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For years, ambitious students eager to make their mark in Silicon Valley pursued degrees such as computer science, software engineering and data analytics—formerly dependable pathways that, in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), have turned precarious. In an unexpected turn, however, at least one degree is now translating into high-profile jobs across the industry: philosophy. As leading AI firms race to cement their dominance, they are also grappling with the complexities of developing and releasing powerful systems with opaque inner workings.

We're living through the most disorienting societal moment since World War II.

The Federal Trade Commission will require Cox Media Group (CMG) and two smaller marketing firms to pay a total of $930,000 to settle allegations they deceived customers by falsely claiming to offer an AI-powered service that could target localized ads based on conversations captured from consumers’ smart devices and that consumers had opted into such targeting. In three separate complaints, the FTC alleged that Georgia-based media and marketing company CMG Media Corporation, which does business as Cox M

Magnifica Humanitas ("The Grandeur of Humanity") is Pope Leo XIV's first social encyclical, addressed to Catholics and "all men and women of goodwill," on the challenge of safeguarding human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence (AI).

Google's overhaul of the search bar washes away one of the last vestiges of the internet's halcyon era—when search tools felt empowering, social media and swiping were

The deadline for companies to help remove AI-generated pornography under the Take It Down Act passed this week, but advocates say companies will have to be taken to court to secure strong implementation.

Meta Platforms reached a settlement with a Kentucky school district over accusations that social-media companies intentionally designed their platforms to addict young people, becoming the last major platform to resolve the case and avert a coming trial. The settlement spares the companies from a June jury trial that was poised to be the first among more than 1,200 lawsuits brought by school districts alleging student mental-health harms caused by Meta, TikTok, Snap, and Alphabet’s YouTube.

Google is trying to pull off one of the trickiest balancing acts in tech: aggressively disrupting its own products with AI while protecting the businesses that generate tens of billions in profit. Unlike OpenAI and Anthropic, Google enters the AI race with enormous scale, distribution and cash flow—but also a vast empire it has to defend.

Since its earliest days back in office, the Trump administration has been going after researchers who study and try to counter hate speech, harassment, propaganda, and disinformation online. Now, some of those researchers are fighting back.

In the near future, a handful of AI platforms could shape the way that billions of people see the world. Already, there is evidence that large language models (LLMs)—today’s preeminent form of AI—are persuading some users to change their views. This has generated fears about chatbots’ potential to spread state propaganda. Such anxieties generally center on the prospect of major AI labs consciously designing their LLMs to favor pro-regime perspectives while suppressing dissident ones.