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The Cannes Film Festival can function like a global water cooler for movies, with prevailing issues and anxieties of the industry tending to surface at the event

Pope Leo XIV and Anthropic's co-founder Christopher Olah are set to launch the pontiff’s first encyclical on May 25

Officials say all four crew members ejected safely after two Navy jets collided and crashed during an air show at a military base in Idaho

John Krasinski returning as Jack Ryan in “Jack Ryan: Ghost War” for Prime Video and “Stranger Things” masterminds the Duffer Brothers producing a Netflix show in which a retirement community teams up to battle monsters are some of the new television, f...

Social media CEOs have been called to testify before Congress amid growing pressure to protect young users

Elon Musk's social media platform X is pledging to crack down on hate and terrorist content in Britain

Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI began closing arguments Thursday in the landmark trial whose outcome could shape the future of artificial intelligence

A NASA spacecraft chasing a rare metal asteroid is swinging past Mars for a gravity boost

Pope Leo XIV has denounced investments in AI and high-tech weaponry, warning they lead to a “spiral of annihilation.”

Parents across the country who are worried about excessive screen time in schools are lobbying educators to go back to pencils and paper

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands of years ago

Meta Platforms is introducing an "incognito" mode for WhatsApp to allow private conversations with its AI chatbot

Japanese technology investor Softbank Group says profits for the fiscal year through March zoomed by nearly five-fold as its AI investments paid off

Asian shares are trading mixed, as the enthusiasm over AI and other technology stocks gradually faded, braking Wall Street’s record-setting run

A sanctuary on the outskirts of Congo's capital of Kinshasa is the world’s only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos, usually rescued from poachers

Neil deGrasse Tyson has turned his lifelong fascination with aliens into a new book, “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter.”

Greece’s defense minister has confirmed that a military sea drone discovered on a Greek island last week is Ukrainian built

Instructure, the company behind the online learning system Canvas, has reached a deal with hackers to delete data stolen in a cyberattack

Asian shares are trading mixed as optimism encouraged by a record rally on Wall Street clashed with pessimism over oil prices and a potential AI bubble

In a trial featuring a clash between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, neither of the tech titans has emerged as an overly sympathetic character

Workers at a five-star hotel fold napkins and wipe silverware with body cameras recording their every move

Oil prices are rising as the war with Iran threatens to drag on for longer, but U.S. stocks are nevertheless inching toward more records

Google said Monday that it had disrupted a criminal group’s attempt to use artificial intelligence to exploit another company’s previously unknown digital vulnerability, adding to heightened worries across government and private industry about AI’s ris...

The coffee might be poured by a human hand, but behind the counter something far less traditional is calling the shots at an experimental cafe in Stockholm

The long-awaited “Yellowstone” spinoff “Dutton Ranch” and a fresh collection from the Colombian superstar Maluma, are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you

The head of the World Health Organization is seeking to reassure residents of the Spanish island of Tenerife worried about the anticipated arrival there of a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship

Google has reached a settlement with Black employees who alleged systemic racial disparities in hiring, pay, and advancement in a lawsuit filed in 2022

Schools and universities across the country are recovering from an outage tied to a cyberattack that knocked down Canvas

The Pentagon has begun releasing files on UFOs, tapping into public curiosity about unidentified phenomena

Countries are preparing to manage 140 people on a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands

Spanish authorities are preparing to receive over 140 passengers and crew from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands

Nintendo has reported its annual profit surged 52% from the previous year, lifted by solid sales of its Switch 2 machines and software

Seasonal models are predicting an El Nino climate pattern that could be the strongest on record, bringing with it more extreme weather

U.S. stocks rose to records following the latest sign that the nation’s job market is doing better than economists expected

A spiral galaxy's brilliant heart outshines everything within sight in a new picture from NASA's Webb Space Telescope

Toyota has reported a 19% drop in its annual profit as President Donald Trump’s tariffs hurt its earnings, though its global sales grew

Health officials in several countries are trying to identify and follow people who may have been exposed to hantavirus on a cruise ship

A cyberattack has caused chaos for students at thousands of schools as they study for finals

Tech companies are increasingly seeking guidance from faith leaders to shape artificial intelligence

Spring cleaning isn't just for homes

Questions about the dangers of artificial intelligence have been looming over the trial pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Wall Street rose modestly and oil prices fell another 3% while markets waited to see if the U.S. and Iran would strike a deal allowing tankers to deliver crude from the Persian Gulf again

Tech leaders are betting on a former executive to take the lead in the California governor's race

Oceanwide Expeditions reveals that 29 passengers disembarked from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak on April 24

Tokyo's share benchmark Nikkei 225 jumps 5.7% on hopes for progress in reopening the Strait of Hormuz

Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam have donated $12.5 million toward blood cancer research and treatment

Apple has agreed to a $250 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit over false advertising of Siri's AI capabilities

Kelp, a kind of seaweed, can be used in biofuels that one day could power ships and aircraft

Markets on Wall Street soared overnight and U.S. crude prices plunged 13% after China’s foreign minister called for a comprehensive ceasefire in the Iran war, the latest spark of optimism that the two-month war could end soon

Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow are suing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for copyright infringement

Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and CEO Sam Altman’s top lieutenant, disclosed in court Monday that his stake in the artificial intelligence company is worth nearly $30 billion

Another severe wildfire season is forecast for the Western U.S. due to record-breaking heat and an abysmal snowpack

Shares of eBay are soaring before the opening bell after Ryan Cohen's GameStop announced an attempt to take over the company for about $56 billion, seeing it as a vehicle to compete with online retail giant Amazon