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There is no button to turn off Meta AI on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger or WhatsApp. But if users want to limit it, there are some (imperfect) workarounds.

Engineers left these drawings as a way to sign their work. Many are puns that made them chuckle to themselves. Now social media has rediscovered them and hobbyists try to keep that history alive.

Lawmakers in at least seven states are taking big legislative swings to regulate artificial intelligence systems as they have been found to discriminate based on race, gender or more.

The biggest antitrust trial in nearly 25 years kicks off on Tuesday as the Justice Department makes its case that Google is an illegal monopoly.

A federal judge has handed Microsoft a major victory by declining to block its looming $69 billion takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard. Regulators are seeking to ax the deal because they say it will hurt competition.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is seeking a court order to block the 17-month-old deal from closing while Microsoft is trying to complete the purchase before a July 18 deadline that would trigger a $3 billion breakup fee.

Last year, All-Star Vintage closed its brick-and-mortar store in Tacoma's Lincoln District. Now it's opened shop in the metaverse and hosting a physical pop-up to introduce others to the experience.

Microsoft says it is making a “multiyear, multibillion dollar investment” in the artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and other tools that can generate readable text, images and computer code.

Researchers at the University of Washington Center for Human Rights are concerned the data collected by automated license plate readers could be used to impede immigrant rights or restrict access to reproductive healthcare

Democratic lawmakers are widening their scrutiny into the role of tech companies in collecting the personal data of people who may be seeking an abortion, as lawmakers, regulators and the Biden administration grapple with the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling ending the constitutional protections for abortion.