In speeches and demonstrations at the company's annual developer conference on Tuesday, Google executives showed off a vision for its future, where artificial intelligence helps people work, plan their lives, navigate the physical world and get answers to questions directly. It would change the way the internet works forever.

General Motors-owned self-driving car company Cruise reached a multimillion-dollar settlement this week with the pedestrian that was dragged by one of its cars in October.

Sutskever was one of the OpenAI board members who voted to remove co-founder Sam Altman as chief executive in November. Altman was reinstated days later, and Sutskever and the other directors who voted against Altman resigned from the board.

A bipartisan group of senators, including Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, will unveil a long-awaited "road map" for regulating artificial intelligence this week, directing Congress to infuse billions of dollars into research and development of the technology while addressing its potential harms.

The United States and China will hold their first high-level talks over the risks of artificial intelligence on Tuesday in Geneva, as the two governments seek to prevent disastrous accidents and unintended war amid an arms race for the emerging technology.

Last month, its CEO, Rijul Gupta, testified before a Senate subcommittee about the threat AI "deepfakes" pose to U.S. elections.

The video message from Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes warmly greeted the scores of election workers who had gathered at a Phoenix-area hotel in December for a first-of-its-kind drill: "We are very excited that all of you are here," Fontes, a Democrat, began. "You are on the front lines, and this exercise is a prime opportunity for you to hone your skills by experiencing new challenges as a team."

The Cupertino, Calif., company said a new M4 chipset used in its Pro models contains a more powerful "neural engine" to drive features in third-party apps and its own software that rely on AI and machine learning. These engines have been part of Apple's chips since 2017 but have grown considerably more powerful since then, the company said. Tim Millet, the company's vice president of platform architecture, claimed the M4's neural engine is capable of performing 38 trillion operations per second, more than doubling operations per second compared with the base-level M3 chipset found in the company's MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and iMac.

A key supplier to the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies is building a 20 million supercomputer with buzzy chipmaker Nvidia to speed deployment of artificial-intelligence capabilities across the U.S. federal government, the MITRE think tank said Tuesday.

The company said Thursday that users logging in to Microsoft 365 workplace software, Copilot, Xbox and Skype can now use "passkeys" rather than traditional passwords or an authenticator app. That means whatever biometric authentication (such as a thumbprint or face ID) you use to open your phone or computer will be all you need to access your Microsoft account. Passkeys are available on desktop and mobile browsers starting Thursday, with support for mobile apps in the coming weeks, the company said.