Nepalese soldiers are guarding the streets of the country's capital and ordering people to stay at home as they try to restore order after protesters stormed and set fire to government buildings and attacked politicians.
Klarna priced its long awaited initial public offering at $40 a share late Tuesday, valuing the Swedish buy now, pay later company at more than $15 billion.
Ethiopia has inaugurated Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam to produce more than 5,000 megawatts and boost the electric vehicle industry in a country that has banned the importation of gasoline-powered vehicles.
Nepal’s crackdown on social media companies, which led to protests and police killing at least 19 people Monday, is part of a yearslong decline of internet freedoms around the world as even democracies seek to curtail online speech.
Apple has rolled out its next generation of iPhones that includes a new ultra-thin model and a slight price hike for one of its high-end models, while the company feels the squeeze of a global trade war.
Experts say a ship likely cut cables in the Red Sea, disrupting internet access in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Protests against Nepal’s short-lived ban on social media grew increasingly violent as demonstrators set government buildings and politicians’ homes on fire and attacked some leaders.
A federal judge on Monday skewered a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots, raising the specter that the case could still end up going to trial.
Police in Nepal’s capital of Kathmandu opened fire on demonstrators protesting a government attempt to regulate social media that blocked some of the world’s largest platforms, including Facebook, X and YouTube.
Artificial intelligence is transforming call centers by streamlining tasks and improving customer service.
Undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea have disrupted internet access in parts of Asia and the Middle East.
Federal officials are moving a step closer to allowing state and federal prisons to jam cellphone signals from devices smuggled to inmates.
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.
The attorneys general of California and Delaware have expressed serious concerns about the safety of OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, especially for children and teens.
Ballerina Cappuccina, an AI-generated cartoon ballerina with a cappuccino teacup for a head, has become a viral sensation on TikTok.
European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a 2.95 billion euro ($3.5 billion) fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services.
“Only Murders in the Building” returning for its fifth season on Hulu and Ed Sheeran coming back with the new pop album “Play” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
Scientists conducting a first-of-its-kind drilling operation have extracted samples of fresh water hiding in massive reservoirs deep under the ocean.
Pope Leo XIV will preside over his first canonization ceremony Sunday to create the first millennial saint.
A federal jury has ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for improperly snooping on people’s smartphones during a nearly decade-long period of intrusions.
The playoff-bound Oakland Ballers of the independent Pioneer League are turning to artificial intelligence to manage all aspects of Saturday’s home game against the Great Falls Voyagers at Raimondi Park.
Federal officials have agreed to restore health- and science-related webpages and data following a lawsuit settlement with doctors' groups and other organizations.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a shake-up of Google’s search engine in an attempt to curb the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly while rebuffing the U.S. government’s attempt to break up the company and impose other restraints.
Bulgarian authorities aren't investigating a suspected Russian interference operation involving a plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen because they say the interference is now common.
Humanoid robots kicked soccer balls, boxed and even attempted archery at the birthplace of the Olympic Games in Ancient Olympia.
The case against Long Island’s suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer has emerged as a potentially precedent-setting battleground in the use of advanced DNA techniques in criminal cases.
In a story published Aug. 29, 2025, about Social Security whistleblower Charles Borges, who had resigned after filing a complaint that alleged Department of Government Efficiency officials mishandled Americans’ sensitive information, The Associated Press erroneously reported that he was being represented in the case by The Project Government Accountability Office.
A follow-up TV comedy of “The Office” called “The Paper” and the buddy live action comedy “Lilo & Stitch” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
As the rapid, unregulated development of artificial intelligence continues, the language people in Silicon Valley use to describe it is becoming increasingly religious.
Oregon lawmakers are gathering in Salem for a special session focused on transportation funding.
Nvidia reported a 56% increase in second-quarter revenue Wednesday and a 59% rise in net income compared to a year ago.
Online age checks are on the rise in the U.S. and elsewhere, asking people for IDs or face scans to prove they are over 18 or 21 or even 13.
A cyberattack has caused Nevada’s state offices to close for two days this week and rendered some government websites and phone lines unavailable.
Donald Trump has a message for critics who think turning the U.S. government into a major stockholder of Intel is a “socialist” move: More is coming.
Police have arrested seven people after they occupied an office at Microsoft's headquarters in Washington state.
Nvidia’s sales of its artificial intelligence chipsets rose at a slower pace than analysts anticipated during the company’s latest quarter, a letdown likely to stoke worries that technology’s latest craze has been fool’s gold.
Melania Trump is inviting students in grades K-12 to participate in a government-sponsored nationwide contest using artificial intelligence.
AT&T said Tuesday that it’s spending $23 billion to acquire certain wireless spectrum licenses from EchoStar, a significant expansion of AT&T’s low- and mid-band coverage networks.
A study finds that AI chatbots often avoid answering high-risk suicide questions but are inconsistent with less direct prompts.
Elon Musk on Monday targeted Apple and OpenAI in an antitrust lawsuit alleging that the iPhone maker and the ChatGPT maker are teaming up to thwart competition in artificial intelligence.
President Donald Trump on Friday announced the U.S. government has secured a 10% stake in struggling Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in a deal completed just a couple weeks after he depicted the company’s CEO as a conflicted leader unfit for the job.
Sabrina Carpenter’s seventh studio album, “Man’s Best Friend,” and Marvel’s “Thunderbolts” starring Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
Interpol has announced that a major cybercrime crackdown has led to the arrest of 1,209 suspects across Africa.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company is discussing a potential new computer chip designed for China with the Trump administration.
The voting technology company suing Fox News for defamation is now entangled in a widening bribery investigation.
Google on Wednesday unveiled a new line-up of Pixel smartphones injected with another dose of artificial intelligence that’s designed to do everything from fetch vital information stored on the devices to help improve photos as they’re being taken.
Lawyers for the media giant Meta says a lawsuit brought by families of the victims of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, should be thrown out.
Minnesota has joined a wave of states suing TikTok, claiming the app uses addictive algorithms that harm young people's mental health.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday confirmed the U.S. government is vying for a 10% stake in Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in an unusual deal that would deepen the Trump administration’s financial ties with major computer chip manufacturers and punctuate a dramatic about-face from the president’s recent push to oust the company’s CEO.
A judge for the U.S. District Court in Washington has issued an injunction preventing the Trump administration's Federal Trade Commission from investigating Media Matters for America, the liberal media watchdog organization.
A federal appeals court has ruled that part of a first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising in Maryland aimed at Big Tech is unconstitutional.
Outer space has emerged as the world's next battlefield, demonstrated by recent cyberattacks on satellites blamed on Russia.
Migos rapper Offset releasing his third solo album “Kiari” and Samara Weaving playing a reformed getaway driver in the heist thriller “Eenie Meanie” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
The Supreme Court has refused for now to block enforcement of a Mississippi law aimed at regulating the use of social media by children.
New York’s attorney general has sued the parent company of the Zelle payment platform, months after the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau abandoned a similar case under the Trump administration.
Russian authorities have announced partial restrictions on calls in messaging apps Telegram and WhatsApp.
South Korean cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon has pleaded guilty to two fraud charges arising from a $40 billion cryptocurrency collapse.
YouTube is ready to start testing a new age-verification system in the U.S. using artificial intelligence to distinguish between adults and minors based on their viewing habits.
Less than a week after President Donald Trump called for the resignation of Intel’s CEO, shares of the chipmaker are rising after Trump said he had a “very interesting” meeting with Lip-Bu Tan.
Billionaire SpaceX, Tesla and X owner Elon Musk says he plans to sue Apple for not featuring X and its Grok artificial intelligence chatbot app in its top recommended apps in its App Store.
Nvidia and AMD agreed to share 15% of their revenues from chip sales to China with the U.S. government, President Donald Trump confirmed at a press conference on Monday.
Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.
Vanessa Kirby starring in the gritty film “Night Always Comes,” and Maroon 5 releasing their eighth studio album with songs featuring Lil Wayne and Blackpink’s LISA are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
President Donald Trump's ambiguous plans for 100% tariffs on non-U.S. computer chips is causing confusion among businesses and trading partners.
Roblox, the online gaming platform wildly popular with children and teenagers, is rolling out an open-source version of an artificial intelligence system it says can help preemptively detect predatory language in game chats.
Surveillance systems in American schools increasingly monitor everything students write on school accounts and devices.
Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank Group has reported a $2.9 billion profit for the April-June quarter, rebounding from a loss a year earlier, as its investments benefited from the craze for artificial intelligence.
President Donald Trump says he's imposing a 100% tariff on computer chips— a move that raises the specter of higher prices for electronics, autos, household appliances and other essential goods that depend on the processors.
Apple CEO Tim Cook joined President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday to announce a commitment by the tech company to increase its investment in U.S. manufacturing by an additional $100 billion over the next four years.
WhatsApp has taken down 6.8 million accounts linked to criminal scam centers worldwide, according to its parent company, Meta.
