Matt O'Brien

Associated Press

Honda Designs Tiny EV for Children's Hospitals

September 27, 2023

Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford announces the automaker's new BlueOval Battery Park, Feb. 13, 2023, in Romulus, Mich.

Michigan Pledges More Money for $3.5B EV Battery Plant after Ford Pauses

September 27, 2023

President Joe Biden joins striking United Auto Workers on the picket line, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, in Van Buren Township, Mich.

Biden Urges Striking Auto Workers to 'Stick with It'

September 27, 2023

A technician makes adjustments to a wind turbine in Colorado.

Fossil Fuel Workers Have the Skills to Succeed in Green Jobs

September 27, 2023

How to Measure and Increase Production Efficiency?

How to Measure and Increase Production Efficiency?

Practical steps that you can take in your manufacturing business.

September 5, 2023

A visitor looks at artist Refik Anadol's 'Unsupervised' exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, in New York.

AI Tools Can Create New Images, But Who is the Real Artist?

The images generated by tools can be weird and otherworldly but also increasingly realistic.

January 19, 2023

Tesla Motors, Inc. CEO Elon Musk speaks at the Paris Pantheon Sorbonne University as part of the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris on Dec. 2, 2015. An early prototype of Tesla Inc.'s proposed Optimus humanoid robot slowly and awkwardly walked onto a stage, turned, and waved to a cheering crowd at the company's artificial intelligence event Friday, Sept. 30, 2022.

Tesla Robot Walks, Waves, But Doesn't Impress

AI researcher Filip Piekniewski called it “next level cringeworthy.”

October 3, 2022

Research engineer Teven Le Scao, who helped create the new artificial intelligence language model called BLOOM, poses for a photo, Monday, July 11, 2022, in New York.

As AI Language Skills Grow, So Do Concerns

"It looks very coherent. But it’s often wrong.”

July 18, 2022

The Twitter application is seen on a digital device, April 25, 2022, in San Diego. Twitter said Tuesday, July 12, 2022, that it has sued Elon Musk to force him to complete the $44 billion acquisition of the social media company.

Twitter Sues to Force Musk to Complete His $44B Acquisition

Twitter said Musk backed out because the deal "no longer serves his personal interests.”

July 13, 2022

Lawyers for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO made the threat in a letter to Twitter dated Monday, June 6, 2022 that the social platform included in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Musk Threatens to Walk Away from Twitter Deal

He could be on the hook for a breakup fee.

June 6, 2022

The sleek autonomous trimaran docked in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Sunday, June 5, 2022, after more than five weeks crossing the Atlantic Ocean from England, according to tech company IBM, which helped build it.

Autonomous Mayflower Reaches American Shores -- in Canada

It set off from England on April 27.

June 6, 2022

Part of the Twitter page of Elon Musk is seen on the screen of a computer in Sausalito, Calif., on Monday, April 25, 2022. The Tesla CEO gave the strongest hint yet Monday, May 16, 2022, that he would like to pay less for Twitter than his $44 billion offer made the previous month.

Musk Spars with Twitter over his Buyout Deal... on Twitter

It's increasingly clear that Musk realizes his offer was too high.

May 18, 2022

The Interpipe Steel plant in Dnipro, Ukraine, is shown on March 10, 2022.

Russia's War Disrupts Key Supply Chains, and Lives

Industries doing business with those nations are starting to feel the war's impact.

March 15, 2022

Benjamin Frey, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, led the language research behind a new smartphone interface by Lenovo-owned Motorola. The Cherokee language interface on its newest line of phones, uses the syllable-based written characters first created by the Cherokee Nation's Sequoyah in the early 1800s.

How Tech Could Help Endangered Languages Like Cherokee

Motorola introduced a Cherokee language interface on its newest line of phones.

February 28, 2022

Brian Hohmann, mechanic and owner of Accurate Automotive, in Burlington, Mass., attaches a diagnostics scan tool, center left, to a vehicle and a laptop computer, below, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, in Burlington. The diagnostics scan tool sends information from the vehicle's computer to the laptop so a mechanic can view information about the vehicle's performance.

Subaru Buyers Caught in Right-to-Repair Fight Over its Cars

Dealerships started selling its 2022 vehicles without in-car wireless technology.

February 23, 2022

Workers use equipment to remove a section of roof left on a heavily damaged Amazon fulfillment center on Dec. 11, 2021 in Edwardsville, IL.

OSHA Begins Reviewing Collapse of Amazon Warehouse Hit by Deadly Tornado

The Friday night twister left six people dead at the facility and another hospitalized.

December 14, 2021

Dr. Frida Polli, co-founder and CEO Pymetrics, talks about AI technology used to assess job skills during an interview with The Associated Press at the Pymetrics headquarters, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, in New York.

NYC Tries to Rein in AI Hiring Tools

But some AI experts and digital rights activists are concerned that it doesn’t go far enough to curb bias.

November 19, 2021

This April 23, 2018 file photo shows Rana el Kaliouby, CEO of the Boston-based artificial intelligence firm, Affectiva, poses in Boston. El Kaliouby has a new job, deputy CEO of Smart Eye — after the Swedish eye-tracking company bought Affectiva for $73.5 million in June 2021. Carmakers are looking to companies like Smart Eye as they brace for new safety rules and standards around the world that could require dashboard cameras to detect dangerous driver behavior in semi-autonomous vehicles.

Smart Eye Deputy CEO Talks Automotive AI

Carmakers are bracing for new safety rules and standards around the world that could require dashboard cameras to detect dangerous driver behavior.

July 26, 2021

In this Sept. 24, 2019, file photo a woman walks below a Google sign on the company's campus in Mountain View, Calif. A group of Google engineers announced Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, they have formed a union, creating a rare foothold for the labor movement in the tech industry.

Google Workers Form Labor Union

The tech giant suggested it won't be negotiating directly with the union.

January 4, 2021