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Europe’s world-leading artificial intelligence rules …

File - A portion of Google's Bard website is shown in Glenside, Pa. on March 27, 2023. Negotiators will meet this week to hammer out details of European Union artificial intelligence rules but the process has been bogged down by a simmering last-minute battle over how to govern systems that underpin general purpose AI services like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard chatbot. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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South Korea launches its first spy satellite after rival …

In this image from video provided by SpaceX, South Korea launches its first military spy satellite from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. Using SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, it was the first of five spy satellites South Korea plans to send into space by 2025 under a contract with SpaceX. The launch took place a little over a week after North Korea claimed to put its own spy satellite into orbit for the first time as tensions rise between the rivals. (SpaceX via AP)

Pentagon forges new high-tech agreement with Australia, …

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin takes a closer look at the device used to control a swarm of drones that lifted off from a parking area at the Defense Innovation Unit in Mountain View, Calif, on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. Austin is in California for meeting with defense ministers from Australia and the United Kingdom, but took some time to see several projects under development at DIU. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)

X says Walmart pulled ads in October, weeks before Media …

FILE - A sign encouraging customers to order grocery items online and pick them up at a store is displayed at a WalMart Neighborhood Market in Bentonville, Ark., Thursday, June 4, 2015. Walmart is the latest company to join the growing flock of major advertisers to pull spending from X, Elon Musk’s beleaguered social media company, amid concerns about hate speech — as well as reaching a sizeable audience on the platform. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

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Tesla delivers 13 stainless steel Cybertruck pickups as …

File - The Tesla Cybertruck is unveiled at Tesla's design studio on Nov. 21, 2019, in Hawthorne, Calif. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is expected to give an update on manufacturing problems with long-awaited Cybertruck at an event Thursday marking the first deliveries of the futuristic, angular pickup truck. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

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New technology installed beneath Detroit street can …

An electric van drives on a street with in-road wireless charging coils below the surface in Detroit, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. A demonstration of the first electric vehicle charging road in the U.S. took place Wednesday on a quarter-mile stretch of a Motor City street. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Humanoid robots are here, but they’re a little awkward. …

Joel Carrasco performs maintenance on humanoid robot Figure 01 at Figure AI's test facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. Figure plans to start with a relatively simple use case, such as in a retail warehouse, but aims for a commercial robot that can be "iterated on like an iPhone" to perform multiple tasks to take up the work of humans as birth rates decline around the world. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Michigan to join state-level effort to regulate AI …

FILE - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at the SelectUSA Investment Summit, May 4, 2023, in Oxon Hill, Md. Campaigns will be required to clearly state that political advertisements airing in Michigan were created with the use of artificial intelligence under legislation expected to be signed in the coming days by Whitmer. The use of AI-generated deepfakes within 90 days of an election will be prohibited without a disclosure identifying the media as manipulated. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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Amazon launches Q, a business chatbot powered by …

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2019 file photo, people stand in the lobby for Amazon offices in New York. Amazon finally has its answer to ChatGPT. The tech giant said Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, it will launch Q – a generative-AI powered chatbot for businesses. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

New Google geothermal electricity project could be …

A rig operator works at Fervo Energy's geothermal drilling site near Milford, Utah, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. In Nevada, Fervo Energy's first operational project has begun pumping carbon-free electricity onto that state's electric grid to power Google data centers, Google announced Tuesday, Nov. 28. That pilot will help Fervo launch projects like this one in Utah to deliver far more carbon-free electricity to the grid. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)