The opening lyrics couldn’t be plainer: “I am from Bosnia; take me to America.”.

Shares of SpaceX soared 19% in their Wall Street debut, making the rocket maker’s founder and CEO Elon Musk the first-ever trillionaire.

Anthropic will donate $150 million to launch a fellowship program called Claude Corps that plans to help nonprofits effectively use artificial intelligence by embedding 1,000 trained fellows in various organizations for a year.

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX is set to make its debut on Wall Street Friday.

Anthropic has joined calls for the AI industry to find ways to cushion people from AI's disruptions to the workforce.

Visa is embedding its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to shop and complete transactions for users.

In Brazil, home of soccer-mad fans and the five-time world champions, the only way to watch all 104 games of the World Cup will be through the streaming platform anchored by a digital influencer.

When SpaceX makes its debut on the U.S. stock market, it wants smaller-pocketed, mom-and-pop investors to play a big role in what may be the biggest IPO ever.

Anyone following SpaceX’s plans to sell shares to the public is likely to hear terms thrown around that describe steps and components of an initial public offering.

Taiwan's military has sent rockets in China's direction from “shoot and scoot” launchers in a demonstration of how it might defend itself against an attack.

Bill Gates says he made an error in judgment by ever meeting with Jeffrey Epstein as the Microsoft co-founder faces questions behind closed doors from lawmakers about his relationship with the disgraced financier.

Fans who hear the whirring sound of a drone over a stadium might see it as a nuisance but law enforcement has long viewed those aircraft as a potential weapon of mass destruction.

New York has implemented a law requiring advertisements featuring AI-generated people to clearly label them as “synthetic performers.”.

Humanoid robots struggling with tasks like grasping a cup have a new teacher — a person wearing an ultrasound wristband that captures the movement of muscles, tendons and ligaments beneath the skin.

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Sweden is set to ban mobile phones in schools from the next academic year as part of a broad reversal on the use of screens in classrooms.

OpenAI has filed preliminary paperwork to potentially become a publicly traded company.

The Pentagon has added several prominent Chinese businesses to its list of Chinese military companies.

Brazoria County commissioners are set to consider a resolution Tuesday that would establish the county’s official position that future data center developments should not move forward without safeguards protecting county resources and residents.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has met with Sen. Bernie Sanders to discuss public ownership in AI companies — a meeting that highlighted the tension between AI powerhouses and policymakers.

In a June 6 story about humanoid robots in China, The Associated Press misspelled the name of Matrix Robotics’ CEO.

Anthropic is proposing that top AI companies coordinate a way to pause the development of advanced AI systems.

The Alvin City Council unanimously approved a resolution Thursday opposing data center development within city limits until additional studies, impact analyses and regulatory reviews can be completed, according to council member Scott Salter.

A new study finds that smoke from larger wildfires is reversing more than a decade of American improvements in smog.

The Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration in a case about the power of federal regulators over telecommunications companies.

Some of the leading artificial intelligence companies are moving toward initial public offerings this year at eye-popping valuations.

SpaceX says it plans to raise up to $75 billion when it goes public this month, setting the stage for the largest-ever stock market debut and putting Elon Musk on course to becoming the world’s first trillionaire.

Polymarket is ending its paid relationship with George Santos as federal regulators investigate him for possible insider trading.

According to a United Nations University report, the environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries.

President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order on oversight of artificial intelligence, less than two weeks after postponing a White House ceremony over his concerns that a similar policy could dull America’s edge on AI technology.

The state of Florida has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming the company knowingly released and aggressively marketed ChatGPT to the public while concealing serious risks.

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is moving toward going public on Wall Street, the latest chapter in its meteoric rise from a little-known research laboratory to one of the leading AI companies valued at $965 billion.

The rise of remote work since the pandemic has made businesses more reluctant to hire young, inexperienced workers and is the key driver of higher unemployment rates for recent college graduates, a study released Monday has found.

Nvidia has unveiled powerful new chips to bring advanced artificial intelligence to Windows laptops and desktops.

Malaysia has started enforcing rules to prevent children under 16 from having social media accounts.

The Trump administration is pushing to use artificial intelligence in the U.S. military even as it faces calls for caution from some companies and military leaders.

Russian intelligence agencies have grown more aggressive in their efforts to steal Western technology and defense secrets as sanctions squeeze the country’s wartime economy.

Artificial intelligence is helping a London-based singer-songwriter continue writing and recording music after Parkinson’s disease largely took away his ability to play guitar.

The decades-long quest to build home robots that are both helpful and lifelike — spurred on by fictional machines like The Jetsons’ humanoid maid Rosie —- is still mostly a pipe dream, but some developers are getting closer.

A rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has exploded during a test at the launch pad.

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said Thursday it raised $65 billion in private funding that will push its valuation to $965 billion, a whopping number that makes the 5-year-old research laboratory behind the Claude chatbot one of the world’s most valuable startups as it careens toward a likely Wall Street debut.

Ohio is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states to attract the massive new facilities that power and train artificial intelligence chatbots.

European Union regulators have fined Chinese online retailer Temu for failing to protect consumers from illegal products.

The Humanoids Summit Tokyo showcases advanced robotics, highlighting China's growing influence.

Tencent says users of PayPal will be able to make payments in China using QR codes through WeChat Pay's extensive merchant network, in a tourism friendly move.

Robots that look like dogs or people try to replicate symmetrical shapes found in nature.

Iranians have begun to regain internet access after authorities ended a monthslong shutdown.

The typical CEO compensation package rose nearly 6% in 2025 to $17.7 million, as company boards rewarded their top executives for bigger profits and higher stock prices, and gave them incentives to stick around and make even more money for shareholders in the years ahead.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has written to U.S. President Donald Trump and Congress asking for more air defense ammunition.

Britain's cyberspying chief has warned that artificial intelligence is becoming an “unstoppable force” weaponized just below traditional warfare levels.

Schools across the U.S. are starting to rethink the abundance of digital devices in classrooms.

Cypriot YouTuber and TikToker Fidias Panayiotou says he’ll hold onto his European Parliament seat despite winning one in Cyprus’ House of Representatives.

Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery.

Waymo has suspended driverless car services in Atlanta and Texas after one of its vehicles was stranded by flooding during heavy rains that will likely also hinder travel in a large swath of the U.

Paul McCartney reflecting on the “Days We Left Behind” with his 18th studio album and John Travolta writing, directing and narrating an ode to the glamorous days of 1960s air travel are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

Canada's federal broadcast regulator is requiring large online streaming services to contribute 15% of their Canadian revenues to Canadian content.

Federal prosecutors have charged two men with using AI to create nude videos and photos under a new law targeting deepfake pornography.

Elon Musk is all about big numbers — billions, trillions – and you can find them sprinkled throughout an extraordinary document he just filed to take his rocket maker SpaceX public.

President Donald Trump has called off plans to sign a new executive order on artificial intelligence hours before an expected White House ceremony.

Malaysia's Communications and Multimedia Commission has ordered TikTok to explain and address its failure to act swiftly against offensive and fake content targeting the royal institution.

A Tennessee judge has set a $1 million bond for a white livestreamer charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting and wounding a Black man.

Elon Musk announced plans Wednesday for one of the biggest sales of stock to the public ever for his space company that is currently losing billions of dollars year.

Artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia’s quarterly results blew past Wall Street’s expectations once again, fueled by massive demand for its high-end AI chips.

Demand is soaring for Israel's battle-tested weapons and military technology, despite widespread condemnation by rights groups and the international community over the country's conduct in wars, particularly in Gaza.

Climate change is pushing starving gray whales into the San Francisco Bay in unusual numbers, where ship strikes killed at least 40% of the 21 whales found dead last year.

Management and union leaders at Samsung Electronics have failed to reach a last-minute deal over wages.

Google is introducing a range of new AI tools, including an AI assistant called Gemini Spark, which proactively performs tasks for users.

Artificial intelligence has become an unwelcome topic at college commencements.

A biotech company that aims to resurrect lost creatures says it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment.

Malaysia's government is seeking $251 million in compensation from Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace AS after Norway revoked an export permit.

The Cannes Film Festival can function like a global water cooler for movies, with prevailing issues and anxieties of the industry tending to surface at the event.

A federal court on Monday dismissed claims filed against OpenAI and its top executives by Elon Musk, who accused them of betraying a shared vision for it to remain a nonprofit dedicated to guiding artificial intelligence’s development for the good of humanity.

Pope Leo XIV and Anthropic's co-founder Christopher Olah are set to launch the pontiff’s first encyclical on May 25.

The day John Lennon was shot in 1980, he and Yoko Ono gave an interview to a San Francisco radio crew from their home in New York’s Dakota Apartments.

Pope Leo XIV has created a study group on artificial intelligence in a sign of his ongoing concern about the technology.

John Krasinski returning as Jack Ryan in “Jack Ryan: Ghost War” for Prime Video and “Stranger Things” masterminds the Duffer Brothers producing a Netflix show in which a retirement community teams up to battle monsters are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

The METRO Police Department in Houston has introduced a real-time translation system to aid communication during emergencies and major events ahead of the FIFA World Cup.

Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI made their final arguments Thursday in the landmark trial whose outcome could shape the future of artificial intelligence.

Pope Leo XIV has denounced investments in AI and high-tech weaponry, warning they lead to a “spiral of annihilation.”.

Parents across the country who are worried about excessive screen time in schools are lobbying educators to go back to pencils and paper.

Meta Platforms is introducing an "incognito" mode for WhatsApp to allow private conversations with its AI chatbot.

China's Alibaba has reported accelerating AI and cloud revenue growth driven by the AI boom, which has jumped 38% in the January-March quarter compared to the year before.

A rebound for technology stocks led Wall Street to records, even though the majority of U.S. stocks fell following another discouraging update on inflation.

Instructure, the company behind the online learning system Canvas, has reached a deal with hackers to delete data stolen in a cyberattack.

Amazon is rapidly opening store-sized delivery hubs in dozens of U.S. and foreign cities to fulfill customers’ most urgent product needs in 30 minutes or less.

A sudden halt for technology stocks put the brakes on Wall Street's record-setting run.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the witness stand Tuesday to defend his business record in a trial pitting him against Elon Musk, rebutting testimony that disparaged his leadership at a pivotal time for the ChatGPT maker.

Google said Monday that it had disrupted a criminal group’s attempt to use artificial intelligence to exploit another company’s previously unknown digital vulnerability, adding to heightened worries across government and private industry about AI’s risks for cybersecurity.

Oil prices rose as the war with Iran threatens to drag on, but U.S. stocks nevertheless inched to more records.

The coffee might be poured by a human hand, but behind the counter something far less traditional is calling the shots at an experimental cafe in Stockholm.

Google has reached a settlement with Black employees who alleged systemic racial disparities in hiring, pay, and advancement in a lawsuit filed in 2022.

The long-awaited “Yellowstone” spinoff “Dutton Ranch” and a fresh collection from the Colombian superstar Maluma, are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

William Shakespeare's “Hamlet” is having a resurgence with various adaptations and performances worldwide.

U.S. stocks rose to records following the latest sign that the nation’s job market is doing better than economists expected.

A cyberattack has caused chaos for students at thousands of schools as they study for finals.

French prosecutors are seeking charges against Elon Musk and X for child sexual images on the platform, deepfakes, disinformation and complicity in denying crimes against humanity by Grok.

Tech companies are increasingly seeking guidance from faith leaders to shape artificial intelligence.

Tech leaders are betting on a former executive to take the lead in the California governor's race.

The U.S. stock market fell from its records after oil prices yo-yoed.

Ted Turner’s death comes at a fraught time for cable news, which has struggled to retain viewership in an era of countless media choices and abundant streaming video.