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At age 7, Ethan Dallas began playing the online game, where he met Nate. Deadly abuse followed, said Ethan’s mother, who blames Roblox.

“There’s only so many things that you can do to redesign a glass rectangle in your pocket.”

The term has increasingly been invoked on social media after major political moments, highlighting divisions among Americans.

Eliezer Yudkowsky has spent the past 20 years warning A.I. insiders of danger. Now, he’s making his case to the public.

The start-up reached a tentative deal with Microsoft, its biggest investor, and said it would give a $100 billion stake to the nonprofit that manages it.

“The Parliament of Nepal right now is Discord,” a user said of the platform popular with video gamers, where tens of thousands are debating the nation’s future.

Social media users are spreading elaborate and entirely unsubstantiated theories about what happened to the conservative commentator.

The Federal Trade Commission said it was starting an inquiry of how six major tech companies monitor activity that could harm minors.

Enterprising students have been bringing the contraband of yesteryear to school in what they see as a “loophole” in cellphone bans.

Movers, roofing companies and others are being bombarded with phony one-star reviews on Google Maps. Then they’re asked to pay up.

The 77-year-old former banker, who lives in Toronto, said he was “shocked” by the speed at which his photograph spread online.

First posted to X, they amassed millions of views on Instagram, Threads, YouTube and Telegram within hours.

The funding covers more than half of the A.I. data centers that OpenAI plans to build in the U.S. over the next several years.

Three Republican senators sent a letter to Meta’s chief executive on Wednesday asking him to respond to whistle-blower allegations over security flaws.

The London institution is creating “RBO/Shift,” a technology festival whose first year will ask how far A.I. can push the boundaries of opera.