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You’ve probably chatted with ChatGPT, experimented with Gemini, Claude or Perplexity, or even asked Grok to verify a post on X. These tools are impressive, but they’re just the tip of the artificial intelligence iceberg. Lurking beneath is something far bigger that has been all the talk in recent weeks: artificial superintelligence. Some people use […]

The Trump administration on Wednesday laid out the steps it plans to take in a bid for “global AI dominance,” including reducing regulations to speed up the development of artificial intelligence tools and the infrastructure to power them. Other components of President Trump’s AI Action Plan include steps to encourage open-source and open-weight AI models, […]

Many Americans already track health statistics like heart rate and breathing patterns on tech-savvy accessories. But now, the federal government is getting involved. On June 24, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced “one of the largest HHS campaigns in history” to encourage the use of wearables to track health conditions, a trend CNET has recently […]

Meta is expanding its age-verification tools by using AI to detect teenaged users and then automatically placing them into more restrictive Teen Account settings even if the user entered an adult birthday. The company said in a blog post Monday that it will proactively identify accounts it suspects belong to teens and move them into […]

CNet At the South by Southwest conference, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, an ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate, raised the question of who AI works for. Even if AI models are reliable, accurate, and unbiased, there will be concerns about whether company or user interests are paramount. Said Berners-Lee, “I want AIs to work […]

Gates, in an ABC-TV interview with Oprah Winfrey earlier this month, shared his thoughts on just how big a deal he expects generative AI systems to be, saying he sees the tech enhancing myriad aspects of society.

Walz has emphasized the importance of government investment in technology. He could also continue the push to make deepfakes illegal — Walz last year signed into Minnesota law a deepfake bill that makes it a criminal offense to disseminate non-consensual deepfake images.

Microsoft has made the AI feature opt-in for Copilot PCs and pulled the related Windows release from its developer channel.