The icon for the video sharing TikTok app is seen on a smartphone, Feb. 28, 2023, in Marple Township, Pa. Matt Slocum/AP hide caption
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SAG-AFTRA members picket outside Paramount Studios in 2023. Members of the union were on strike between July and November during negotiations with Hollywood film and television studios. Now, the focus is on video games. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Va., was diagnosed with a degenerative neurological disorder last year that has inhibited her mobility and hampered her voice. On July, 25 she debuted the use of an AI tool built to mirror her own voice in a speech on the House floor. House Television hide caption
The new album Bando Stone & the New World, billed as a soundtrack to a coming film, revives some of the anarchic spirit of Donald Glover's earliest work as Childish Gambino. Pavielle Garcia/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
The Instagram logo is seen on a cellphone. Michael Dwyer/AP hide caption
Visitors watch Jesus VR: The Story of Christ during the 73rd Venice Film Festival in 2016. Andreas Rentz/Getty Images hide caption
Many tech entrepreneurs have long suggested that guaranteed income could cushion job losses from artificial intelligence and automation. The latest and largest study of the idea was spearheaded by Sam Altman, the man behind ChatGPT. Michael Dwyer/AP hide caption
As new tech threatens jobs, Silicon Valley promotes no-strings cash aid
Sun Kai, the co-founder of Silicon Intelligence, speaks with an AI avatar of his late mother whenever he feels stressed at work. Aowen Cao/NPR hide caption
Chinese companies offer to 'resurrect' dead loved ones. It raises questions
Passengers line up at London's Gatwick Airport amid a global IT outage on Friday. Jack Taylor/Getty Images hide caption
Microsoft, which hosts cloud services with businesses and governments, said it was grappling with service outages after a glitch triggered by software distributed by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. Haven Daley/AP hide caption
Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio shakes hands with former President Donald Trump during a rally in Delaware, Ohio in 2023. Vance has ties to tech billionaires who are endorsing his vice presidential nomination. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
The best games of 2024
Elon Musk says he will fight charges of violating Europe's Digital Services Act. Musk during a visit at the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair in Paris, on June 16, 2023 and (R) the new Twitter logo rebranded as X, pictured on a screen in Paris on July 24, 2023. Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Researchers found that AI could increase the creativity of individual writers, but it also led to many similar stories. Moor Studio/Getty Images hide caption
AT&T announced Friday that hackers stole 2022 data of “nearly all” of its cellular customers off the company's workspace on a third-party cloud platform. Pau Barrena/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Google Vice President Majd Bakar speaks on-stage during an annual conference in San Francisco with the back drop of a massive data center. Josh Edelson/Getty Images hide caption
Palmer Luckey, 31, founder of Anduril Industries, stands in front of the Dive-LD, an autonomous underwater drone at company headquarters in Costa Mesa, Calif. Anduril recently won a U.S. Navy contract to build 200 of them annually. Philip Cheung for NPR/NPR hide caption
This U.S. company is helping arm Ukraine against Russia — with AI drones
Valerii Plotnikov (left) from the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha, Yakutsk, Russia, and Daniel Fisher of the University of Michigan examine a woolly mammoth unearthed during a 2018 expedition. Love Dalén hide caption
Russian state broadcaster RT broadcasting from near Red Square during the 2018 World Cup in Moscow. The Justice Department alleges an RT employee was behind an AI-powered effort to create fake social media profiles of Americans to spread Russian propaganda in the U.S. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images hide caption
A Pennsylvania school district is grappling with the fallout caused after middle school students created fake TikTok accounts to impersonate their teachers and post lewd and offensive messages. Getty Images hide caption
Scarlett Lanzas, second from right, and other information navigators do an exercise in which they use orange string to symbolize how communities are interconnected, at a Nov. 8, 2023, orientation for a pilot project on combating bad information. Keyvan Antonio Heydari hide caption
Project in Florida uses community messengers to connect immigrants with credible info
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday put two social media laws on hold, sending the Texas and Florida cases back to lower courts for more review. Both laws sought to regulate social media platforms. Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images hide caption
An image of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis is unveiled during his beatification ceremony at the St. Francis Basilica in Assisi, Italy, in October 2020. Gregorio Borgia/AP hide caption