Hello Kitty turns 50 on Friday. Befitting a pop icon at midlife, the bubble-headed, bow-wearing character's fictional birthday has brought museum exhibits, a theme park spectacle and a national tour.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned in a recent podcast that he expects "some really bad stuff to happen" because of AI. His concerns center on deepfakes and societal-scale risks.

The tug-of-war over the internet’s future escalated dramatically on Tuesday after OpenAI unveiled a new product that takes direct aim at the heart of Google’s core business: controlling the world’s ...

Around 1953, the philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin developed the concept of “speech genres”: the notion that people use language ...

ByteDance is paying for ads and partnering with influencers to promote its AI chatbot app Cici in countries like the UK, ...

They came in as bright-eyed young girls with grown voices. Brandy Norwood from Carson, California, Monica Arnold from Atlanta. One raised in the West Coast suburbs, one straight out the Dirty South.

Jane Goodall, the iconic British primatologist and conservationist who died Wednesday at age 91, once compared President Donald Trump's behavior to that of "a male chimpanzee," while also expressing ...

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The federal government shutdown has begun. The government shutdown began at midnight on Wednesday, Oct. 1, after President Donald Trump and congressional democrats failed to reach a deal over ...

WASHINGTON — Washington is bracing for what could be a prolonged federal shutdown after lawmakers deadlocked and missed the deadline for funding the government. Republicans supported a short-term ...