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The Justice Department and Google have wrapped up a three-week hearing that could have a major impact on the search giant and how people gather information online.

The Texas attorney general brought the cases in 2022 under state laws.

On Thursday, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University unveiled LegoGPT, an AI model that creates physically stable Lego structures from text prompts. The new system not only designs Lego models that match text descriptions (prompts) but also ensures they can be built brick by brick in the real world, either by hand or with robotic assistance....

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, said he hired Instacart’s Fidji Simo to join in a new role as chief executive of applications.

The company also predicted that business in the current quarter would be stronger than Wall Street had predicted.

Meta had sued the firm, NSO Group, for using its spyware to hack 1,400 WhatsApp accounts belonging to journalists, dissidents and others.

Artificial intelligence software — some already free on your device — can quickly compose and edit documents. But be sure to check its work.

The discussions follow those of rival OpenAI, which recently closed a funding round that valued it at $300 billion.

Using AI can be a double-edged sword, according to new research from Duke University. While generative AI tools may boost productivity for some, they might also secretly damage your professional reputation. On Thursday, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published a study showing that employees who use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude,...

On Wednesday, OpenAI announced that Instacart CEO Fidji Simo will join the maker of ChatGPT as “CEO of Applications” later this year, according to a company blog post. Simo, who has served on the company’s board since March 2024, will oversee business and operational teams while continuing to report directly to Altman in the newly...