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FILE - Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Hur listens during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, March 12, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington.The Justice Department says its concerned that releasing audio of President Joe Biden's interview with a special counsel about his handling of classified documents could lead to deepfakes that trick Americans. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Justice Department’s ‘deepfake’ concerns over Biden interview audio highlights AI misuse worries

The Justice Department says it’s concerned that releasing audio of President Joe Biden’s interview with a special counsel about his handling of classified documents could lead to deepfakes that trick Americans.

FILE - This combination of photos shows logos of X, formerly known as Twitter, top left; Snapchat, top right; Facebook, bottom left; and TikTok, bottom right. Spain’s government has proposed a wide-ranging law to protect children from on-line threats. It includes virtual restraining orders for felons as well as health screens for teenagers to detection emotional disorders derived from the ills of social media. (AP Photo, File)

Spain proposes law to improve online safety for children, including virtual restraining orders

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CEOs made nearly 200 times what their workers got paid last year

FILE - The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone, Oct. 16, 2023, in Sydney. The social media platform X says it will now allow people to show consensual adult content, as long as it is clearly labeled as such. The move formalizes a policy already in place when the platform was known as Twitter, before billionaire Elon Musk purchased it in 2022. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

Musk’s X is allowing users to post consensual adult content, formalizing a prior Twitter policy

FILE - CEO Jensen Huang walks on stage before the keynote address of Nvidia GTC in San Jose, Calif., Monday, March 18, 2024. Nvidia’s stock price has jumped 92% this year as of Wednesday, May 22, increasing the company’s market value by more than $1 trillion. Those numbers are headed higher again Thursday after the company reported better-than-expected quarterly results. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Nvidia’s stock is expensive. A look at why, and how that should change, by the numbers

Artificial Intelligence

FILE — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman participates in a discussion during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit, Nov. 16, 2023, in San Francisco. The U.N. telecommunications agency has kicked off its annual AI for Good conference in hopes of guiding business, consumers and governments on ways to tap the promise of the new technology but avoid its potential perils. OpenAI chief Sam Altman whose company created ChatGPT is among the tech leaders set to join the Geneva event Thursday, May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

OpenAI’s Altman sidesteps questions about governance, Johansson at UN AI summit

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OpenAI forms safety committee as it starts training latest artificial intelligence model

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FILE - Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, Calif., May 14, 2024. Bloopers — some funny, others disturbing — have been shared on social media since Google unleashed a makeover of its search page that frequently puts AI-generated summaries on top of search results. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Cats on the moon? Google’s AI tool is producing misleading responses that have experts worried

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FILE - Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on Thursday, May 16, 2024. China’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s doctrine, in a stark reminder of the ideological parameters that Chinese AI models should abide by. (Sergei Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

China’s latest AI chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s political ideology

Arati Prabhakar, left photo, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Jennifer Klein, Director of the White House Gender Policy Council, are shown in 2023 file photos. Klein and Prabhakar are co-authors of a Thursday announcement calling on the tech industry and financial institutions to commit to new measures to curb the creation of AI-generated nonconsensual sexual imagery. (AP Photo, file)

White House pushes tech industry to shut down market for sexually abusive AI deepfakes

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FILE - President Joe Biden is photographed by participants after delivering a speech commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Democrats wanted an agreement on using artificial intelligence. It went nowhere

As campaigns nationwide experimented with artificial intelligence earlier this year, the Democratic National Committee approached their committees with a request that they sign on to guidelines to use the technology in a “responsible” way.

FILE - This photo provided on Jan. 12, 2019, by the China National Space Administration via Xinhua News Agency shows the lunar lander of the Chang'e-4 probe in a photo taken by the rover Yutu-2 on Jan. 11. China is preparing to launch a lunar probe Friday, May 3, 2024, that would land on the far side of the moon and return with samples that could provide insights into geological and other differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side. (China National Space Administration/Xinhua News Agency via AP, File)

China lands a spacecraft on the moon’s far side to collect rocks for study

A Chinese spacecraft has landed on the moon’s far side to collect soil and rock samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side.

Former President Donald Trump gestures while attending the UFC 302 mixed martial arts event Saturday, June 1, 2024, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Trump joins TikTok and calls it ‘an honor.’ As president he once tried to ban the video-sharing app

Donald Trump has joined TikTok, the video-sharing app he once tried to ban as president. He posted his first video from a UFC fight in New Jersey on Saturday night.

FILE - In this May 11, 2009 file photo, Ticketmaster tickets and gift cards are shown at a box office in San Jose, Calif. Live Nation is investigating a data breach at its Ticketmaster subsidiary, which dominates ticketing for live events in the United States. Live Nation, based in Beverly Hills, Calif., said in a regulatory filing Friday, May 31, 2024, that on May 27 "a criminal threat actor'' offered to sell Ticketmaster data on the dark web. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Live Nation reveals data breach at its Ticketmaster subsidiary

Live Nation is investigating a data breach at its Ticketmaster subsidiary, which dominates ticketing for live events in the United States.

FILE - Ruling party presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, center left, greets supporters at a campaign rally, flanked by mayoral candidate Clara Brugada and Morena party president Mario Delgado, in Mexico City, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Sexist tropes and misinformation swirl online as Mexico prepares to elect its first female leader

As voters in Mexico head to the polls, a flurry of false, sexist and misleading posts on social media are blurring the lines between fact and fiction.

Anett Bommer holds the arm of her husband Michael Bommer, who is terminally ill with colon cancer, during a meeting with The Associated Press at his home in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 22, 2024. Bommer, who has only a few more weeks to live, teamed up with friend who runs the AI-powered legacy platform Eternos to "create a comprehensive, interactive AI version of himself, allowing relatives to engage with his life experiences and insights," after he has passed away. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

AI is imitating the dead and dying, raising new questions about grieving

Several companies have emerged in the last few years to develop grief-related technology, where users can interact with an AI version of the deceased.

An EV charging station is seen Thursday, May 9, 2024, in San Antonio. Many Americans still aren’t sold on going electric for their next car purchase. High prices and a lack of easy-to-find charging stations are major sticking points, a new poll shows. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Many Americans are still shying away from EVs despite Biden’s push, an AP-NORC/EPIC poll finds

Many Americans still aren’t sold on going electric for their next car purchase. A poll shows high prices and a lack of easy-to-find charging stations are major sticking points.

FILE - People line up to use a free public restroom, April 27, 2017, in New York. New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday, June 3, 2024, a plan to build 46 new restrooms and renovate 36 existing ones located in city parks, adding to the city's roughly 1,000 such facilities over the next five years. (AP Photo/Verena Dobnik, File)

New York City is building more public toilets and launching an online locator so you can find them

New York City is not only getting more public toilets, but making them easier to locate using your smartphone.

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CEO pay is rising, widening the gap between top executives and workers. What to know, by the numbers

The typical compensation for CEOs of S&P 500 companies keeps climber higher — and outpacing the wages of average workers today.

GM promotes 2 former Apple executives to key roles in developing software and digital services

General Motors has promoted two former Apple executives to run its software and services operations as it ramps up efforts to develop and market electric, autonomous and connected vehicles.Baris Cetinok was named senior vice president of software and services product management.

How AP and Equilar calculated CEO pay

For its annual analysis of CEO pay, The Associated Press used data provided by Equilar, an executive data firm.

FILE - This combo image shows, from top left; Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden; Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su; Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser; from bottom left; General Motors CEO Mary Barra; and United Parcel Service CEO Carol Tome. Warden, Su, Fraser, Barra, and Tome were the top five highest paid women CEOs in an Associated Press survey. (AP Photo, File)

More women made the list of top paid CEOs in 2023, but their numbers are still small compared to men

More women are reaching the top ranks of the corporate suite of S&P 500 companies, but their numbers are still miniscule compared to their male counterparts.

This combination of photos show promotional art for "Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color," a limited series streaming June 3, left, "The Real Red Tails," streaming June 3, center, and "Criminal Minds: Evolution" streaming June 6. (National Geographic/National Geographic/Paramount+ via AP)

What to stream this week: ‘Hit Man,’ Dakota Johnson, Charli XCX, Star Wars: Hunters and Idris Elba

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Nigerian singer Tems’ debut album, Dakota Johnson plays a woman questioning her sexuality in “AM I OK?”

FILE - Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry speaks during the start of the special session in the House Chamber, Jan. 15, 2024, in Baton Rouge, La. Civil rights attorneys say a new Louisiana law that makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet of a police officer under certain circumstances is an affront to the movement for racial justice and violates the First Amendment. Critics have said the law signed this week by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry could hinder the public’s ability to film officers. (Michael Johnson/The Advocate via AP, Pool, File)

Louisiana law that could limit filming of police hampers key tool for racial justice, attorneys say

Civil rights attorneys say a new Louisiana law that makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet of a police officer under certain circumstances is an affront to the movement for racial justice and violates the First Amendment.

FILE - A sign for the Seattle office of Getty Images stands, Feb. 25, 2008, in Seattle. A former technology executive has pleaded guilty to a single count of fraud involving a scheme to artificially inflate the share price of the stock photo house Getty Images, federal officials said Friday, May 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Former tech exec admits to fraud involving a scheme to boost Getty Images shares, authorities say

Federal officials say a former technology executive has pleaded guilty to fraud involving a scheme to artificially boost the share price of photo and video distributor Getty Images.

The four nuclear reactors and cooling towers are seen at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Friday, May 31, 2024, in Waynesboro, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

US Energy Secretary calls for more nuclear power while celebrating $35 billion Georgia reactors

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is calling for more nuclear reactors to be built in the United States and worldwide.

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

Google said Friday 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.

FILE - Elon Musk arrives at an event in Los Angeles, April 13, 2024. A second shareholder advisory firm late Thursday, May 30, 2024, has come out against reinstating a pay package for Tesla CEO Elon Musk that was voided earlier this year by a Delaware judge. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Elon Musk sees another big advisory firm come out against his multibillion dollar pay package

A second shareholder advisory firm has come out against reinstating a pay package for Tesla CEO Elon Musk that was voided earlier this year by a Delaware judge.

FILE - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, left, Jan Grabiec, chief of staff, center, and newly appointed Minister of Digital Affairs Krzysztof Gawkowski, arrive at the Prime Minister's office in Warsaw, Poland, on Dec. 13, 2023. A fake news report on Poland's national news agency saying that Tusk was mobilizing 200,000 men starting on July 1 was probably the work of Russia-sponsored hackers and was designed to interfere with the upcoming European Parliament election, authorities said. “Everything indicates that we are dealing with a cyberattack directed from the Russian side," said Krzysztof Gawkowski." (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk, File)

Poland says a fake news report on mobilizing 200,000 men was likely the work of Russia

Officials in Poland say that a fake news report saying that Prime Minister Donald Tusk was mobilizing 200,000 men starting on July 1 was probably the work of Russia-sponsored hackers and was designed to interfere with the upcoming European Parliament election.

FILE - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks in the ballroom of Muenster Town Hall, in Muenster, Germany, May 28, 2024. A group that monitors for misinformation found deep problems when it tested the most popular artificial intelligence voice-cloning tools and asked them to create audio of some of the world's leading political figures. (Jana Rodenbusch/Pool Photo via AP)

Tests find AI tools readily create election lies from the voices of well-known political leaders

A new report from a digital civil rights group has found that publicly available artificial intelligence tools can be easily weaponized to churn out convincing election lies in the voices of top American and European politicians.

A page from the Temu website is shown in this photo, in New York, Friday, June 23, 2023. The European Union said Friday, May 31, 2024, that it's adding Chinese online retailer Temu to its list of platforms facing the bloc's highest level of digital scrutiny. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Chinese online retailer Temu latest to face EU’s strictest level of digital scrutiny

The European Union is adding Chinese online retailer Temu to its list of platforms facing the bloc’s highest level of digital scrutiny.

Former President Donald Trump returns to the courthouse moments before hearing that the jury had a verdict in his criminal trial at Manhattan Criminal Court, Thursday, May 30, 2024, in New York. (Justin Lane/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump Media shares swing wildly and then tumble a day after former president was convicted

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, have fallen after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial.

FILE - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. A New Mexico judge has granted Mark Zuckerberg's request to be dropped from a lawsuit that alleges his company has failed to protect young users from exposure to child sexual abuse material.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, file)

New Mexico judge grants Mark Zuckerberg’s request to be dropped from child safety lawsuit

A New Mexico judge has granted Mark Zuckerberg’s request to be dropped from a lawsuit that alleges his company has failed to protect young users on its social media platforms from sexual exploitation.

Former President Donald Trump returns to the courthouse moments before hearing that the jury had a verdict in his criminal trial at Manhattan Criminal Court, Thursday, May 30, 2024, in New York. (Justin Lane/Pool Photo via AP)

Shares in Trump Media slump after former president convicted in hush money trial

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, are slumping before the opening bell after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial.

Amazon gets FAA approval allowing it to expand drone deliveries for online orders

Federal regulators are giving Amazon key permission that will allow it to expand its drone delivery program.

One Tech Tip: Want to turn off Meta AI? You can’t — but there are some workarounds

If you use Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram. you probably noticed a new character pop up — answering search queries, entering your group chats and eagerly offering tidbits of information in your feeds.

FILE - Passengers walk past a couple browsing their smartphones near a China Southern Airlines, parked on the tarmac at the Beijing Capital International Airport Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. China’s Commerce Ministry said Thursday, May 30, 2024, it will restrict exports of aviation and aerospace-related equipment and technology beginning July 1, 2024.(AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China to impose controls on exports of some aviation and aerospace equipment

China’s Commerce Ministry has announced it will restrict exports of some aviation and aerospace-related equipment and technology beginning July 1.

In this photo provided by Malaysia’s Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, center, talks with Ruth Porat, second left, Alphabet Inc.'s president and chief financial officer, in New York, NY., on Sept. 2023. Google pledged Thursday, May 30, 2024, to commit $2 billion in Malaysia, including building its first data center and Google Cloud region in its biggest planned investment in the Southeast Asian country.(Malaysia’s Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry via AP)

Google to invest $2 billion in Malaysian data center and cloud hub

Google plans to invest $2 billion in Malaysia, developing its first data center and a Google Cloud hub in the latest big foray by a U.S. tech giant in the Southeast Asian country.

Authorities arrest man allegedly running ‘likely world’s largest ever’ cybercrime botnet

An international law enforcement team has arrested a Chinese national and disrupted a major botnet that officials said he ran for nearly a decade.

California advances measures targeting AI discrimination and deepfakes

California lawmakers have advanced a host of artificial intelligence proposals that would protect jobs, build public trust, fight algorithmic discrimination, and outlaw deepfakes involving elections or pornography.

The executive director of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, ENISA, Juhan Lepassaar, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Athens, Greece, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. Lepassaar said the Athens-based agency had recorded a sharp rise in cybersecurity incidents in 2024. National and multinational cybersecurity agencies have stepped up activities and exercises globally ahead of elections in the European Union, the United States and other countries (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Europe’s cybersecurity chief says disruptive attacks have doubled in 2024, sees Russia behind many

The top European Union cybersecurity official says that disruptive digital attacks have doubled in the 27-member bloc in recent months and election-related services are also being targeted.

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech at the North’s Academy of Defense Sciences in North Korea, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea flies trash balloons over the South as leader Kim doubles down on satellite ambitions

North Korea has flown hundreds of balloons carrying trash and manure toward South Korea. South Korea’s military has mobilized chemical and explosive response teams to recover objects and debris in different parts of the country.

Ryan Salame, 30, who was a high-ranking executive at FTX for most of the exchange's existence, leaves Federal Court, in New York, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. Salami, the co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets, pleaded guilty to illegally making unlawful U.S. campaign contributions and to operating a unlicensed money transmitting business last year, was sentenced to 7.5-years in prison, plus 3 years of supervised release. (AP Photo/Lawrence Neumeister)

Ryan Salame, part of the ‘inner circle’ at collapsed crypto exchange FTX, sentenced to prison

A federal judge has sentenced former FTX executive Ryan Salame to more than seven years in prison. He is the first of the lieutenants of failed cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried to receive jail time for their roles in the 2022 collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange.

FILE — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman participates in a discussion during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit, Nov. 16, 2023, in San Francisco. The Giving Pledge announced Tuesday, May 28, 2024 that Altman has joined its list of wealthy philanthropists committed to donating over half their fortunes. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pledges to donate most of his wealth

NEW YORK (AP) — The Giving Pledge announced Tuesday that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has joined its list of wealthy philanthropists committed to donating over half their fortunes.

Virginia-based tech firm settles allegations over whites-only job listing

A northern Virginia tech company is paying nearly $40,000 to settle claims it discriminated by posting a job listing seeking white, U.S.