On April 3, 2001, Alanis Morissette and Don Henley appeared before Congress in a bid to save the music industry. Henley, the drummer and a lead vocalist for the Eagles, was dressed in a pin-striped suit. Morissette, the Grammy Award-winning singer of "You Oughta Know," wore a red top and a purple ring. Also present was Hilary Rosen, the president and C.E.O. of the Recording Industry Association of America (R.I.A.A.); Shawn Fanning, the co-founder of Napster; Ken Berry, the president and C.E.O. of EMI Recorded Music; and Dianne Feinstein, the then sixty-seven-year-old senator from California. The Senate Judiciary Committee had called the hearing because online file sharing was understood to be threatening the viability of the entire music industry, and of the future of art in America. As the sole musicians to testify, Morissette and Henley might have chosen to echo the chorus of their record-industry colleagues, bemoaning piracy and praising the R.I.A.A.'s moves to stop it.

The United States Federal Trade Commission has accused Amazon.com of enrolling millions of consumers into its paid subscription Amazon Prime service without their consent and making it hard for them to cancel, the latest action by the agency against the e-commerce giant in recent weeks. The FTC sued in Amazon in federal court in Seattle on Wednesday, alleging that "Amazon has knowingly duped millions of consumers into unknowingly enrolling in Amazon Prime." The FTC said Amazon used "manipulative, coercive or deceptive user-interface designs known as'dark patterns' to trick consumers into enrolling in automatically renewing Prime subscriptions." The lawsuit is one of several actions taken by President Joe Biden's administration intended to rein in the outsized market power of Big Tech firms as it tries to increase competition to create greater consumer protection. The FTC said Amazon Prime is the world's largest subscription programme, generating $25bn in revenue annually.

Calling the rapid growth of artificial intelligence tools a "moment of revolution," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that the government must act quickly to regulate companies that are developing it. The New York Democrat said he is working on what he calls "exceedingly ambitious" bipartisan legislation to maximize the technology's benefits and mitigate significant risks. While Schumer did not lay out details of such legislation, he offered some key goals: protect U.S. elections from AI-generated misinformation or interference, shield U.S. workers and intellectual property, prevent exploitation by AI algorithms and create new guardrails to ward off bad actors. AI legislation also should promote American innovation, Schumer said in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. "If applied correctly, AI promises to transform life on Earth for the better," Schumer said.

Fox News correspondent Molly Line has more on the search to rescue the five individuals on the Titanic voyage on'Special Report.' BOSTON – Three new vessels arrived "on-scene" in the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday morning to join search and rescue efforts for the missing OceanGate Titan sub as the estimated oxygen supply on board continues to dwindle. The U.S. Coast Guard said the new vessels bring additional tools to scan the ocean floor as they race against the clock to save the five people onboard: OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, British businessman Hamish Harding, father-and-son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, who are members of one of Pakistan's wealthiest families, and Paul-Henry Nargeolet, a former French navy officer and leading Titanic expert. "The John Cabot has side-scanning sonar capabilities and is conducting search patterns alongside the Skandi Vinland and the Atlantic Merlin," the Coast Guard said. The John Cabot is a Canadian coast guard vessel, the Atlantic Merlin is a Canadian remotely operated vehicle (ROV), and the Skandi Vinland is a commercial ROV, authorities said.

For this week's TIME100 Most Influential Companies cover story about OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, TIME's former editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal sat down with a number of company executives in early May, including two sessions with Altman, transcribed below. The conversations have been condensed and edited for clarity. Sam Altman: One thing I use it for every day is help with summarization. I can't really keep up on my inbox anymore, but I made a little thing to help it summarize for me and pull out important stuff from unknown senders, and that's very helpful. I used it to translate an article for someone I'm meeting next week, to prepare for that. This is sort of a funny thing, I used it to help me draft a tweet that I was having a hard time with. Not as much as it might have seemed from the outside.

An undated photo shows tourist submersible belongs to OceanGate descents at a sea. Search and rescue operations continue by US Coast Guard in Boston after a tourist submarine bound for the Titanic's wreckage site went missing off the southeastern coast of Canada. SEARCH FOR THE SUB – 'Underwater noises' detected by aircraft during rescue efforts for missing sub, Coast Guard says. 'SOME EXPLAINING TO DO' – GOP presidential candidate Tim Scott demands answers from Biden over Hunter plea deal. TAKING THE HOT SEAT – Durham to testify at House hearing after finding flaws in Trump-Russia investigation.

The booming popularity of AI-driven chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard has both captivated and concerned officials, who have said they are worried about again failing to protect consumers from the perils of Silicon Valley's latest craze. It's prompted lawmakers to hold a wave of public hearings and private meetings with industry leaders, researchers and advocates as they look to get their bearings in the quickly changing AI field.

For as long as there have been scientific breakthroughs and technological innovations, people have been labeling them as magic, witchcraft or the product of nefarious conspiracies directed by powerful, unseen actors. Medieval metalworkers, who transformed stone into jewelry and swords, were seen as agents of either the ruling class or the supernatural, threatening the social fabric. Many still believe that the moon landing was faked in a TV studio. More recently, conspiracy theories that falsely claimed 5G cell technology spread COVID-19 led to attacks on cell towers in the United Kingdom. Artificial intelligence is a technology ready-made for conspiratorial thinking.

U.S. Marine Corps veteran Adam Cooper is joined by Army veteran Lowell Koppert as he nears the end of his 22-hour workout and shares his'radical' pledge to bring more awareness to the issue of veteran suicides. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). As the mental health of U.S. military veterans remains a major concern among many people in our society, new technology could become a lifesaver. An AI platform developed by ClearForce, a tech company in Vienna, Virginia, aims to identify the risk of suicide among veterans before it's too late. Col. Michael Hudson, vice president at ClearForce, spoke to Fox News Digital in an interview to discuss his efforts on the veteran suicide initiative.

People in Texas sounded off on AI job displacement, with half of people who spoke to Fox News convinced that the tech will rob them of work. The growing use of artificial intelligence will likely lead to biased and discriminatory outcomes for minorities and disabled people, several groups warned the federal government this week. The National Artificial intelligence Advisory Committee, an interagency group led by the Commerce Department, held a public hearing online Tuesday aimed at informing policymakers about how the government can best manage the use of AI. Panelists were told by most of the witnesses that bias and discrimination are the biggest fears for the people they represent. Patrice Willoughby, vice president of policy and legislative affairs at the NAACP, told panelists that technology has already been used as a means to disenfranchise and mislead voters, and said her group worries about AI for the same reason.