The Department of Homeland Security has seen the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence firsthand. It found a trafficking victim years later using an A.I. tool that conjured an image of the child a decade older. But it has also been tricked into investigations by deep fake images created...

The tech bros are fighting again. Last week, Apple blocked Epic Games from accessing its developer platform in Europe. The move would have prevented the Fortnite maker from building an app store to rival Apple’s just days before the European Union’s new competition measures — the Digital Marke...

Days after Apple started allowing iOS users in the EU to use third-party app stores, the company has announced more changes related to how developers can distribute their apps. Most significantly, those who meet certain criteria will be able to let users download apps from their websites. The Web Di...

Tuesday’s announcement is the latest example of the Digital Markets Act forcing Apple to make long-resisted changes to its App Store business processes. The DMA is designed to compel “gatekeepers” — big tech companies including Apple — to open their platforms to smaller rivals. The web dow...

Artificial intelligence is driving us into the era of edge computing — two words you should expect to hear more in the coming months and years. Tech giants have poured billions of dollars into the cloud and spent years trying to get customers to move data onto remote servers. Now they’re exp...

AI is helping organizations in nearly every industry increase productivity, engage customers, realize operational efficiencies, and gain a competitive edge. Advances in supercomputing in the cloud and the ability to achieve processing at an exascale level are major catalysts for this new era of AI i...

looking for ways to reverse a sales malaise, is getting into Amazon territory: the paid membership game. The Minneapolis discounter said Tuesday the new paid program, called Target Circle 360, will offer unlimited free same-day delivery in as little as an hour for orders over $35 and free two-day sh...

A group of former Twitter executives sued Elon Musk on Monday in a bid to recover more than $128 million in severance that they allege Musk has not paid since he acquired the company, now called X, more than a year ago. The executives include former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, former CFO Ned Segal, f...

“The accord is one important step to safeguard online communities against harmful AI content, and builds on the individual companies’ ongoing work,” the signatories said.The ‘Tech Accord to Combat Deceptive Use of AI in 2024 Elections’ was signed by global tech giants like Google, Amazon, ...

CEO Andrew Wilson announced the layoff round in a message to employees on Wednesday, telling them that the company had “deeply considered every option to try and limit impacts to our teams.” EA reported a 13,400-worker headcount for March 2023 in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commiss...