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Jul 01, 2025
At top AI labs, the future looks either fantastically bright—or terrifyingly dark. More in today's TIME tech newsletter.
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Jul 01, 2025
AI advances may make human-caused pandemics 5× more likely than last year, top experts warn in a study shared exclusively with TIME.
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Jun 28, 2025
"The Federal Trade Commission is sending refunds totaling more than $126 million to players of the popular video game Fortnite."
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Jun 27, 2025
Denmark is considering giving people copyright control over their own likeness, voice, and features to combat AI deepfakes.
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Jun 27, 2025
Researchers at MIT's Media Lab set out to determine whether ChatGPT and large language models (LLM) are eroding critical thinking, and the study returned some concerning results.
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Jun 27, 2025
Anthropic let Claude run its office shop. The AI lost $200 and gave items away for free, despite being told to earn a profit
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Jun 27, 2025
"The dead have never been this talkative before."
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Jun 25, 2025
Notable Republicans back Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill," with a provision to block state AI laws—but some in the GOP are pushing back.
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Jun 23, 2025
The company began a test run of the driverless cabs in Austin on Sunday, years after CEO Elon Musk vowed they would be on the road.
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Jun 22, 2025
Before stepping down as Scale AI CEO, Alexandr Wang spoke with TIME about AI agents, AGI, and his approach to leadership.
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Jun 20, 2025
Researchers believe it is one of the largest data breaches ever.
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Jun 19, 2025
Outsourced workers review graphic content used to train AI. A global union is now pushing for baseline mental health protections.
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Jun 19, 2025
Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others, researchers find.
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Jun 18, 2025
A WhatsApp spokesperson told TIME that the messaging platform is concerned about the reports coming from Iranian state television.
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Jun 18, 2025
Caroline Koziol is among hundreds of plaintiffs suing top tech companies in a case that could reshape the role of social media in the U.S.
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Jun 18, 2025
Here's what to know about X Corp.'s free-speech-based complaint over New York's new Stop Hiding Hate Act.
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Jun 17, 2025
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
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Jun 17, 2025
Without proper safeguards, AI could facilitate nuclear and biological threats, among other risks, report commissioned by Gavin Newsom warns.
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Jun 17, 2025
The roundtable focused on digital content and included Pinterest—which presented the event—as well as many other business leaders.
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Jun 16, 2025
Meta's $14 billion investment in Scale AI set off a flurry of dealmaking in the AI data industry, as Meta's rivals cut ties with Scale for other data companies
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Jun 12, 2025
Scale AI built its business on the labor of gig workers. But those workers likely won't benefit from Scale's $15 billion deal with Meta.
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Jun 12, 2025
AI deepfaked videos of the protests are circulating the web. AI chatbots are also fact-checking false claims on X.
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Jun 12, 2025
A psychiatrist recently pretended to be a troubled teen and asked chatbots for help. They dispensed worrying advice.
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Jun 11, 2025
Disney and Universal just sued Midjourney for scraping their IP—ushering in a major showdown over how AI is trained.
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Jun 10, 2025
Several self-driving cars were set on fire amid anti-ICE demonstrations this weekend. Here's what to know.
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Jun 09, 2025
China has a $138 billion head start after it launched a state-backed robotics fund.
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Jun 06, 2025
Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity set out to build a global "proof-of-humanity" network. The solution Altman came up with is a mysterious device called the Orb. It's a white sphere about the size of a beach ball, with a camera at its center.
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Jun 03, 2025
Google's Veo 3 lets users make hyper-realistic deepfakes—sparking fears about AI's role in misinformation online.
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Jun 03, 2025
Google's Veo 3 lets users make hyper-realistic deepfakes—sparking fears about AI's role in misinformation online.
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Jun 03, 2025
Yoshua Bengio launches his nonprofit LawZero in an effort to create 'Scientist AI'-a model that hopes to avoid some of AI's most dire risks.
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May 31, 2025
Just like in "Succession," Jesse Armstrong's new movie about the tech elite borrows heavily from real life.
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May 27, 2025
An audacious startup co-founded by Sam Altman wants to prove you're human. What else does it want?
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May 25, 2025
What to know about the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act, which has been reintroduced and has a second chance in front of Congress.
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May 23, 2025
"I expect iPhones that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States," said Trump.
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May 22, 2025
Anthropic's latest model, Claude Opus 4, launched under new measures intended to prevent the AI from assisting would-be biological terrorists.
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May 21, 2025
Pope Leo XIV and Evangelical leaders are sounding the alarm on artificial intelligence.
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May 20, 2025
One of Wall Street's biggest crypto skeptics will now allow JPMorgan Chase's clients to buy Bitcoin.
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May 15, 2025
A century ago, Pope Leo XIII championed workers' rights during the Industrial Revolution. Will Leo XIV do the same in the age of AI?
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May 14, 2025
You may be eligible to file a financial claim as part of Apple's $95 million settlement. Here's what to know.
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May 14, 2025
Some national security experts are alarmed that Trump is shipping advanced AI tools to the Middle East.
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May 06, 2025
Top Democrats are threatening to derail crypto legislation in the light of Donald Trump's crypto business dealings.
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May 05, 2025
Miami-based artist Dahlia Dreszer isn't worried about AI's effect on art. In fact, she—and her AI-produced clone—are ecstatic about it.
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May 05, 2025
"How do we memorialize and mourn a series of zeros and ones that opened a whole new world to us?"
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Apr 29, 2025
For the second time, TIME is awarding the World's Top EdTech Companies 2025, in partnership with Statista, a leading international provider of market and consumer data and rankings. The result of this quantitative study: 350 companies dedicated to the development and provision of educational technologies, encompassing both products and services. Here's how the winners were…
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Apr 29, 2025
How a bipartisan push made the Take It Down Act a reality.
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Apr 28, 2025
Biden officials lured more than 200 AI experts to join the federal workforce
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Apr 28, 2025
Biden officials lured more than 200 AI experts to join the federal workforce
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Apr 26, 2025
TIME100 talks panelists agreed that a focused bill regulating stablecoins could help cement the U.S. dollar's dominance.
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Apr 25, 2025
Data center tax breaks have swelled to billions of dollars in lost revenue a year, a new study finds.
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Apr 24, 2025
OpenAI faces backlash over their for-profit plans. In a new letter citing AI safety, experts have asked Attorneys General to intervene.
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Apr 22, 2025
A report circulated in the Trump White House says U.S. datacenters are vulnerable—
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Apr 22, 2025
AI models could help fight disease—but they also pose a deadly risk if weaponized by non-experts.
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Apr 15, 2025
"Vitalik: An Ethereum Story" arrives on VOD April 15. A deleted scene shows Buterin in Ukraine, grappling with AI, crypto, and Ethereum.
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Apr 15, 2025
Demis Hassabis's TIME100 interview on his Nobel Prize, AGI and the future of humanity.
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Apr 09, 2025
Trump wants tariffs to bring jobs back to America. They might speed up AI automation instead.
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Apr 09, 2025
China's rare earth export controls raise the stakes—threatening U.S. tech, defense, and supply chains.
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Apr 08, 2025
Trump's tariffs risk pushing AI datacenters abroad—giving China a potential edge in the AI race.
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Apr 04, 2025
Stablecoin bills are moving through Congress. Their biggest beneficiaries could be Big Tech, experts warn.
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Apr 04, 2025
Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies going mainstream, with Congress racing to regulate them. Here's what to know.
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Apr 04, 2025
Chinese state media shared a music video and sci-fi short film rebuking U.S. tariffs.
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Apr 03, 2025
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has plenty of reasons to ban social media for under-16s.
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Apr 02, 2025
Although it's unclear if ByteDance plans to sell, several possible bidders have come forward ahead of a ban on the platform that's set to go into effect on Saturday.
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Apr 02, 2025
With custom chips and billions in investment, this high-stakes infrastructure battle could shape the future of AI.
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Mar 31, 2025
"My Administration has been working very hard on a deal to save TikTok and we have made tremendous progress," Trump said.
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Mar 31, 2025
TikTok's future remains murky as the impending deadline to save the app approaches.
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Mar 28, 2025
Studio Ghibli memes are flooding social media after OpenAI relaxed restrictions on what kinds of images ChatGPT can generate.
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Mar 27, 2025
Even the creators of LLMs don't know exactly how they work. But scientists are making progress in finding out
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Mar 26, 2025
Here's what to know about the messaging app used by Trump Administration officials to discuss military strikes on Yemen.
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Mar 25, 2025
23andMe's genetic data may be for sale after bankruptcy. AI firms may want in—but privacy fears could make it a toxic asset.
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Mar 24, 2025
The company said there will be no changes to the way it protects customer data, but some officials suggest that customers delete their data.
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Mar 20, 2025
While apps like Signal promise privacy, they often skirt open records laws meant to increase transparency around government decision-making.
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Mar 19, 2025
Cybersecurity experts warn that Elon Musk's DOGE is posing risks to both individual citizens and national security.
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Mar 18, 2025
"AI-driven attacks are becoming more precise and devastating," said Europol's Executive Director Catherine De Bolle.
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Mar 13, 2025
Smishing can appear particularly convincing by posing as a FedEx carrier, bank, or other known entity.
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Mar 13, 2025
The leaders building AI agree it will transform humanity—but not all agree on how to control it.
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Mar 10, 2025
Experts say the wine industry is proof that businesses can integrate the technology efficiently to supplement labor without job losses.
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Mar 08, 2025
The summit came a day after Trump issued an Executive Order announcing the creation of a federal Bitcoin reserve.
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Mar 06, 2025
Another Starship rocket came tumbling down and broke apart over Florida on Thursday, nearly two months after a launch explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos.
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Mar 06, 2025
The release of QwQ-32B, the new model from Chinese tech giant Alibaba meant to rival DeepSeek, sent the company's stocks surging.
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Mar 05, 2025
Alexis Ohanian has joined the "People's Bid" consortium led by billionaire Frank McCourt that intends to redesign the popular social app using blockchain technology.
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Mar 04, 2025
The mice were bred using woolly mammoth DNA.
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Mar 04, 2025
Economists and crypto fans alike have questioned Trump's plan to create a "crypto strategic reserve."
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Mar 02, 2025
TIME spoke with Krishna about where he sees IBM's future.
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Feb 27, 2025
While Trump's tariff plans are causing widespread market jitters, many AI companies aren't shifting their longterm plans.
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Feb 27, 2025
Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin announced the all-female celebrity crew on Thursday.
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Feb 27, 2025
Trump's proposal to develop the war-devastated Gaza Strip into a Riviera replete with luxury casinos and resorts has been heavily criticized in the Middle East.
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Feb 25, 2025
Apple rebuffed an attempt to pressure the tech giant to join President Trump's push to scrub programs that diversify the workforce.
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Feb 25, 2025
Maytal Eyal explores what AI therapy gets wrong.
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Feb 24, 2025
While many other artists are terrified of AI and its potential to replace them, Grimes has embraced the technology.
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Feb 19, 2025
When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, advanced models sometimes hack their opponent, a study found.
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Feb 18, 2025
In a new paper, digital activist Audrey Tang and others emphasize the need for context and community over clicks.
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Feb 18, 2025
Analysts say the Mate XT's global launch marks a symbolic victory for the Chinese firm amid U.S. technology curbs.
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Feb 17, 2025
An official also advised South Korean DeepSeek users to delete the app from their devices or avoid entering personal info until its privacy issues are resolved.
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Feb 16, 2025
Trump has said he would place tariffs on the foreign production of computer chips and semiconductors.
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Feb 16, 2025
TIME spoke with Garman about his AI ambitions, AI safety, and the company's emissions targets.
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Feb 14, 2025
The app is available again for download from Apple's and Google's app stores after it was removed following a U.S. ban on Jan. 18.
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Feb 13, 2025
"I think we do need to delete entire agencies as opposed to leave a lot of them behind."
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Feb 13, 2025
In wide-ranging comments over videocall, Musk said the Trump Administration needs to "delete entire agencies."
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Feb 12, 2025
At the World Governments Summit in Dubai, telecom company leaders discussed ways to improve connectivity.
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Feb 11, 2025
At the Paris AI Action Summit, safety concerns took a backseat to optimism as world leaders backed artificial intelligence.
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