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July 03

How a GOP rift over tech regulation doomed a ban on state AI laws in Trump's tax bill

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
July 03
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., walks to board a bus to the White House with other Senate Republicans for a meeting with President Donald Trump on his spending and tax bill, Wednesday, June 4, 2025, outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
July 03

Company's carbon credits raise questions about unproven ocean technology to fight global warming

A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon capture technology
July 03
FILE - In this photo provided by Gigablue, circular structures called booms containing particles engineered by the company Gigablue, float in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Dunedin, New Zealand, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, as part of a project to grow tiny organisms known as phytoplankton that absorb carbon dioxide from the ocean. (Gigablue via AP, File)
July 02

Astronomers track object that may have originated outside the solar system

Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star system
July 02
FILE - The Milky Way is seen over the Haleakala Observatory and the lights of Kahului, at right, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024 at the summit of Haleakala National Park near Kula, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
July 02

Shriners Children's to open $153M medical research facility in Atlanta

A charitable hospital system say it will open a $153 million medical research facility in Atlanta
July 02
July 02

Australian airline Qantas says customer data stolen by cybercriminal

Australian airline Qantas said that a hacker made off with a trove of customers’ personal data including passenger names, emails, phone numbers, birth dates and frequent flyer numbers
July 02
FILE - A Qantas jet arrives at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)
July 02

Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia
July 02
This photo provided by researchers shows a pottery vessel containing the remains of a man, radiocarbon dated to around 2855–2570 cal BCE, in Nuwayrat, Egypt. (John Garstang, Mahmoud Abd El Gelel/Garstang Museum of Archaeology/University of Liverpool via AP)
July 02

Tesla sales fell 13% in the last three months amid anti-Musk sentiment

Sales of Tesla electric cars fell sharply in the last three months compared to a year earlier as boycotts over Elon Musk’s political views continue to keep buyers away
July 02
FILE - President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speak to reporters as they sit in a red Model S Tesla vehicle on the South Lawn of the White House, March 11, 2025, in Washington. (Pool via AP, File)
July 02

US judge says China's Huawei must face criminal case for racketeering

A U.S. judge has ruled that China's Huawei Technologies, a leading telecoms equipment company, must face criminal charges in a wide reaching case alleging it stole technology and engaged in racketeering, wire and bank fraud and other crimes
July 02
FILE - People visit the Ascend AI exhibition booth by Huawei during the 2024 The World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) & High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance with the theme "Governing AI for Good and for All" at the Shanghai Expo Center Multifunction Hall in Shanghai China on July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
July 02

He pioneered the cellphone, changing how people connect — and disconnect — globally

Martin Cooper changed the world when he pioneered the portable phone
July 02
A woman talks on her mobile phone in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, Sept. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
July 01

The US plans to begin breeding billions of flies to fight a pest

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas
July 01
In this Jan. 2024 photo provided by The Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of Cattle Screwworms (COPEG), a worker drops New World screwworm fly larvae into a tray at a facility that breeds sterile flies in Pacora, Panama. (COPEG via AP)
July 01

Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after uproar from the states

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
July 01
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, stands in an elevator as Republicans begin a final push to advance President Donald Trump's tax breaks and spending cuts package, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
June 30

Judge allows antitrust lawsuit against Apple to proceed

A federal judge has allowed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple to proceed, rejecting the company's request to dismiss the case
June 30
FILE - The Apple logo is illuminated at a store in the city center of Munich, Germany, Dec. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
June 30

Trump vents online about service provider after conference call marred by glitch

President Donald Trump is complaining about technical difficulties he experienced while trying to hold a conference call with faith leaders across the country
June 30
President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters as he meets with Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, and Rwanda's Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe, Friday, June 27, 2025, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
June 30

Way clear for Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14B acquisition of Juniper after Justice Dept settlement

Hewlett Packard Enterprises has reached a settlement with the Justice Department that could clear the way for its $14 billion takeover of rival Juniper Networks
June 30
June 30

NOAA delays the cutoff of key satellite data for hurricane forecasting

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it is delaying by one month the planned cutoff of satellite data that helps forecasters track hurricanes
June 30
FILE - A water rescue boat moves in floodwaters at an apartment complex in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, Oct. 10, 2024, in Clearwater, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
June 30

Trump administration finds Harvard failed to protect Jewish students, threatens to cut all funding

Harvard University failed to protect Jewish students from harassment, the Trump administration concluded after an investigation, threatening to cut all federal funding from the Ivy League school if it fails to take action
June 30
FILE - Students walk through Harvard Yard, April 27, 2022, on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
June 30

GoFundMe is refurbishing financial tool in a bid to supercharge everyday giving

Giving Funds is GoFundMe’s latest in a flurry of product rollouts with the purported goal of moving stagnant U.S. charitable contributions beyond the 2% GDP mark where totals have long hovered
June 30
FILE - GoFundMe Chief Executive Officer Tim Cadogan poses for a photo in Altadena, Calif. on April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
June 29

Photos show how humanoid robots captivate fans in China by playing a soccer match

Humanoid robots have captivated fans in Beijing with a fully autonomous soccer match powered by artificial intelligence. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
June 29
A child stops a shot from the T1 robot from Booster Robotics at a fair ahead of the inaugural RoBoLeague robot soccer competition held in Beijing, Saturday, June 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
June 29

China's humanoid robots generate more soccer excitement than their human counterparts

Humanoid robots have captivated fans in Beijing with a fully autonomous soccer match powered by artificial intelligence
June 29
A child reacts as he watches the inaugural RoBoLeague robot soccer competition in Beijing, Saturday, June 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
June 27

Tech industry group sues Arkansas over new social media laws

A tech industry trade group has sued Arkansas over two new law placing limits on content on social media platforms
June 27
FILE - Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs a bill requiring age verification before creating a new social media account as Sen. Tyler Dees, R-Siloam Springs, looks on during a signing ceremony, Wednesday, April 12, 2023, at the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. (Thomas Metthe/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP, File)
June 27

Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America
June 27
Katie Van Tornhout sits with her son, Cain, at home in Lakeville, Ind., on May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)
June 27

How to protect yourself from ticks year-round

Ticks can be active in any season and experts say it’s important to check for and remove the bloodsuckers as quickly as possible
June 27
FILE - This undated photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a blacklegged tick, also known as a deer tick, a carrier of Lyme disease. (CDC via AP, File)
June 27

Apple revamps EU App Store terms to avert more fines

Apple has moved to revamp its European Union app store policies as it seeks to fend off escalating fines under the 27-nation bloc’s digital competition regulations
June 27
FILE - The Apple logo is displayed at an Apple store, Jan. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
June 26

Brazil’s Supreme Court clears way to hold social media companies liable for user content

Brazil’s Supreme Court agreed on Thursday on details of a decision to hold social media companies liable for what their users post, clearing the way for it go into effect within weeks
June 26
FILE - Lady Justice statue, depicting a seated, blindfolded woman holding a sword, stands outside the Supreme Court in Brasilia, Brazil, Sept. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
June 26
FILE - Health officials prepare to administer a vaccine in the Malawi village of Tomali with the world's first vaccine against malaria in a pilot program in Tomali, Dec. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
June 26

International Space Station welcomes its first astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary

The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary have arrived at the International Space Station, ferried there by SpaceX on a private flight
June 26
This image provided by NASA shows from second left, Poland's Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski, Axiom Space's Peggy Whitson, India's Shubhanshu Shukla and Hungary's Tibor Kapu aboard the International Space Station, Thursday June 26, 2025. (NASA via AP)
June 25

Federal judge sides with Meta in AI copyright case

Federal judge sides with Meta in AI copyright case but leaves door open for similar lawsuits
June 25
June 25

Judge dismisses authors' copyright lawsuit against Meta over AI training

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
June 25
FILE - Meta Chief Product Officer Chris Cox speaks at LlamaCon 2025, an AI developer conference, in Menlo Park, Calif., April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
June 25
SpaceX Falcon 9 crew, Shubhanshu Shukla of the Indian Space Research Organization, from left, Tibor Kapu of Hungary, commander Peggy Whitson, and Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland, pose for a selfie before departing for a launch to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)
June 25

Drone debris found in Ukraine indicates Russia is using new technology from Iran

Last week, Ukrainian drone hunters searching through the debris of Russia's nightly assault on their cities found a drone that was different to the rest
June 25
FILE - Parts of downed Shahed drones launched by Russia are piled in a storage room of a research laboratory in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, file)
June 25

Iranian-backed hackers go to work after US strikes

Hackers backing Iran have targeted U.S. banks, defense contractors and oil industry companies following American strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities
June 25
This Tuesday, June 24, 2025, satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows damage at Fordo enrichment facility after strikes in Iran on June 23. (Maxar Technologies via AP)
June 25

Volunteers use the universal language of music to soothe stressed shelter animals

It is often said music is the universal language of humanity
June 25
Sarah McDonner, a volunteer for Wild Tunes, which aims to soothe stressed shelter animals with live music, plays the flute at the Denver Animal Shelter, on Friday, May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)
June 24

Hackathon teams race to solve defense tech challenges as Europe boosts military capabilities

Defense tech hackathons are attracting engineering students, tech industry workers and hobbyists to solve military challenges
June 24
Participants gather for the London Defence Tech Hackathon, a weekend brainstorming solution for technical challenges, at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Camberley, England, May 10, 2025. (AP Photos/Kelvin Chan)
June 24

Anthropic wins ruling on AI training in copyright lawsuit but must face trial on pirated books

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
June 24
FILE - The Anthropic website and mobile phone app are shown in this photo, in New York, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
June 24

UK antitrust watchdog says Google may have to offer rival search options

The U.K.’s antitrust watchdog says Google could be forced to let British users choose whether to use rival search services, as it proposes using new digital regulations to boost competition
June 24
FILE - A sign is displayed on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif., Sept. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
June 24

Waymo's robotaxis start carrying passengers in Atlanta, expanding Uber partnership

Waymo’s robotaxis will begin carrying passengers through parts of Atlanta Tuesday in an expansion of a partnership with Uber’s ride-hailing service that began earlier this year in Austin
June 24
FILE - Waymo communications manager Julia Ilina stands next to a Waymo driverless taxi in San Francisco, on Feb. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Terry Chea, File)
June 23

Japanese company blames laser tool for its 2nd crash landing on the moon

A Japanese company says a laser navigating tool doomed its lunar lander, causing it to crash into the moon
June 23
This image provided by NASA shows an annotation indicating the impact site for ispace's Resilience lunar lander, seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera on June 11, 2025. (NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University via AP)
June 23

Largest digital camera ever built releases its first glamour shots of the universe

The largest digital camera ever built has released its first shots of the universe
June 23
This image provided by the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory shows a small section of the observatory's total view of the Virgo cluster. (NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory via AP)
June 20

Smart ways to guard your data from online hackers

CNET consumer insights editor Dashia Milden shares tips on what we can do to best protect our online information as hackers seek to cash in.
June 20
VIDEO: Smart ways to guard your data from online hackers
June 20

How AI will impact the future of the American workforce

Axios chief technology correspondent Ina Fried joined ABC News Live to discuss the impact artificial intelligence is having on the U.S. workforce.
June 20
VIDEO: How AI will impact the future of the American workforce
June 20

Aflac says cyberattack breach could expose customers’ data

Aflac, which boasts millions of customers, said it “identified suspicious activity” and “stopped the intrusion within hours.”
June 20
Aflac, which boasts millions of customers, said it “identified suspicious activity” and “stopped the intrusion within hours.”
June 19

Astrophysicist reacts to SpaceX rocket exploding during testing in Texas

Astrophysicist Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi on SpaceX's Starship 36 exploding during a routine static fire test just after 11 p.m. local time on Wednesday night in Texas.
June 19
VIDEO: Astrophysicist reacts to SpaceX rocket exploding during testing in Texas