OpenAI executives say they will introduce a new artificial intelligence model for “high-value professional work” as the company faces heightened competition with rival Anthropic in attracting corporate customers to adopt AI assistants in their workplaces.

Allbirds, the eco-friendly shoe brand that was once a Wall Street darling and found its way onto the feet of tech CEOs and movie stars, is pivoting to artificial intelligence.

Many Americans are turning to artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT for health advice.

A new Gallup poll finds that more American workers are experimenting with artificial intelligence in their jobs, but there is a cohort of employees who remain skeptical.

The faith-based AI market is expanding, with tools for various religions.

A Baytown man is accused of using artificial intelligence to create sexually explicit images depicting a minor, according to a criminal complaint.

Americans lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes in 2025, with cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence-related scams among the costliest, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s latest Internet Crime Report.

Tech companies set ambitious climate goals at the start of the decade, promising to slash emissoins that contribute to global warming.

The White House is laying out a new framework that it wants Congress to use to shape national rules for artificial intelligence without curbing growth in the sector.

China’s Alibaba Group has pledged on Thursday a goal of surpassing $100 billion in revenue from its artificial intelligence and cloud businesses over the next five years, which it says would be powered by the AI demand boom.

A year after the actor’s death, a generative AI version of Val Kilmer will co-star in an independent film.

Anthropic’s moral stand on U.S. military use of artificial intelligence is reshaping the competition between leading AI companies but also exposing a growing awareness that maybe chatbots just aren’t capable enough for acts of war.

A high-stakes dispute over how the U.S. military uses artificial intelligence has led the Pentagon to cancel its contract with rising AI star Anthropic.

Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish have instead been hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.

Journalists at the investigative outlet ProPublica have pledged to strike if negotiations for a contract don't take a turn — in what is believed would be the first such job action in the news industry where a dispute over how to deal with artificial intelligence is the chief sticking point.

Kane James Kellum, 34, of Nacogdoches is accused of using artificial intelligence to generate images of child pornography of minors that he knew.

Artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia on Wednesday announced another quarter of astounding quarterly growth as investors try to decipher whether technology’s latest craze is overblown hyperbole or a springboard into a new era of prosperity and productivity.

Facebook owner Meta Platforms will buy artificial intelligence chips from Advanced Micro Devices in a deal that will also give it the opportunity to buy up to a 10% stake of the chip company.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pressuring Anthropic to give the military broader access to its artificial intelligence technology or lose its Pentagon contract.

The U.S. stock market rose after getting a reminder that the artificial-intelligence technology boom may also have an upside.

Two Houston ISD elementary campuses will become Pre-K through 8 Future 2 schools starting in the 2026–27 school year.

As Texas voters head into the 2026 primary, candidates are using artificial intelligence to mock opponents and sharpen attacks.

Identifying falsified or digitally enhanced videos, photos and ads takes attention and awareness, but helpful tools are out there.

Artificial intelligence is spreading fast across India, and people already use it to work quicker and cheaper.

India is hosting a major AI summit in New Delhi this week, as it pushes to shape global rules and show its own AI ambitions.

When Amazon announced it was cutting 16,000 corporate jobs, many assumed it was the latest phase of CEO Andy Jassy’s push to reduce the corporate workforce as AI brings more efficiency gains.

Meta’s fourth-quarter results jumped past Wall Street’s expectations thanks to solid advertising revenue, sending shares higher in after-hours trading Wednesday.

A new Gallup poll finds that American workers have adopted artificial intelligence into their work lives at a remarkable pace over the past few years.

The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it will appeal the November ruling in favor of Meta in its antitrust case against the social media giant.

Apple will lean on Google to help finish its bungled attempts to smarten up its virtual assistant Siri and bring other artificial intelligence features to the iPhone as the trendsetting company plays catch up in technology’s latest craze.

Google is expanding the shopping features in its AI chatbot by teaming up with Walmart, Shopify, Wayfair and other big retailers to turn the Gemini app into a virtual merchant as well as an assistant.

Facebook parent Meta has reached nuclear power deals with three companies as it continues to look for electricity sources for its artificial intelligence data centers.

DeepSeek, a Chinese tech startup, is gaining traction in developing nations, narrowing the AI adoption gap with advanced economies.

Nvidia, AMD and Intel all had important chip and AI platform announcements on the first day of CES 2026, but all audiences wanted to see more of was Star Wars and Jensen Huang’s little robot buddies.

When it comes to school safety, every second matters, especially since gun violence is now the leading cause of death for children and teens.

Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to bring characters like Mickey Mouse and Luke Skywalker to the AI company's Sora video tool.

The “Architects of AI” were named Time magazine’s person of the year for 2025.

The European Union is investigating Google for potential antitrust violations related to its AI models.

Federal prosecutors announced Monday the first-ever conviction in an artificial intelligence technology smuggling case, uncovering a sophisticated scheme to illegally export over $160 million worth of advanced computer chips to China through a network of shell companies and falsified shipping documents.

Students applying to college know they're not supposed to use AI chatbots to write their essays.

An iPhone Crash Alert led deputies to a gruesome discovery at a Brazoria County home Saturday night.

Fears about the artificial intelligence boom turning into an overblown bubble have evaporated for now, thanks to a stellar earnings report from Nvidia.

President Donald Trump is counting on the tech sector and artificial intelligence to drive his economic agenda.

The U.S. stock market fell as Nvidia and other superstars created by the frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology dimmed some more.

The announcement by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai is the latest multi-billion dollar investment in Texas by tech companies racing to build infrastructure that can support advanced artificial intelligence.

Researchers at an artificial intelligence firm say they've found the first reported case of foreign hackers using AI to automate portions of cyberattacks.

Officials confirmed Monday that there is no fire at Bellaire High School, despite a social media post showing an AI-generated image of the campus engulfed in flames.

Nvidia and other AI superstar stocks propped up Wall Street.

Judges around the world are seeing error-riddled legal briefs that were generated with the help of artificial intelligence.

Universal Music Group and AI platform Udio have settled a copyright lawsuit and will collaborate on a new music creation and streaming platform.

Nvidia on Wednesday became the first public company to reach a market capitalization of $5 trillion.

Nvidia has become the first $5 trillion company, just three months after the Silicon Valley chipmaker was first to break through the $4 trillion barrier.

A new poll finds that as the United States rapidly builds massive data centers for the development of artificial intelligence, many Americans are concerned about the environmental impact.

Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power.

Prince Harry and Meghan have joined a diverse group, including Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck, to call for a ban on AI "superintelligence" that threatens humanity.

The arrest of five men in a Harris County sting underscores a growing crisis as predators increasingly use artificial intelligence to exploit and target children online.

Senate Republican campaign leaders are using artificial intelligence-generated video to falsely depict Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer appearing to say on camera comments he made in a print publication interview about the political impacts of the partial government shutdown.

A group including BlackRock, Nvidia and Microsoft is buying Aligned Data Centers in an approximately $40 billion deal in an effort to expand next-generation cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Deloitte Australia will partially refund the Australian government for a report filled with apparent AI-generated errors.

Like thousands of actors, Tilly Norwood is looking for a Hollywood agent.

The survey showed participants were seeking better opportunities, e.g., better pay, more predictability, benefits, or career advancement prospects, and that almost half said AI could replace some or all their activities in their own jobs.

A new type of AI motion detection camera is helping a Midtown bar deter crime.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has announced that the Stargate AI data center in Texas will be joined by five more across the U.S. This expansion is part of a $500 billion infrastructure investment promoted by President Donald Trump.

High school and college educators say that student use of artificial intelligence has become so widespread that they need to rethink how to assign and assess students.

The Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into several social media and artificial intelligence companies about the potential harms to children and teenagers who use their AI chatbots as companions.

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Some mortgage experts are using artificial intelligence to help Hispanic homebuyers navigate the loan application process.

Politicians are increasingly blaming artificial intelligence to dodge accountability for embarrassing situations.

President Donald Trump claims a video showing items being tossed from a White House window is fake and created with AI, though his press team earlier seemed to confirm the video's authenticity.

Oliver McCann, a British AI music creator, uses AI to produce songs across various genres.

As the rapid, unregulated development of artificial intelligence continues, the language people in Silicon Valley use to describe it is becoming increasingly religious.

Geoffrey Hinton is sounding the alarm about the risks of artificial intelligence.

Nvidia’s sales of its artificial intelligence chipsets rose at a slower pace than analysts anticipated during the company’s latest quarter, a letdown likely to stoke worries that technology’s latest craze has been fool’s gold.

As AI becomes a part of everyday life, its massive energy and water needs are coming more into focus.

A senior lawyer in Australia has apologized to a judge for using AI-generated fake quotes and nonexistent case judgments in a murder case.

A fictitious rock group with AI-generated music, lyrics, and album art sparked debate about how the new technology is blurring the line between real and synthetic in the music world.

In the midst of an artificial intelligence spending spree, Meta posted stronger-than-expected results for the second quarter, buoyed by growing ad revenue even as its expenses increased.

A new report from Indeed reveals that tech job postings in July were down 36% from early 2020 levels.

A new poll finds most Americans say they've used artificial intelligence to search for information.

Tech companies selling AI to the federal government now face a new challenge: proving their chatbots aren't "woke."

A subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight has voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

President Donald Trump has unveiled an “AI Action Plan” shaped by Silicon Valley tech leaders who supported his campaign.

A coalition of philanthropic funders will spend $1 billion over 15 years to help develop artificial intelligence tools to help spur economic mobility.

The European Union has released a code of practice on general purpose artificial intelligence to help thousands of businesses in the 27-nation bloc using the technology comply with the bloc’s landmark AI rule book.

The Czech Republic has banned the use of any products by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek in state administration over cybersecurity concerns.

A stark disagreement over regulating AI in Republicans’ tax cut and spending bill is the latest tension among conservatives about whether to let states continue to put guardrails on emerging technologies or minimize such interference.

A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure into President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts.

Beatbot is the ultimate pool care assistant, capable of cleaning floors, walls, waterlines and surfaces while even clarifying the water.

Humanoid robots have captivated fans in Beijing with a fully autonomous soccer match powered by artificial intelligence.

Senate Republicans, Democrats and outside groups are mounting an offensive against Cruz’s push to withhold AI money from states that regulate the technology.

A federal judge on Wednesday sided with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the company of stealing their works to train its artificial intelligence technology.

In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books.

Music streaming service Deezer said Friday that it will start flagging albums with AI-generated songs, part of its fight against streaming fraudsters.

Meta is making a $14.3 billion investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting its CEO Alexandr Wang to join a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant.

Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity.

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Disney and Universal sued popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney on Wednesday, marking the first time major Hollywood companies have taken legal action against a maker of generative AI technology that could upend the entertainment industry.

An FBI analyst in Houston, Brian Vincent Rausch, has been arrested and released on bond after being charged with possessing over a thousand child sexual abuse images, including AI-generated ones.

The fate and fortunes of one of the world’s most powerful tech companies is now in the hands of a U.S. judge wrestling with whether to impose far-reaching changes upon Google in the wake of its dominant search engine being declared an illegal monopoly.

As the state seeks to put guardrails around the fast-growing technology, some critics say the bill doesn’t go far enough to protect citizens while industry worries about stifling innovation.