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Spain's privacy watchdog has ordered for Worldcoin, the company created by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that scans eyeballs to make digital IDs in exchange for crypto, to cease its operations in the country for three months amid concerns over what it is doing with users' personal information.

The EU's landmark curbs on how tech titans do business online kick in from Thursday, but just how far Brussels succeeds in bringing the giants to heel will hinge on bitter battles that still lie ahead.

The world's most popular AI tools are powered by programs from OpenAI and Meta that show prejudice against women, according to a study launched on Thursday by the UN's cultural organization UNESCO.

The Better Business Bureau said Americans also lost money last year in employment scams and online purchasing scams.

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that 750 National Guard troops would be deployed in the subway system to help the NYPD conduct bag checks in an effort to keep weapons off trains.

A Chinese software engineer was arrested Wednesday for allegedly stealing artificial intelligence technology from Google while secretly working for two Chinese companies, US Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

Epic Games on Wednesday called on the EU to swiftly enforce its major new law governing big tech after Apple halted the Fortnite-maker's effort to develop a competing app store for its devices.

A Microsoft engineer is sounding alarms about offensive and harmful imagery he says is too easily made by the company's artificial intelligence image-generator tool, sending letters on Wednesday to U.S. regulators and the tech giant's board of directors urging them to take action.

US lawmakers moved Wednesday to pressure TikTok to sever ties with its Chinese parent company ByteDance or face a ban, in a broader push to keep social media apps out of foreign adversaries' control.

The EU is prepared to deploy its full arsenal to force big tech companies to change their behavior online, the bloc's competition chief said Wednesday, the day before a sweeping new law comes into force.

The changes prompted by the EU’s Digital Markets Act aren’t impressing anyone.

Europeans scrolling their phones and computers this week will get new choices for default browsers and search engines, where to download iPhone apps and how their personal online data is used.

Copyright lawsuits could redirect the future of generative AI.

Quantum computing will radically transform the application of the law—challenging long-held notions of copyright, a new study says.

Learn to claim EU261 compensation for flight disruptions like delays, cancellations, downgrades, or denied boarding!

US authorities announced sanctions Tuesday on parties associated with Intellexa Consortium, citing their role in making and distributing commercial spyware used to target US officials, journalists and others.

Another day, another multibillion-dollar regulatory fine from Europe that will barely dent the balance sheet of a technology giant. Only this time the European Commission's $2 billion penalty against Apple Inc. marks the end of an old, clunky era, and the start of a new one where trust-busters can be quicker and more efficient in policing Silicon Valley's biggest companies. Their secret weapon: a new law called the Digital Markets Act (DMA). It finally comes into force on March 6, when six companies designated as "gatekeepers" will have to comply with its 22 rules.

The proposal is meant to offer consumers more choice.

The world's biggest digital companies will be forced to comply from Thursday with strict EU rules that Brussels hopes will make the online market fairer for all.

Former top executives of Twitter sued Elon Musk on Monday saying he has failed to pay them nearly $130 million after the billionaire took over the social media company and dismissed them.