Ina Fried

OpenAI spotted and disrupted two uses of its AI tools as part of broader Chinese influence campaigns, including one designed to spread Spanish-language anti-American disinformation. AI's potential to supercharge disinformation and speed the work of nation state-backed cyberattacks is steadily moving from scary theory to complex reality.

Elon Musk has offered to buy the operating assets of OpenAI for $97.4 billion, in a move that could turn the burgeoning AI industry on its head. Musk is puttin

Recent moves by Microsoft and Google show many business customers are balking at forking over a separate fee each month to give employees access to a work-friendly artificial intelligence chatbot. Both companies previously expressed high hopes that businesses would be willing to pay an extra $20 or $30 per employee per month for access to AI tools alongside everyday productivity apps. For business leaders, the cost-benefit analysis for this kind of AI deployment is still tricky.

Most artificial intelligence builders don't say where they are getting the data they use to train their bots and models—but legally they're required to

The same technology that puts artificial intelligence chatbots on your phone and computer is coming to the car. Having a powerful voice assistant at a time when you can't afford to take your eyes off the road could be enormously beneficial. Qualcomm announced it is bringing its next-generation Oryon processor to its in-car computer systems for both entertainment and automated driving. Generative AI in the car will ideally let drivers get help with everything from finding the nearest cheap gas to pointing out landmarks to understanding a dashboard warning light.

The arrival of on-device artificial intelligence could radically reshape the app/app-store model that has ruled the tech industry in the smartphone era. Traditionally, Apple and Google have dominated the mobile era by controlling the two major smartphone ecosystems and their associated app stores.

Meta's plan to generate synthetic content tailored to individual users opens a whole new Pandora's box in an artificial intelligence world already full of them. Generative AI has largely been used to create content at the behest of individual users, but now Facebook's parent company says it will proactively surface AI-generated posts based on users' interests. Meta said it will generate some images based on a user's interests and others that feature their likeness "so you can be the star of your own story and share your favorites with friends." The move is a logical next step for Meta, whic

A California effort to regulate artificial intelligence has divided the tech world, with some trying

Donald Trump's false charge that his opponent used artificial intelligence to forge a photo of a crowd of supporters shows yet another dimension of AI's potential to 

Aiming to fight what they see as vague and overly burdensome regulation by the European Union, U.S. tech giants are playing one of the strongest cards they have: withholding their products. Until now, the U.S. tech giants have dominated the global digital economy by serving (almost) everyone, accepting divergent regional laws as the cost of doing business.