Clare Duffy

Two families have sued artificial intelligence chatbot company Character.AI, accusing it of providing sexual content to their children and encouraging self-harm and violence. Theirs is the second lawsuit filed against Character.AI over youth safety concerns since October.

TikTok has lost its bid to strike down a law that could result in the platform being banned in the United States.

When legendary former Intel CEO Andy Grove wrote his bestseller “Only the Paranoid Survive” in 1996 about how to predict tech inflection points that might undermine a business, the notion that his company might face such a risk was purely theoretical.

The incoming Trump administration could mean big changes in the government’s relationship with tech companies in ways that could affect users, ranging from the content they might see online to whether they could be confronted with discriminatory AI systems.

Bluesky’s user base has doubled in the past 90 days. Is it a mass exodus from X?

While revenge porn has been around for decades, the proliferation of AI tools means anyone can be a target of harassment, even if they’ve never taken or sent a nude photo. But there are steps that targets can take to protect themselves and places to turn for help.

The use of misogynistic and abusive phrases targeting women, like “your body, my choice” and “get back to the kitchen,” has spiked across social media in the days since Donald Trump’s reelection, according to an analysis from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

Facebook, Instagram, Google and YouTube are clamping down on political ads in an effort to combat misinformation that could undermine trust in the results of a contentious election or stir up unrest.

Elon Musk on Monday held a digital version of the town-hall-style rallies he has hosted on behalf of former President Donald Trump. But the event on X ended just a few minutes after it started, when Musk encountered technical difficulties.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company’s Apple Intelligence AI tools would “supercharge” the iPhone 16 when he introduced the new device last month. On Thursday, the world got its first glimpse of what Apple’s artificial intelligence technology has meant for iPhone sales.