta‘s efforts to expand its core business from online advertising involves pitching companies AI-powered chat tools that they can use on…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds a smartphone as he makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta will soon show ads and other content to users based on their interactions with the company’s digital assistant and…
The Walt Disney Co. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Walt Disney Company sent a cease and desist letter to Character.AI last week, warning the artificial intelligence startup to stop using copyrighted characters…
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI is debuting what it bills as its most advanced video generation model yet, alongside a new iOS app designed to…
An Amazon device is displayed at an Amazon Devices launch event in New York City on Feb. 26, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Amazon is hosting a launch event on Tuesday where it’s expected to unveil significant updates to its devices lineup. The event is slated to kick off at 10 a.m. ET and will…
U.S. President Donald Trump reacts, as he arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., September 26, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit involving the suspension of President Donald Trump’s account following the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021. The settlement “shall not constitute an…
Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards OpenAI’s Instant Checkout Courtesy of OpenAI OpenAI on Monday announced Instant Checkout, a new feature that allows users to buy products through its artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT. Instant Checkout initially supports single-item purchases directly from U.S. Etsy sellers, and it’s available to U.S. ChatGPT Plus, Pro and Free users. OpenAI…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks to media following a Q&A at the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, U.S., Sept. 23, 2025. Shelby Tauber | Reuters OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is everywhere. His artificial intelligence startup, now valued at $500 billion, has been inking deals valued in the tens to hundreds of billions of dollars…
Jessica Guistolise, Megan Hurley and Molly Kelley talk with CNBC in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 11, 2025, about fake pornographic images and videos depicting their faces made by their mutual friend Ben using AI site DeepSwap. Jordan Wyatt | CNBC In the summer of 2024, a group of women in the Minneapolis area learned that…
In June of last year, Jessica Guistolise received a text message that would change her life. While the technology consultant was dining with colleagues on a work trip in Oregon, her phone alerted her to a text from an acquaintance named Jenny, who said she had urgent information to share about her estranged husband, Ben….
