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In Los Angeles, the Homelessness Prevention Program uses predictive AI to identify individuals and families at risk of becoming homeless, offering aid to help them get stabilized and remain housed.Launched in 2021, the program has helped serve nearly 800 individuals and families at risk of becoming homeless, with 86...

Google filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a group of crypto scammers, alleging they defrauded more than 100,000 people globally.Google says it's the first among its peers to take action against crypto scammers.The company aims to use the litigation as a way to set legal precedents to protect its users.Google filed ...

Tesla shares plunged 29% in the first quarter, the worst period for the stock since the end of 2022 and the third-steepest quarterly drop on record.Investors are concerned about auto sales as the company faces increased competition from China and disruptions in Europe.According to data from S3 Partners, Tesla shorts...

Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesAnthropic on Monday debuted Claude 3, a suite of artificial intelligence models that it says are its fastest and most powerful yet. The new tools are called Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet and Haiku.The company said the most capable of the new models, Claude 3 Opus, outperformed OpenAI...

The X social media platform on Tuesday restored the account of Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, after a brief suspension.It was not immediately clear why Navalnaya's account was suspended in the first place.Upon contacting the X press team, CNBC received an automated response o...

The IMF assessed the potential impact of AI on the global labor market and found that, in most cases, AI is likely to worsen overall inequality.IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva urged policymakers to tackle this "troubling trend" and proactively take steps "to prevent the technology from further stoking social tensions...