The artificial intelligence industry has gone on a lobbying binge in the past few years, deploying scores of hired influencers to help shape potential government action.
The growth is not surprising. The technology is being rapidly adopted by powerful sectors — health care, defense, financial services — all w
Does anyone ever look good in their passport photo? Surprisingly, some do—but it’s leading to some unexpectedly humbling outcomes.
“This is why you should never do hot photos for your passport,” influencer Alisha Marie warns in a viral TikTok. In the clip she is dressed down in a black hoodie and baseball cap, her face make-up free and apparently unrecognizable from her dolled up passport phot
The U.S. presidential election is drawing near, and social media companies are continuing to manage how their platforms are dealing with election-related content and toeing the divide between allowing misinformation and the right to free speech.
Fast Company put together a brief guide on how certain social media giants are tackling the issue heading up to what many say could be the
This story is part of a special series celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fast Company Innovation Festival.
Ask Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about his approach to innovation, and he tends to reminisce. He’ll name-check Skype Translator, the real-time language-translation tool he unveiled soon after being tapped to r
Former president Donald Trump says he wants to “save TikTok.” Just four years ago, he wanted to ban it.
On Truth Social, Trump has framed himself as TikTok’s shining knight, out to save the app from the Democrats who’d like to take it down. That’s a far cry from his stance four years ago, when he signed an executive order to ban TikTok within the U.S. citing national security concerns. So, what happened?
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A new social media app has captivated Gen Z—not by introducing something revolutionary, but by tapping into something familiar. Founder and CEO of Noplace Tiffany Zhong shares why bringing back the old-school charm of Myspace and early Facebook is proving that the past holds the key to the future of connection.
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Claude has quietly become one of the most powerful AI tools. Its most surprising and useful feature launched this summer: Projects. I can now train Claude to assist me with anything I’m wor
Google was slammed Friday by U.K. regulators who say it’s taking advantage of its dominance in digital advertising to thwart competition in Britain, ratcheting up pressure that the tech giant is facing on
The White House convened a meeting with representatives of Amazon.com, Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare, and civil society activists on Thursday in a bid to encourage U.S. tech giants to offer more digital bandwidth for government-funded internet censorship evasion tools.
The tools, supported by the U.S.-backed Open Technology Fund (OTF), have seen a surge of usage in
">Telegram boss Pavel Durov said on Friday that the messaging app would tackle criticism of its content moderation and remove some features that had been abused for illegal activity.
Durov, who was last week placed under formal in