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President Donald Trump pauses while speaking during an announcement about Apple with Apple CEO Tim Cook in the Oval Office, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

President Donald Trump’s planned 100% computer chip tariff sparks confusion among businesses and trading partners

August 7, 2025 at 12:34 p.m.

President Donald Trump’s plans for 100% tariffs on computer chips that aren’t made in the U.S. are stoking confusion among businesses and trading partners — boosting stocks for leading semiconductor...

White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks speaks as President Donald Trump listens at an event for the signing of the GENIUS Act, a bill that regulates stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency, in the East Room of the White House, Friday, July 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

From tech podcasts to policy: President Donald Trump’s new AI plan leans heavily on Silicon Valley industry ideas

July 23, 2025 at 7:27 a.m.

An artificial intelligence agenda that started coalescing on the podcasts of Silicon Valley billionaires is now being forged into U.S. policy.

Microsoft to lay off about 3% of its workforce

May 13, 2025 at 1:30 p.m.

Microsoft began laying off nearly 3% of its entire workforce Tuesday, its largest mass layoff in more than two years.

FILE – Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property oversight hearing of the United States Copyright Office, Nov. 13, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, file)

Trump administration fires top copyright official days after firing Librarian of Congress

May 11, 2025 at 1:06 p.m.

The Trump administration has fired the nation’s top copyright official, Shira Perlmutter, days after abruptly terminating the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U.S. Copyright Office.

OpenAI’s legal battle with Elon Musk reveals internal turmoil over avoiding AI ‘dictatorship’

December 13, 2024 at 4:25 p.m.

A 7-year-old rivalry between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and prevent an artificial intelligence “dictatorship” is now heading to a federal judge.

FILE – The seal on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building is seen June 9, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

FBI, Justice Department investigating racist mass texts sent following the election

November 8, 2024 at 6:49 p.m.

Several federal and state agencies are investigating how racist mass texts were sent to Black people across the country in the wake of the presidential election this week.

FILE – Liz Reid, Google head of Search, speaks at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, Calif., May 14, 2024. Google said on Friday, May 31, 2024, it has made “more than a dozen technical improvements” to its artificial intelligence systems after its retooled search engine was found spitting out erroneous information. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Google makes fixes to AI-generated search summaries after outlandish answers went viral

May 31, 2024 at 9:45 p.m.

The tech company unleashed a makeover of its search engine in mid-May that frequently provides AI-generated summaries on top of search results.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Senators urge $32 billion in emergency spending on artificial intelligence after finishing yearlong review

May 15, 2024 at 9:45 p.m.

A bipartisan group of senators is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and put safeguards around it.

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