By Clare Duffy, CNN Pope Francis wearing a massive, white puffer coat. Elon Musk walking hand-in-hand with rival GM CEO Mary Barra. Former President Donald Trump being detained by police in dramatic fashion. None of these things actually happened, but AI-generated images depicting them did go viral online over the past week. The images ranged
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy, CNN Pope Francis wearing a massive, white puffer coat. Elon Musk walking hand-in-hand with rival GM CEO Mary Barra. Former President Donald Trump being detained by police in dramatic fashion. None of these things actually happened, but AI-generated images depicting them did go viral online over the past week. The images ranged
Continue Reading By Rhea Mogul and Sania Farooqui, CNN For nearly a minute, the 4-year-old boy attempts to valiantly escape the hungry pack of stray dogs as they circle around him. The boy, who has not been publicly identified, is dragged by the pack for several feet. He strives to wrestle from their grip, but his small
Continue Reading Reuters General Motors plans to phase out widely used Apple CarPlay and Android Auto technologies that allow drivers to bypass a vehicle’s infotainment system, shifting instead to built-in infotainment systems developed with Google for future electric vehicles. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto systems allow users to mirror their smartphone screens in a vehicle’s dashboard display.
Continue Reading By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN When the Amazon Labor Union shocked the world last April by successfully forming the first US union in the e-commerce giant’s history, Chris Smalls, the president and face of the organization, celebrated by making champagne rain on the street and thanking Jeff Bezos “for going to space” while workers organized. Smalls,
Continue Reading By Jacob Lev, CNN Minor league baseball players ratified a historic first-ever collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with Major League Baseball, the Players Association announced on Friday. The MLBPA said an “overwhelming” majority of the 99% of players who cast a ballot in the decision voted to ratify the CBA. The deal will be final upon
Continue Reading By Krystal Hur, CNN After a stormy 2022, US stocks gained during the first quarter of 2023 in a surprise show of resilience despite a banking crisis, cryptocurrency meltdowns and uncertainty about what’s ahead for the economy. Still, nothing about the first quarter’s performance was linear. The broad-based S&P 500 seesawed throughout the quarter, ending
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen and Oliver Darcy, CNN Dominion Voting Systems’ historic defamation case against Fox News will proceed to a high-stakes jury trial in mid-April, a Delaware judge ruled Friday, in a major decision that dismantled several of the right-wing network’s key defenses. The judge’s decision is a painful setback for Fox News and sets
Continue Reading By Oliver Darcy and Marshall Cohen, CNN Fox News swiftly banned then-President Donald Trump’s election-denying lawyers from appearing on the right-wing channel in December 2020 after being threatened with a defamation suit, a text message made public on Friday revealed. The message was made public as part of Dominion Voting Systems’ ongoing $1.6 billion defamation
Continue Reading By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Tesla has issued a recall for 35 of its new electric Semi trucks because the parking brake might not engage when applied by the driver. Tesla is not aware of any crashes or injuries that the problem might have caused. The danger, caused by a valve module that could leak air,
Continue Reading By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business The leaders of more than 30 news organizations around the world signed a letter Thursday to the Russian ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, demanding the release of imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. “Gershkovich is a journalist, not a spy, and should be released immediately and without conditions,”
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Southwest Airlines has unveiled an “action plan” to prevent another operational meltdown like the one from last December that left 16,700 flights canceled and 2 million passengers stranded over the busy holiday travel season. The airline’s plan calls for increasing the availability of winter equipment and staffing at some airports, investing
Continue Reading By Brian Fung, CNN Half of Americans support a US government ban on TikTok, while 22% oppose the idea and more than a quarter are unsure, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Friday. The survey results — collected in the days before and after TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified before Congress on March
Continue Reading By Livvy Doherty and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN Regulators in Italy issued a temporary ban on ChatGPT Friday, effective immediately, due to privacy concerns and said they had opened an investigation into how OpenAI, the US company behind the popular chatbot, uses data. Italy’s data protection agency said users lacked information about the collection of their
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN When the Biden administration’s proposed rule for which vehicles qualify for its revamped EV tax credit goes into effect on April 18, the number of eligible cars will actually shrink. President Joe Biden and auto companies face a conundrum as they try to exponentially increase the number of electric vehicles on
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw got $9.8 million in total compensation in 2022, more than double the $4.7 million he received in 2021. Shaw was promoted to the top job in May. Shaw has been the face of the railroad since a derailment of one of its trains in East Palestine,
Continue Reading By David Goldman, CNN Three stocks with ties to former President Donald Trump surged Friday after two sources familiar with the case told CNN that Trump faces 30 counts related to business fraud in an indictment from a Manhattan grand jury. It’s not clear why investors sent shares of those companies soaring Friday, although the
Continue Reading By David Goldman, CNN Three stocks with ties to former President Donald Trump surged Friday after two sources familiar with the case told CNN that Trump faces 30 counts related to business fraud in an indictment from a Manhattan grand jury. It’s not clear why investors sent shares of those companies soaring Friday, although the
Continue Reading By Natasha Bertrand, CNN NATO has officially banned staffers from downloading the social media app TikTok onto their NATO-provided devices, citing security concerns, according to two NATO officials familiar with the matter. NATO officials sent a note to staff on Friday morning announcing the ban, the officials said. The note made the ban official, but
Continue Reading By Alicia Wallace, CNN The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge cooled back down in February after ticking up unexpectedly the month before, a welcome sign in the central bank’s long battle to bring down historic price increases. The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index rose 5% for the 12 months ended in February, lower than January’s
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