Society and Policy

Hundreds of tech workers have signed an open letter urging the Department of Defense to withdraw its designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” arguing…

OpenAI is partnering with universities across India to roll out its education tools to more than 100,000 students, faculty and administrative staff over the…

ByteDance said it will strengthen safeguards on its new AI video generator, Seedance 2.0, after facing backlash from major Hollywood studios that accused the…

India has ordered social media platforms to tighten enforcement against deepfakes and AI-generated impersonations, while dramatically shortening the time…

New York lawmakers are moving to halt the construction of large new data centers, proposing a three-year moratorium as concerns mount over electricity demand,…

Tinder is testing a new AI-powered feature called Chemistry as it looks to address slowing growth and user burnout from endless swiping. The feature, which is…

Indonesia has allowed Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok to resume operating in the country on a conditional basis, weeks after authorities blocked the service over…

India is offering foreign cloud providers a major new incentive to run AI and other computing workloads from inside the country, proposing zero taxes through…

Meta said Wednesday that it will begin charging developers to run third-party AI chatbots on WhatsApp in markets where regulators are requiring the company to…

A deal where the U.S. government could eventually own up to 50% of TikTok U.S. would’ve sounded impossible not that long ago. But that’s exactly what Perplexity…

Google just gave Gemini a new “study mode” that’s going to get a lot of attention from students — and a lot of side-eye from the test prep industry. The company…

When kids ask big questions — How does rain work? What’s inside a car engine? What would Mars look like? — most AI tools still respond the same way: with a wall…