NASA races to save Swift telescope from falling back to Earth

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.

OpenAI limits its latest ChatGPT product to Trump-approved customers

ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Friday it is restricting the release of its new artificial intelligence model at the request of President Donald Trump’s administration, the latest in an unprecedented government vetting of AI products for cybersecurity risks.

Apple increases prices for Macs and iPads, blaming a shortage of memory chips

Apple on Thursday announced an increase in prices for Macs and iPads, citing a memory chip shortage brought on by the artificial intelligence boom. The Cupertino, California-based company called the demand spike an “unprecedented challenge” for the consumer electronics industry.

Australia plans to strengthen laws banning children from social media

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – The Australian government plans to strengthen laws that ban children younger than 16 from social media platforms. Observers said on Friday the government was responding to evidence that the ban on young children holding accounts on platforms including Facebook, Instagram and YouTube had failed.

Designing spacesuits for future Artemis moon landings

Designing spacesuits for future Artemis moon landings

Tech entrepreneurs seeking the next AI frontier are pivoting from chatbots to 'world models'

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Computer scientist Louis Castricato was in his eighth year studying large language models – the artificial intelligence technology behind chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude – when he started to feel like he was hitting a dead end.

Americans are inundated with suspected scams. Few victims report them

WASHINGTON (AP) – Most Americans are inundated with scam attempts on a daily basis – and about 3 in 10 have personally lost money or personal information to scams, according to a new AP-NORC survey.

Snap sued over rape of minor who connected to adult attacker on Snapchat

The parents of a girl who was raped when she was 12 years old by an adult stranger she met on Snapchat have sued its parent company, Snap, and the attacker in Missouri state court.

AI is plowing through the workplace. This new group wants to help people adapt.

WASHINGTON (AP) – America has been rushing into an artificial intelligence future without much of a plan to stop what could be catastrophic job losses.