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ChatGPT is preparing to generate “erotica for adults” starting in December, a significant policy shift that comes more than a year after OpenAI first began exploring how to allow users…

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi are leading the charge to restrict the First Amendment under the current administration, but they faced a major rebuke this…

Meta removed a Facebook group page on Tuesday that was allegedly used to “dox and target” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Chicago. The takedown came after the…

As the U.S. government shutdown enters its third week, the Trump administration is searching for alternative financial mechanisms to ensure federal law enforcement officers continue to be paid. With Republicans…

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell suggested on Tuesday that the central bank is nearing the end of its effort to reduce its bond holdings, known as quantitative tightening (QT), while…

Your next favorite YouTuber may not even speak the same language as you. Following the recent launch of its auto-dubbing feature, which uses AI to translate audio, YouTube is now…

Meta announced on Tuesday that it will now automatically restrict the content visible to teenage users on Instagram to what they would typically encounter in a movie rated PG-13. This…

Finnish health tech company Oura has secured over $900 million in fresh funding, led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, with new investor ICONIQ and contributions from Whale Rock and…

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has abandoned the company’s founding philosophy that better ideas would lead to artificial general intelligence (AGI), embracing a new conviction that massive compute and infrastructure…

To address user frustration with search results cluttered by ads, Google is rolling out a significant design change that groups all its advertisements into a single section labeled “Sponsored results,”…

Apple announced new models of the MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro on Wednesday, all powered by the updated M5 chip, which allows them to run significantly faster than…

Spotify is expanding its tools to give children under 13 more room to develop their own music tastes outside of its dedicated Spotify Kids service. The new feature, called “managed…

Fans of the “Avatar” franchise have reason for excitement, as a new fighting game based on the beloved series is officially set for release next year. The game, currently operating…

Strava, the 16-year-old fitness-tracking application, is making preparations to go public, according to reporting by the Financial Times. CEO Michael Martin told the publication that the San Francisco-based company plans…

The political pain of the U.S. government shutdown is deepening as the impasse heads toward a third week, marked by escalating hostility between Republicans and Democrats. Hundreds of thousands of…

Vice President JD Vance accused Democrats of “hostage-taking” in the ongoing U.S. government shutdown, as the political stalemate continues over Democratic demands to extend expiring healthcare subsidies. The Healthcare Policy…

China’s government has denounced President Donald Trump‘s latest threat to impose an additional 100% tariff on Chinese goods, calling it a “typical example of US double standards.” A spokesperson for…

Inflation has risen for three of the last four months and is now slightly higher than it was a year ago. Despite this, neither President Donald Trump nor top Federal…

President Donald Trump’s actions in his second term have led to a systematic and unprecedented campaign against free speech, prompting legal experts and judges to warn that the First Amendment…

Former President Barack Obama recently warned of a “rising wave of authoritarianism sweeping the globe,” even in nations once considered immune to democratic erosion. Speaking with democracy activists from Hungary…