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FuboTV files lawsuit over ESPN, Fox, Hulu, Warner Bros. Discovery sports-streaming venture

Streaming service FuboTV has filed an antitrust lawsuit against ESPN, Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery and Hulu, which are planning to launch a sports-streaming venture in the fall.

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Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer discusses the current tech scene from vantage point of her AI startup

Walmart to acquire smart TV maker Vizio for $2.3 billion in bid to boost its advertising business

A TV screen shows the front page of LockBit's dark-web leak site that was replaced with the words "this site is now under control of law enforcement," alongside the flags of the U.K., the U.S. and several other nations during the law enforcement press conference to outline the details of a law enforcement operation against the ransomware syndicate LockBit in London, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Law-enforcement agencies said they infiltrated and disrupted LockBit, arresting two people involved with the prolific ransomware syndicate that has extracted $120 million from thousands of victims around the world. (AP Photo/Kelvin Chan)

Ransomware group LockBit is disrupted by a global police operation that includes 2 arrests

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, listens to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin says Russia has no intention of putting nuclear weapons in space, denying US claims

Artificial Intelligence

A Microsoft data center is seen near Interstate 35, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, in West Des Moines, Iowa. Microsoft has been amassing a cluster of data centers to power its cloud computing services for more than a decade. Its fourth and fifth data centers in the city are due to open later this year. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water

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MATT O’BRIEN, HANNAH FINGERHUT

A portion of a Opera page showing the incorporation of AI technology is shown in London, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. The rise of generative AI chatbots is giving people new and different ways to look up information. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

One Tech Tip: Ready to go beyond Google? Here’s how to use new generative AI search sites

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Sora is ChatGPT maker OpenAI’s new text-to-video generator. Here’s what we know about the new tool

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WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS, MATT O’BRIEN

Taiwan chipmaker TSMC stock surges after Morgan Stanley raises price target on Nvidia

OpenAI reveals Sora, a tool to make instant videos from written prompts

Google antitrust trial

FILE - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks, Feb. 7, 2023, in Redmond, Wash. Nadella says unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine. Nadella's comments came in a landmark antitrust trial against Google’s parent company, Alphabet. He told a packed Washington, D.C., courtroom Monday, Oct. 2, 2023 that Google’s actions weakened Microsoft’s search engine Bing. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear, file)

Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine

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FILE - A cursor moves over Google's search engine page, Aug. 28, 2018, in Portland, Ore. On Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, a top Apple executive defended the tech giant’s decision to make Google the default search engine on Apple iPhones and Macs, saying there was no “valid alternative.’’ (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

Apple exec defends the decision to make Google its default search engine on iPhones and Macs

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PAUL WISEMAN

DuckDuckGo founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg walks from the U.S. Federal Courthouse, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023 in Washington. Weinberg testified Thursday that Google's deals with phone companies and equipment manufacturers make it hard for his company to compete. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

DuckDuckGo founder says Google’s phone and manufacturing partnerships thwart competition

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FILE - The Google sign hands over an entrance to the company's new building, Sept. 6, 2023, in New York. Search giant Google has agreed to a $93 million settlement with the state of California on Thursday, Sept. 14, over the its location-privacy practices. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)

California settles with Google over location privacy practices for $93 million

The Google sign is shown over an entrance to the company's new building in New York on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. The U.S. government is taking aim at what has been an indomitable empire: Google’s ubiquitous search engine and the lucrative digital services hatched by its unwavering status as the internet’s main gateway. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

Leaving Google’s search engine isn’t easy, government witness says in antitrust case

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PAUL WISEMAN

The Google sign is shown over an entrance to the company's new building in New York on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. The U.S. government is taking aim at what has been an indomitable empire: Google’s ubiquitous search engine and the lucrative digital services hatched by its unwavering status as the internet’s main gateway. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

Google exploited exclusive search engine deals to maintain its advantage over rivals, DOJ argues

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PAUL WISEMAN, MICHAEL LIEDTKE

The Google sign is shown over an entrance to the company's new building in New York on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. The U.S. government is taking aim at what has been an indomitable empire: Google’s ubiquitous search engine and the lucrative digital services hatched by its unwavering status as the internet’s main gateway. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

Google’s search engine dominance is at the center of the biggest US antitrust trial in decades

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Voice actor Sarah Elmaleh poses for a photo in Los Angeles on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Recent years marked a golden age for making an acting career in video games, but now some studios are looking to use artificial intelligence to clone actors' voices. Voice actors like Elmaleh, who played the Cube Queen in Fortnite, are taking a cautious approach to making sure such arrangements can help actors rather than replace them. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Some video game actors are letting AI clone their voices. They just don’t want it to replace them

Video game studios pay professional actors to voice the soldiers, goblins, elves and aliens that populate virtual worlds.

Retired Army Col. Farrell Patrick, 91, wears a Mynd Immersive virtual reality headset at John Knox Village, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, in Pompano Beach, Fla. John Knox Village was one of 17 senior communities around the country that participated in a recently published Stanford University study that found that large majorities of 245 participants between 65- and 103-years-old enjoyed virtual reality, improving both their emotions and their interactions with staff. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

‘Soaring’ over hills or ‘playing’ with puppies, study finds seniors enjoy virtual reality

Even seniors like virtual reality, whether it is flying in a plane, soaring over mountains or playing with puppies.

FILE - This photo shows the Globalfoundries campus on Sept. 22, 2014, in Malta, N.Y. The Biden administration said Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, that the government would provide $1.5 billion to the computer chip company GlobalFoundries to expand its domestic production in New York and Vermont. The announcement is the third award of financial support for a semiconductor company under the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act. (John Carl D'Annibale/The Albany Times Union via AP, File)

Biden admin providing $1.5 billion to GlobalFoundries to make computer chips in New York and Vermont

The Biden administration says that the government would provide $1.5 billion to the computer chip company GlobalFoundries to expand its domestic production in New York and Vermont.

What to stream this week: ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender,’ ‘Priscilla’ and Dolly Parton’s puppies

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include albums from MGMT and Allie X, “Avatar: The Last Airbender” gets the live-action treatment from Netflix and the seventh and final season begins of the hospital drama “The Good Doctor.”

CORRECTS SENTENCE TO UP TO 30 YEARS, NOT 60 YEARS - Defendant Ruby Franke looks on during court Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, in St. George, Utah. Franke, a Utah mother of six who gave parenting advice to millions via a once-popular a YouTube channel, shared a tearful apology to her children for physically and emotionally abusing them before a judge sentenced her to serve up to 30 years in prison, due to a Utah state law that caps the sentence duration for consecutive penalties. (Sheldon Demke/St. George News via AP, Pool)

YouTube mom Ruby Franke apologizes at sentencing in child abuse case

A judge has sentenced parenting advice blogger Ruby Franke to possibly decades in prison after she admitted to physically and emotionally abusing her children.

South Korean Air Force's Black Eagles aerobatic team performs during the first day of the Singapore Airshow in Singapore, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Singapore Airshow kicks off with aerial displays; Boeing and China’s COMAC announce new orders

The Singapore Airshow – Asia’s largest – kicks off Tuesday with an array of aerial displays including some by China’s COMAC C919 narrow-body airliner.

FILE - In this file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, staff members work in an inflatable COVID-19 testing lab provided by Chinese biotech company BGI Genomics, a subsidiary of BGI Group, in Beijing, June 23, 2020. Members of Congress are raising alarms about what they see as America's failure to compete with China in biotechnology, with risks to U.S. national security and commercial interests. But as the countries' rivalry expands into the biotech industry, some say that shutting out Chinese companies would only hurt the U.S. (Chen Zhonghao/Xinhua via AP, File)

US rivalry with China expands to biotech. Lawmakers see a failure to compete and want to act

U.S. lawmakers are raising alarms about what they see as America’s failure to compete with China in biotechnology.

Ex-YouTube CEO’s son dies at UC Berkeley campus, according to officials, relative

University officials and a relativfe say the son of a former YouTube executive died last week at the UC Berkeley campus where he resided.

FILE - Supporters of Issue 1, the Right to Reproductive Freedom amendment, attend a rally in Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 8, 2023. Some state governments and a federal agency are moving to block companies from selling geolocation data that shows who's been to abortion providers, among other places. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana, File)

Some states are trying to protect health care data so it isn’t used against people seeking abortions

State governments across the U.S. are adopting or considering laws that would block the sale of personal health data or information about who visits sensitive sites such as sexual health facilities.

Ukrainian man pleads guilty in cyberattack that temporarily disrupted major Vermont hospital

The U.S. Department of Justice says a Ukrainian man has pleaded guilty to involvement in two separate malware schemes, including a cyberattack that temporarily shut down some vital services at a major hospital in Vermont.

Amazon argues that national labor board is unconstitutional, joining SpaceX and Trader Joe’s

Amazon is arguing in a legal filing that the 88-year-old National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional.

Sheriff says Tennessee man tried to enroll at Michigan school to meet minor

Authorities say a 21-year-old Tennessee man traveled to Michigan and tried to enroll at a high school after meeting a minor online.

NFL wide receiver Puka Nacua celebrates during the second half of the NBA basketball All-Star Celebrity Game, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

NBA talks about the role of AI at annual All-Star weekend tech summit

The NBA has used artificial intelligence for some time. It helps the league generate highlights in real time, gives referees assistance when determining if goaltending occurred, translates play-by-play into multiple languages and even powers the league’s app.

People gather during a protest at Heroes' Square in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, Feb 16, 2024. Protesters demand a change in the country's political culture after the conservative head of state resigned amid scandal over a presidential pardon. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

Online influencers lead thousands demanding change in Hungary following president’s resignation

Some of Hungary’s best-known online personalities have led a crowd of at least 10,000 protesters to demand a change in the country’s political culture.

FILE - Meta's president of global affairs Nick Clegg speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 18, 2024. Adobe, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, TikTok and other companies are gathering at the Munich Security Conference on Friday to announce a new voluntary framework for how they will respond to AI-generated deepfakes that deliberately trick voters. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Tech companies sign accord to combat AI-generated election trickery

Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to prevent artificial intelligence tools from disrupting democratic elections worldwide.

FILE - This photo shows the mobile phone app logos for, from left, Facebook and Instagram in New York, Oct. 5, 2021. The European Union is expanding its strict digital rulebook on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024 to almost all online platforms in the bloc, in the next phase of its crackdown on toxic social media content and dodgy ecommerce products that began last year by targeting the most popular services. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)

The European Union expands digital crackdown on toxic content, dodgy goods to all online platforms

The European Union is expanding its strict digital rulebook to almost all online platforms in the bloc.

FILE - Fans sit under a TikTok ad at a baseball game at Yankee Stadium, April 14, 2023, in New York. President Joe Biden's campaign is embracing TikTok to court younger voters ahead of the U.S. presidential elections, but U.S. adults seem to be split about whether the video-sharing app should even operate in the country. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Americans divided on TikTok ban even as Biden campaign joins the app, AP-NORC poll shows

President Joe Biden’s campaign is embracing TikTok to court younger voters ahead of the presidential elections, but U.S. adults have mixed views about whether the video-sharing app should even operate in the country.

Microsoft is making 4 exclusive Xbox video games available to rival consoles

Several exclusive Xbox games will be soon making their way to rival consoles. That’s according an announcement Thursday by the video gaming brand and its parent company, Microsoft.

FILE - The exterior of the Pennsylvania Judicial Center, home to the Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 21, 2023. A weekend cyberattack on the website of Pennsylvania's state courts agency disabled some online systems but did not appear to compromise any data and didn't stop the courts from opening Monday, Feb. 5, 2024, officials said. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Pennsylvania courts say no ransom was paid in cyberattack, and attackers never sent a demand

Pennsylvania’s state courts agency says it never received a ransom demand as part of a cyberattack that briefly shut down some of its online services earlier this month and prompted a federal investigation.

Scout Motors shows off one of its older gasoline powered models at a ceremony to celebrate the start of construction of its new electric SUV, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in Blythewood, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

Volkswagen-backed Scout Motors, in nod to past, toasts start of construction of electric SUV plant

Volkswagen Group-backed Scout Motors is celebrating the start of construction on its $2 billion electric SUV plant in South Carolina.

Company plans $344 million Georgia factory to make recycled glass for solar panels

A company that recycles solar panels says it will build a $344 million factory in northwest Georgia to make new glass for panels.

FILE - Elon Musk appears at an event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, on Nov. 2, 2023. Musk is looking to move the legal home of SpaceX to Texas from Delaware after a judge in that state voided the billionaire's $55.8 billion Tesla pay package. A certificate of conversion for Space Exploration Technologies Corp. was filed to reincorporate in Texas from Delaware, which became effective on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool, File)

Musk pushes forward on transfer of legal home for SpaceX from Delaware, to Texas

Elon Musk is looking to move the legal home of SpaceX to Texas from Delaware after a judge in that state voided the billionaire’s $55.8 billion Tesla pay package.

Waymo issues recall after 2 of its vehicles strike the same pickup truck

Waymo is issuing a recall for the first time due to a software concern after two of its self-driving vehicles hit the same pickup truck that was being towed.

Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and Vice Chair and President of Microsoft Corporation Brad Smith shake hands in Berlin, `Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, after a press conference held by Microsoft Deutschland GmbH on the company's investments in the AI sector in Germany. Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomed an announcement by Microsoft on Thursday that it would invest more than 3.2 billion euros ($3.4 billion) in Germany over the next two years to massively expand its data center capacities for applications in the field of artificial intelligence and cloud computing. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

German chancellor welcomes Microsoft’s $3.5 billion AI investment in Germany

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed an announcement by Microsoft that it would invest almost 3.3 billion euros, or about $3.5 billion, in Germany over the next two years to massively expand its data center capacities for applications in the field of artificial intelligence and cloud computing.

GM is nearly doubling the road miles where drivers can use its partially automated driving system

General Motors is adding about 350,000 miles, or about 563,000 kilometers, of roadways in the U.S and Canada to the area where drivers can use the company’s “Super Cruise” partially automated driving system.

New York City files a lawsuit saying social media is fueling a youth mental health crisis

New York City, its schools and public hospital system are suing the tech giants that run Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube.

FILE - An exterior view of Cisco Systems Inc. headquarters, May 9, 2012, in Santa Clara, Calif. On Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, internet networking pioneer Cisco Systems announced that more than 4,000 employees are being laid off, joining the parade of technology companies in a trend that has helped boost their profits and stock prices while serving as a sobering reminder job insecurity in the dawning age of artificial intelligence. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Cisco Systems to lay off more than 4,000 workers in latest sign of tighter times in tech

Internet networking pioneer Cisco Systems is jettisoning more than 4,000 employees. It’s the latest to join the parade of technology companies in a job-cutting trend that has helped boost their profits and stock prices.

FILE - The icon for the dating app Tinder appears on a device, July 28, 2020, in New York. Tinder, Hinge and other dating apps are designed with addictive features that encourage “compulsive” use, a proposed class action lawsuit against parent company Match Group claims. The lawsuit filed Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, says Match intentionally designs its dating platforms with game-like features that “lock users into a perpetual pay-to-play loop” prioritizing profit over promises to help users find relationships. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

How dating apps turn love seekers into addicts, according to a new lawsuit

Tinder, Hinge and other dating apps are designed with addictive features that encourage compulsive use.

GM is nearly doubling the road miles where drivers can use its partially automated driving system

General Motors is adding about 350,000 miles, or about 563,000 kilometers, of roadways in the U.S and Canada to the area where drivers can use the company’s “Super Cruise” partially automated driving system.

FILE - The icon for the video sharing TikTok app is seen on a smartphone, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, in Marple Township, Pa. A GOP legislative effort to prevent Virginia children from using the popular video-sharing app TikTok — an idea backed by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin — died this week in the Democratic-controlled Legislature. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Proposed TikTok ban for kids fails in Virginia’s Legislature

A GOP legislative effort to prevent Virginia children from using the video-sharing app TikTok died this week in the Democratic-controlled Legislature.

FILE - Lurie Children's Hospital sign is seen at the hospital as patients walk in, Feb. 5, 2024, in Skokie, Ill. A cyberattack on a renowned children’s hospital in Chicago has left some parents scrambling. They've had to reschedule surgeries on babies or scramble to get prescriptions filled for their sick kids. Experts warn this is just the start of a growing trend of foreign criminals attacking U.S. hospitals for hefty ransoms. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Cyberattacks on hospitals are likely to increase, putting lives at risk, experts warn

Cybersecurity experts are warning that hospitals around the United States are at risk for attacks such as the one that’s crippling operations at a premier Midwestern children’s hospital.

FILE - Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant is shown Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, in Waynesboro, Ga. The electric utility said on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024 that its second new reactor has begun splitting atoms. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Second new Georgia reactor begins splitting atoms in key step to making electricity

A nuclear power plant in Georgia has begun splitting atoms in the second of its two new reactors, in a key step toward providing carbon-free electricity.

Lyft shares rocket 62% over a typo in the company’s earnings release

Lyft shares jumped 62% after the bell Tuesday thanks in part to a typo in the ride-hailing company’s earnings release that sent investors’ auto-trading algorithms — also known as “bots” — into a buying frenzy.

Manuel and Patricia Oliver, the parents of Joaquin Oliver, one of the victims of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., sit for an interview in Coral Springs, Fla., on Friday Feb. 9, 2024. The Olivers are launching a campaign where re-created voices of gun violence victims will call federal lawmakers. The recordings re-creating voices of victims from around the country are being robocalled to U.S. senators and House members who oppose stricter gun laws. (AP Photo/Cody Jackson)

They died from gun violence. Now NRA-supporting lawmakers are getting phone calls from their voices

The family of a teen murdered at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is launching a campaign where re-created voices of gun violence victims will call federal lawmakers.