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Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, right and Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt attach a Nissan badge to a car as they visit the car manufacturer Nissan, in Sunderland, England, Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. Nissan will invest more than $1.3 billion to update its factory in northeast England to make electric versions of its two best-selling cars. It's a boost for the British government as it tries to revive the country’s ailing economy. The Japanese automaker manufactures the gasoline-powered Qashqai and smaller Juke crossover vehicles at the factory in Sunderland, which employs 6,000 workers. (Ian Forsyth/Pool Photo via AP)

Nissan will invest $1.4 billion to make EV versions of its best-selling cars at its UK factory

Nissan will invest $1.4 billion to update its factory in northeast England to make electric versions of its two best-selling cars.

File - Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, gestures during an event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on Nov. 2, 2023. IBM has stopped advertising on X after a report said its ads were appearing alongside material praising Adolf Hitler and Nazis. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool, File)

IBM, EU, Disney and others pull ads from Elon Musk’s X as concerns about antisemitism fuel backlash

Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content, hate speech on the site in general or billionaire owner Elon Musk’s own posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

Apple hits setback in dispute with European Union over tax case

Apple might end up on the hook after all for billions of euros in back taxes to Ireland in the latest twist in a longrunning European Union dispute.

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, attends an in-conversation event with Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk in London, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Sunak discussed AI with Elon Musk in a conversation that is played on the social network X, which Musk owns.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)

Sunak says agreements at UK summit tip the balance in favor of humanity in fight against AI threats

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says achievements at the first international AI Safety Summit will “tip the balance in favor of humanity” in the race to contain the risks from rapid advances in cutting-edge artificial intelligence.

US Vice President Kamala Harris, with husband Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, arrives at Stansted Airport for her visit to the UK to attend the AI safety summit at Bletchley Park, in Stanstead, England, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. (Joe Giddens/PA via AP)

Countries at a UK summit pledge to tackle AI’s potentially ‘catastrophic’ risks

Delegates from 28 nations, including the U.S. and China, have agreed to work together to contain the potential “catastrophic” risks posed by galloping advances in artificial intelligence.

Cutting-edge AI raises fears about risks to humanity. Are tech and political leaders doing enough?

Chatbots like ChatGPT wowed with their ability to do tasks as good as or better than humans, thanks to cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems.

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech on AI at Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London, Thursday Oct. 26, 2023. The UK will host the first AI Safety Summit on Nov. 1 and 2 where world leaders and tech firms will convene to discuss the growing impact of AI. (Peter Nicholls/Pool via AP)

UK PM Sunak warns against rush to regulate AI before understanding its risks

As authorities around the world scramble to draw up guardrails for artificial intelligence, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warns against moving too fast on regulating the rapidly developing technology before it’s fully understood.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a panel discussion at the College of Charleston on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, in Charleston, S.C. Harris visited the state, home of Democrats' first presidential primary of 2024, as part of her tour to college campuses across the country. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Harris will attend an AI summit at a UK estate that was a base for World War II codebreakers

The U.K. prime minister is defending China’s invitation to a summit on artificial intelligence that Vice President Kamala Harris will attend next week.

EU demands Meta and TikTok detail efforts to curb disinformation from Israel-Hamas war

The European Union has demanded Meta and TikTok detail their efforts to curb illegal content and disinformation during the Israel-Hamas war.

FILE - Elon Musk, who owns Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX, speaks at the Vivatech fair, June 16, 2023, in Paris. Elon Musk’s social media platform X has begun charging a $1 fee to new users in the Philippines and New Zealand. It's a test designed to cut down on the spam and fake accounts flourishing on the platform. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Musk’s X tests $1 fee for new users in the Philippines and New Zealand in bid to target spam

Elon Musk’s social media platform X is charging a $1 fee to new users in the Philippines and New Zealand.

File - Passengers wait near a hybrid luxury SUV from China automaker Lynk&co displayed at the train station in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province on Monday, July 3, 2023. Chinese automakers are winning over drivers as they make major inroads into Europe’s electric vehicle market, challenging long-established homegrown brands in an industry that’s key to the continent’s green energy transition. The European Union has launched an investigation into Beijing’s support for its EV industry, adding to tensions between the West and China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Europe is looking to fight the flood of Chinese electric vehicles. But Europeans love them

Chinese automakers are winning over drivers as they make major inroads into Europe’s electric vehicle market.

Microsoft closes deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard after antitrust fights

Microsoft has completed its purchase of video game-maker Activision Blizzard for $69 billion, closing one of the most expensive tech acquisitions in history that could have repercussions across the video game industry.

File - Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in San Francisco, on July 28, 2023. Before it transformed into X, Twitter was the place to turn to for live and reliable information about big news events, from wars to natural disasters. But as the Israel-Hamas war has underscored, that is no longer the case. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

EU asks Musk’s X for information on hate speech and ‘illegal content’ related to Israel-Hamas war

The European Commission has made a formal, legally binding request for information from Elon Musk’s social media platform X over its handling of hate speech, misinformation and violent terrorist content related to the Israel-Hamas war.

FILE - Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, Friday, July 28, 2023. A top European Union official said Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, that the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, is the biggest source of fake news and urged owner Elon Musk to comply with the bloc's laws aimed at combating disinformation. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Musk’s X is the biggest purveyor of disinformation, EU official says

A top European Union official says the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, is the biggest source of fake news and urged owner Elon Musk to comply with the bloc’s laws aimed at combating disinformation.

Falco Kuester, a researcher at ALERTCalifornia, a program run by the University of California San Diego, looks at imagery of firefighters at a fire from one of the program's cameras, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, in San Diego. California's main firefighting agency, Cal Fire, in July started trying out an artificial intelligence system that looks for smoke from more than 1,000 mountaintop cameras feeds. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

The threat of wildfires is rising. So are new artificial intelligence solutions to fight them

Wildfires fueled by climate change have ravaged communities from Maui to the Mediterranean this summer, killing many people, exhausting firefighters and fueling demand for new solutions.

FILE - A sign outside the Activision building in Santa Monica, Calif., June 21, 2023. British competition regulators signaled Friday, Sept. 22 that Microsoft’s restructured $69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard is likely to receive antitrust approval by next month's deadline. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Microsoft’s revamped $69 billion deal for Activision is on the cusp of going through

British competition regulators has signaled that Microsoft’s restructured $69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard is likely to receive antitrust approval.

FILE - This photo shows the mobile phone app logos for, from left, Facebook and Instagram in New York, Oct. 5, 2021. British lawmakers have on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023 approved an ambitious but controversial new internet safety law with wide-ranging powers to crack down on digital and social media companies like TikTok, Google and Facebook and Instagram parent Meta. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)

UK’s new online safety law adds to crackdown on Big Tech companies

British lawmakers have approved an ambitious but controversial new internet safety law with wide-ranging powers to crack down on digital and social media companies like TikTok, Google and Facebook and Instagram parent Meta.

FILE - The icon for the video sharing TikTok app is seen on a smartphone, on Feb. 28, 2023. Republican presidential hopefuls have largely shunned TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing app that many conservatives accuse of being a spy mechanism for China. But entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy recently became the first 2024 candidate to join the platform, which has over 150 million U.S. users. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

TikTok is hit with $368 million fine under Europe’s strict data privacy rules

European regulators have slapped TikTok with a $368 million fine for failing to protect children’s privacy.

FILE - A USB-C cable is pictured in San Jose, Calif. Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Apple is ditching its in-house iPhone charging plug and falling in line with the rest of the tech industry by adopting USB-C, a more widely used connection standard. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

What is USB-C, the charging socket that replaced Apple’s Lightning cable?

Apple is ditching its in-house iPhone charging plug and falling in line with the rest of the tech industry by adopting USB-C, a more widely used connection standard.

FILE - A woman walks past a closed Apple Store in Lille, northern France, Monday, March 16, 2020. A French watchdog ordered Apple to withdraw the iPhone 12 from the market because it is emitting too high levels of electromagnetic radiation. The National Frequencies Agency (ANFR), the body monitoring public exposure to radiations, called on Apple to "implement all available means to rapidly fix this malfunction," in a statement released on Tuesday Sept.12, 2023. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)

The iPhone 12 emits too much radiation and Apple must take it off the market, French agency says

French regulators have ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12, saying it emits electromagnetic radiation levels that are above European Union standards for exposure.

FILE - A smartphone displays the apps for Facebook and Messenger in New Orleans, Aug. 11, 2019. The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, temporarily blocked a lower court order curbing Biden administration efforts to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

EU targets Apple, Amazon, Meta and other Big Tech in next phase of digital crackdown

The European Union is targeting six Big Tech companies including Amazon, Apple and Microsoft under new digital rules aimed at reining in the market power of online companies.

Microsoft to stop packaging Teams and Office software in Europe to head off EU antitrust action

Microsoft will stop packaging its Teams videoconferencing app with its Office software in Europe in an effort to head off antitrust penalties by regulators.

Europe is cracking down on Big Tech. This is what will change when you sign on

Starting Friday, Europeans will see their online life change. People in the 27-nation European Union can alter some of what shows up when they search, scroll and share on the biggest social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram and Facebook and other tech giants like Google and Amazon.

FILE - A sign outside the Activision building in Santa Monica, Calif., June 21, 2023. Microsoft revamped its bid to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard on Tuesday Aug. 22, 2023, to appease British competition regulators, who are the last major hurdle to closing one of the biggest deals in tech history. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Microsoft budges on video game streaming rights in push for UK to approve Activision Blizzard deal

British competition regulators have opened a new investigation into Microsoft’s revamped bid to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard.

Europe’s sweeping rules for tech giants have kicked in. Here’s how they work

Google, Facebook, TikTok and other Big Tech companies operating in Europe must comply with one of the most far-reaching efforts to clean up what people see online.

FILE - Local residents try to extinguish a fire, near the seaside resort of Lindos, on the Aegean Sea island of Rhodes, southeastern Greece, on July 24, 2023. Greece’s resort island of Rhodes is nursing its wounds after 11 days of devastating wildfires. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Heat and wildfires put southern Europe’s vital tourism earnings at risk

Greece’s resort island of Rhodes is nursing its wounds after 11 days of devastating wildfires. The July blazes, fed by heat waves, forced 20,000 people to evacuate during the height of tourist season.

Elon Musk reveals new ‘X’ logo to replace Twitter’s blue bird

Elon Musk has unveiled a new “X” logo to replace Twitter’s famous blue bird as he follows through with a major rebranding of the social media platform he bought for $44 billion last year.

This undated handout photo shows British political candidate Andrew Gray in Selby and Ainsty, England. Gray, who's running in a special election on Thursday, July 20, 2023 used artificial intelligence to come up with campaign promises that he says reflect what residents want. Gray, who says he has no policies of his own, crowdsourced constituents' sentiments and used machine learning to come up with his political manifesto.(Tim Cook/Campaign for Andrew Gray via AP)

British political candidate uses artificial intelligence to draw up election manifesto

An independent candidate for a U.K. Parliament has turned to artificial intelligence to come up with his campaign promises.

FILE - Visitors passing an advertisement for the video game 'Call of Duty' at the Gamescom fair for computer games in Cologne, Germany, Aug. 22, 2017. Microsoft has signed an agreement with Sony to keep the “Call of Duty” video game series on PlayStation following the tech giant’s acquisition of the video game maker Activision Blizzard. The announcement was made Sunday, July 16, 2023 in a Twitter post by Phil Spencer, who heads up Microsoft’s Xbox. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Microsoft and UK regulators win more time to resolve blocked $69 billion Activision deal

Microsoft and British regulators won more time from a court Monday as the U.S. tech company uses a rare second chance to overcome opposition to its $69 billion bid for video game maker Activision Blizzard.

Amazon pushes back against Europe’s pioneering new digital rules

Amazon is disputing its status as an online platform subject to stricter scrutiny under European Union digital rules taking effect next month.