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Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a conference in San Francisco this week. The company said it has recently taken down 10 influence operations that were using its generative artificial intelligence tools. Four of those operations were likely run by the Chinese government.

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  • Technology

OpenAI takes down covert operations tied to China and other countries

The company said China and other nations are covertly trying to use chatbots to influence opinion around the world. In one case, operatives also used the tools to write internal performance reports.

June 05, 2025
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  • Shannon Bond
GPB News NPR

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  • Technology

Denver researchers say robot companions can improve senior citizens' quality of life

AI companies are pushing increasingly lifelike ways to interact with their technology. Researchers in Denver say they have an AI-powered robot that can really improve senior citizens' quality of life.

June 04, 2025
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By:
  • Andrea Dukakis
People talk near a Meta sign outside of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.

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  • Technology

Meta plans to replace humans with AI to assess privacy and societal risks

Current and former Meta employees fear the new automation push comes at the cost of allowing AI to make tricky determinations about how Meta's apps could lead to real world harm.

June 03, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn and
  • Shannon Bond
A screenshot of the website for Chloe Samaha's startup BOND, an earlier version of which was almost entirely vibe coded.

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  • Business

Anyone can use AI chatbots to 'vibe code.' Could that put programmers out of a job?

You no longer need to be a software engineer to build software — you can "vibe code" it by prompting chatbots to build apps and websites. Could that put programmers out of a job?

June 02, 2025
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By:
  • John Ruwitch
A woman walks past a Google logo at the Google Campus in Warsaw on Feb.13, 2025.

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  • Technology

Should a court break up Google? The tech giant made its final stand today

Last summer a federal judge ruled that Google had monopolized the search market. Now the Justice Department and the tech giant had one last chance to argue over what the penalties should be.

May 30, 2025
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
President Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk listen to a question from a reporter in the Oval Office on Friday, as Musk concludes his role leading Trump's Department of Government Efficiency.

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  • Politics

Elon Musk is leaving the federal government. What's next for DOGE?

Elon Musk is leaving the Department of Government Efficiency effort. His 130 day tenure was marked by legal setbacks, overstated savings claims and little evidence DOGE made things more efficient.

May 30, 2025
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
Diamondback terrapin

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  • Environment

Jekyll Island Authority launches interactive maps to track turtle activity in real time

More than 250 diamondback terrapins have been documented along the Jekyll Island Causeway so far this year, with about two-thirds rescued alive.

May 29, 2025
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  • Benjamin Payne
SpaceX's mega rocket Starship is prepared for a test flight from Starbase, Texas, on Monday, May 26, 2025.

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  • Space

Elon Musk's Starship rocket loses control on its 9th launch

Several dummy satellites were supposed to be launched, but a door on the ship did not open as planned.

May 28, 2025
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel and
  • Ayana Archie
Cooling towers at the nuclear reactor facility at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Waynesboro, Ga. President Trump signed executive orders which seek to reorganize America's nuclear regulator while giving a boost to new nuclear technologies.

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  • Technology

Trump seeks to boost nuclear industry and overhaul safety regulator

A series of executive orders aims to promote new kinds of nuclear reactors while restructuring the body in charge of nuclear safety.

May 23, 2025
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
An employee holds a full-size prototype LMR battery cell at the General Motors Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Center. GM has prototyped approximately 300 full-size LMR cells as it worked with LG Energy Solution to crack the code on the chemistry.

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  • Business

The great battery race: China and the U.S. compete over the future of EVs

The car you drive years in the future might run off a battery being invented in a lab today. Companies in China and the United States are racing to perfect and scale up next-generation technologies.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske and
  • John Ruwitch
Jony Ive attends the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" exhibition on Monday, May 5, 2025, in New York.

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  • Business

OpenAI forges deal with iPhone designer Jony Ive to make AI-enabled devices

The $6.5 billion deal brings together the maker of ChatGPT and one of the world's most famous product designers in a venture to create new AI-enabled devices.

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • John Ruwitch
Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun participates in a session during the Token 2049 crypto conference in Dubai on May 1, 2025. Sun is a top investor in Trump's meme coin and says he plans to attend an exclusive dinner with the president.

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  • Politics

Raising ethics questions, top Trump meme coin investors to dine with president tonight

President Trump is hosting an exclusive dinner tonight for the largest investors in the $TRUMP meme coin, putting the murky world of cryptocurrencies on a collision course with White House ethics.

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Elon Musk speaking during a town hall meeting on March 30, 2025 in Green Bay, Wisc. ahead of a state Supreme Court election where he invested millions of dollars, only to see his preferred candidate lose. The billionaire announced on Tuesday that he planned to spend less on politics going forward.

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  • Politics

Musk to slow down political spending: 'I think I've done enough'

The billionaire executive was Trump's biggest donor in 2024. Now, however, he is planning to cut back his spending on politics, he said on Tuesday.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
The Verizon logo is displayed on the exterior of a Verizon store. The FCC approved its $20 billion deal to buy Frontier Communications, a day after Verizon told the U.S. regulator that it would end many of its diversity-related policies.

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  • Business

Verizon ends DEI policies to get FCC's blessing for its $20 billion Frontier deal

It's the latest big company to back away from its diversity pledges to keep the U.S. government happy.

May 19, 2025
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By:
  • Maria Aspan
Daniel Berulis filed a whistleblower disclosure with Congress claiming that DOGE staffers compromised the NLRB's computer networks and may have taken sensitive data in the process.

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  • Politics

Labor watchdog opens investigation into DOGE whistleblower claims after NPR reporting

DOGE employees demanded the highest level of access to the labor agency's systems, according to a whistleblower and reporting from NPR. The whistleblower said sensitive data then left the agency.

May 16, 2025
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  • Stephen Fowler and
  • Jenna McLaughlin
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